In early 2022, Jevhen Maloletka was covering the violence in Kazakhstan when reports began to emerge that Russia was preparing an invasion of his homeland.
His attention was turned back home, and on behalf of the American news agency AP, he returned home and instead began monitoring developments in Kharkiv and later in the port city of Mariupol.
Russia released 60 robots over various parts of Ukraine on December 16, 2022. Here, a woman is seen in front of a destroyed house in the city of Kryvyi Rih.
Photo: Evgeny Maloletka/AP/TT
One of his most noted images depicts a pregnant woman being carried on a stretcher after a maternity hospital in Mariupol was bombed.
The woman was taken to another hospital, but did not survive, the AP reported in March 2022.
At the start of the war, Maloletka and other AP staff were able to follow the invasion of Mariupol for 20 days until they were told they were being hunted by Russia for publishing detailed accounts of the suffering in the city, writes The Guardian.
Since then, the photographer has also covered the war in places such as Kharkiv, Donbas, Kherson and Kyiv.
Photographer Jevhen Maloletka flees a burning wheat field in the Kharkiv region in July 2022. Photo: Mstyslav Chernov/AP/TT