Timeline: A look at key moments in a year of war between Russia and Ukraine

In just a year, NATO has moved from cautiously providing non-lethal support to Ukraine to exhorting allies to send heavier and more high-tech weapons.

The price of natural gas used to heat homes and generate electricity plunged this year thanks to a mild winter in the U.S. and Europe, bringing some relief to consumers and helping drive down inflation.

One year after Russia invaded Ukraine, the global economy is still enduring the consequences — low supplies of grain, fertilizer and energy along with more inflation and economic uncertainty. But it could have been worse.

The audio intercepts obtained by the AP show how deeply unprepared young soldiers — and their country — were for the war to come.

As Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine struggles into its second year, his transformation of Russian society is in overdrive.

Audio intercepts obtained of conversations between Russian soldiers in Ukraine and their loved ones give an intimate glimpse of how ordinary men found themselves condoning atrocities and turning into killers.

Battles stepped up in recent weeks near Kupiansk, a strategic town on the eastern edge of Kharkiv province by the banks of the Oskil River.

Former Soviet satellite Slovakia has been a NATO member since 2004, but the reality of belonging to the world’s biggest military alliance really kicked in after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine a year ago.

Ukraine's military is focused on one task: removing Russian soldiers from the battlefield. But faced with a foe whose ranks are known to be riddled with unwilling fighters, Ukrainian military strategists realized there might be more than one means to that end.

Ukraine's military is focused on one task: removing Russian soldiers from the battlefield. But faced with a foe whose ranks are known to be riddled with unwilling fighters, Ukrainian military strategists realized there might be more than one means to that end.

Ukrainians continue to suffer the consequences of Russia's invasion in the war-scarred city of Izium in Ukraine's northeast. 

Western sanctions have hit Russian banks, wealthy individuals and technology imports. But after a year of far-reaching restrictions aimed at degrading Moscow's war chest, economic life for ordinary Russians doesn't look all that different than it did before the invasion of Ukraine.

A possible trial of any Russians at the ICC remains a long way off, as Moscow does recognize the court's jurisdiction — a position reaffirmed earlier this week by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov — and does not extradite its nationals .

With bandaged heads and splinted limbs, the wounded soldiers are stretchered into the waiting medical evacuation bus by members of the Hospitallers, a Ukrainian organization of volunteer paramedics who work on the front lines in the war in Ukraine. 

The damage to Ukraine’s metal industry has crippled a lucrative sector and key employer needed to support an economy cratered by war.

The caravan of vehicles tears across the muddy grass next to the playground. The curious — children, parents and other residents — gather around. Car doors swing open, and heavily armed guards spill out. And just like that, he is among them: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, wartime leader and his country's chief morale officer.