Emmanuel PEUCHOT

Local residents clean the street from broken glass that fell down from the windows of their apartments and shops after Russian rocket attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, August 30, 2023. Efrem Lukatsky/AP)

August 30, 2023, 7:28 pm

Ukraine says gains on southern front pave way for push to Crimea

Foreign minister lauds recapture of Robotyne village as strategic victory; two killed in countrywide Russian barrage; Ukrainian drones destroy 4 military planes deep inside Russia

By Emmanuel PEUCHOT

Ukrainian servicemen light a fire with gun powder to get warm near the city of Bakhmut in the region of Donbas on March 5, 2023, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Aris Messinis / AFP)

March 6, 2023, 8:03 pm

Ukraine moves to fortify embattled Bakhmut frontline as Russia closes in

Kyiv’s forces fighting to retain control of the salt-mining town say its capture by Russia is inevitable and that some units have already begun to pull back

By Thibault MARCHAND and Emmanuel PEUCHOT

A Ukrainian serviceman from the State Border Guard Service in Bakhmut on February 9, 2023. (Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP)

February 11, 2023, 2:50 am

Russian airstrikes pound Ukraine as Biden announces visit to neighbor Poland

US president headed to Europe to mark 1-year since start of war; half of Kremlin’s tanks believed destroyed or captured; Zelensky calls to bar Russia from next Olympics

By Emmanuel PEUCHOT

A Ukrainian policeman speaks on his phone next to a poster (R, up) calling on residents to denounce those who collaborated with the Russian forces during their occupation of the city, Kherson, December 8, 2022, (Genya SAVILOV/AFP)

December 11, 2022, 9:39 am

‘Every one of them will be punished’: Kherson hunts for collaborators with Russia

Ukrainian authorities keep tight control over southern city after its liberation, remain on lookout for traitors over fear they may still be spying for former occupiers

By Emmanuel PEUCHOT

A woman takes water from the Dnipro River to use it for cleaning, in Kherson, November 14, 2022, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by BULENT KILIC / AFP)

November 15, 2022, 8:00 pm

With supply sabotaged by retreating Russians, Kherson residents get water from river

Locals resort to relying on Dnipro’s yellowish water for cleaning, as power infrastructure also damaged by fleeing pro-Moscow forces

By Emmanuel PEUCHOT

This photograph taken on October 31, 2022, shows a view of a burnt residental building after shelling in the frontline town of Bakhmut, in eastern Ukraine's Donetsk region, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by Dimitar DILKOFF / AFP)

November 1, 2022, 1:59 am

Ukraine hit with sweeping blackouts, water cuts after Russian missile strikes

Ukrainian army says more than 50 cruise missiles launched at targets across country, knocking out key infrastructure

By Emmanuel PEUCHOT

Kyiv residents fill plastic containers and bottles at a water pump in one of the parks in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on October 31, 2022 (SERGEI CHUZAVKOV / AFP)

October 31, 2022, 2:22 pm

80% of Kyiv residents without water after Russian barrage targets infrastructure

Many homes in Ukraine capital lack power; Ukraine army says over 50 cruise missiles fired at country, days after Russia blamed Ukraine for drone attacks on Black Sea fleet

By Emmanuel PEUCHOT

Russian troops guard an entrance of the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Station on the Dnieper River in Kherson region, south Ukraine, on May 20, 2022. (AP Photo, File)

October 21, 2022, 8:09 am

Ukraine: Russia plans to destroy hydro dam, with potentially catastrophic results

Zelensky says Russian troops have mined Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant; if destroyed, hundreds of thousands of people would be endangered by rapid flooding

By Emmanuel PEUCHOT

A photograph shows Kyiv late on October 11, 2022, during a rolling blackout of parts of districts of the Ukrainian capital following rocket attacks on critical infrastructures in the evening, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Eugene KOTENKO / AFP)

October 18, 2022, 2:45 pm

Zelensky: Russian strikes destroyed around 30% of Ukraine’s power stations in a week

Ukrainian president says repeated targeting of energy infrastructure is a form of terror attack; some hospitals running on backup generators

By Emmanuel PEUCHOT

A soldier of Ukraine's 5th Regiment of Assault Infantry sits in their bunker at a front line near Toretsk in the Donetsk region on October 12, 2022, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP)

October 12, 2022, 9:42 pm

Kyiv says it reclaimed new territory as Russia pounds Ukrainian cities

NATO chief says after Russia’s missile barrage that Ukraine’s Western allies are looking to provide it with more air defenses to protect against ‘indiscriminate’ attacks

By Emmanuel PEUCHOT and Sergey BOBOK

Women walk past a destroyed apartment building in Mariupol, in territory under the government of the Donetsk People's Republic, eastern Ukraine, Monday, May 2, 2022. (AP/Alexei Alexandrov)

May 3, 2022, 1:52 am

Russia intensifies assault on Ukraine’s east as US warns of annexation plan

Official says ‘sham referenda’ likely to take place in mid-May; Odessa shelling kills teen as evacuation from Mariupol steel plant hampered by shelling

By Joshua MELVIN and Emmanuel PEUCHOT

People watch flames coming out of an appartement in a residential building of the northern outskirts of Kharkiv following shelling, on April 22, 2022. (Sergey Bobok/AFP)

April 23, 2022, 4:57 pm

In Kharkiv, residents try to maintain normalcy amid regular Russian attacks

Moscow has failed to capture Ukraine’s second-largest city but it remains within artillery range, subject to random devastating strikes at any hour, day or night

By Emmanuel PEUCHOT

A photograph taken from Novodruzhesk village, shows smoke rising in Rubizhne city, on April 18, 2022, on the 54th day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP)

April 19, 2022, 6:46 am

Russia’s Donbas offensive advances with fall of Kreminna

Russian troops take small city of 18,000 after three days of fighting, bringing invasion force a step closer to capital of Ukrainian-controlled Donbas

By Emmanuel PEUCHOT

The Mariupol theater, damaged during fighting in Mariupol, in territory under the government of the Donetsk People's Republic, eastern Ukraine, on April 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Alexei Alexandrov)

April 11, 2022, 8:30 pm

Ukraine braces for fall of Mariupol, broader Russian assault on east

With war grinding toward 7th week, Ukrainian forces say they’re bolstering positions ahead of anticipated Russian effort to link Crimea with Moscow-backed separatist territories

By Emmanuel PEUCHOT