Today is one year after the liberation of Kherson. The past couple of weeks I spent in Kherson and its region seeing how now life looks like for the people there. October/November 2023, Kherson. for AFP Photo

Polémique sur la dénomination du Hamas : Auditionné au Sénat, le PDG de l'AFP News Agency tape du poing sur la table, "On monte en épingle un sujet depuis des semaines, c’est quand même dingue. À aucun moment on ne nie les atrocités du 7 octobre !"

'Lost diamonds': Rare Russian books stolen from European libraries Great story by Magda Paciorek for AFP News Agency sg.news.yahoo.com/lost-diamonds-… via @yahoosg

Kyiv, Ukraine. November 29, 2023 📸by AFP News Agency's Roman Pilipey

You are missed my dear friend.

#FreeEvan now ! #Russia knows full well he’s an innocent journalist from The Wall Street Journal , not a spy or a criminal. One day in prison was too much, and now it’s been a year. Love you man Evan Gershkovich . Miss you. Artwork by @SofiyaVoznaya

Free Evan!

In this photograph that I took in early April 2024 is Serhii, an infantryman at the moment he was waiting to go to the frontline Shortly afterwards, the photo was published on the front page of Liberation, but Serhii would never see it. He was killed in action later that month.

Evan unimpressed by the farce that Russia calls his trial. Unbreakable. It is time to get him out already

Evan should be back with his family, doing what he does best in his newsroom, on the football pitch, cooking delicious things and so much more. And not here

Charred Soviet-era housing blocs dot #Toretsk. Shelling echoes in its emptying streets. Black smoke rises over the horizon. "People get used to everything, even this," one resident told AFP News Agency. 📷 by Roman Pilipey 🎥by Andrii Kalchenko rfi.my/AjKS.X via RFI English

Compared with others in war-scarred eastern Ukraine, the mining town of Toretsk was in a relatively sleepy sector of the frontline. Then suddenly, the Russian assaults began. A great selection of work by Roman Pilipey for AFP News Agency in The Guardian. theguardian.com/artanddesign/g…

In The Guardian with my photo reportage for AFP Photo AFP News Agency from Toretsk, a mining town in the Donetsk region that is now under heavy attack by Russia with its scorched-earth assault tactics. theguardian.com/artanddesign/g…

Immensely proud to say my work on the devastating human cost of the war in Ukraine is a finalist for the Bayeux Calvados-Normandy Award for War Correspondents again this year! It includes this deep dive into life (and death) inside occupied Ukraine 1/3 telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…

After six years of on-off working on it, this thing is finally finished and coming out in April!

VIDEO: The effects of a warming planet are particularly visible in Central Asia, which has seen a wave of extreme weather disasters. Now, the melting of Kyrgyz glaciers has become a major threat to people in the landlocked region that already suffers from a shortage of water.

Spent a couple of months working on this longread about Pablo González / Pavel Rubtsov, the Spanish journalist accused of being a GRU spy. Hopefully it goes some way to answering a few of the questions around Pablo. theguardian.com/world/2024/oct…

VIDEO: Secret trains are evacuating wounded Ukrainian soldiers to hospitals, far away from the frontline. The trains themselves also serve as medical facilities where these servicemen can be treated whilst travelling to safe locations. #AFPVertical

Toxic towns in Kyrgyzstan battling radioactive danger. Three decades on from independence, Kyrgyzstan is still dealing with the consequences of the Cold War nuclear arms race, when Central Asia provided the Soviet Union with all of its uranium u.afp.com/5HPo