SAMYA KULLAB

Ukraine reporter

Kullab is an Associated Press reporter covering Ukraine since June 2023. Before that, she covered Iraq and the wider Middle East from her base in Baghdad since joining the AP in 2019.
In this combination of file photos, President Donald Trump, left, and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, center, are seen at the Elysee Palace, Dec. 7, 2024 in Paris, and President Vladimir Putin, right, addresses a Technology Forum in Moscow, Russia, Feb. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard, left and center, Pavel Bednyakov, right)
Ukraine and Russia have conditions that could affect a ceasefire. What are they willing to concede?
 
In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, a fire engine and school buses burn after a Russian drone hit them when firefighters were putting out the fire at a lyceum following Russian drone attack in Bohodukhiv, Kharkiv region, Ukraine, Saturday, March 15, 2025. (Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP)
Russia and Ukraine trade overnight aerial attacks after Putin sets out conditions for ceasefire
 
In this image made from video released by the Russian Presidential Press Service, on Wednesday, March 12, 2025, Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, shakes hands with Russian Chief of General Staff Gen. Valery Gerasimov as he visits military headquarters in the Kursk region of Russia. (Russian Presidential Press Service via AP)
Ukraine loses a ceasefire bargaining chip as its troops cede ground in Russia
 
Ukrainian serviceman of Khartia brigade known by call sign "Krystal" fires M101 Howitzer towards Russian positions in Kharkiv region, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Babenko)
US arms flow to Ukraine again as the Kremlin mulls a ceasefire proposal
 
French President Emmanuel Macron, second left, , shakes hands with Colonel-General Ruslan Khomchak, First Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, as French Defense Minister Sebastien Lecornu, right, and Chief of Staff of the French Armed Forces Thierry Burkhard, left, look on during a meeting on the conflict in Ukraine at the Musee de la Marine as part of the Paris Defense and Strategy Forum in Paris, Tuesday, March 11, 2025. (Sarah Meyssonnier/Pool via AP)
Deterrence is a key issue as army chiefs from 30-plus countries talk about a Ukraine force
 
Ukrainian servicemen fire a M777 howitzer towards Russian positions at the front line near Donetsk, Ukraine, Monday, March 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Roman Chop)
Ukraine will struggle to strike targets inside Russia without US intelligence
 
Vice President JD Vance, center right, speaks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, center left, as President Donald Trump, center, listens in the Oval Office at the White House, Friday, Feb. 28, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/ Mystyslav Chernov)
Zelenskyy calls Oval Office spat with Trump ‘regrettable,’ says he’s ready to work for Ukraine peace
 
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy takes part in a plenary during the Securing our Future Summit on Ukraine and European security at Lancaster House in London, Sunday, March 2, 2025. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press via AP)
Without US help, Zelenskyy has few options except to repair his relationship with the White House
 
Steel melting workers chat at work at the Zaporizhstal Iron and Steelworks, one of the country's largest steel plants, in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
Trump’s tariffs expose Ukraine’s steel industry to another war
 
An aerial view of an ilmenite open pit mine in a canyon in the central region of Kirovohrad, Ukraine, Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
In Ukraine, a potential arms-for-minerals deal inspires hope and skepticism
 
President Donald Trump meets with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at Trump Tower, Sept. 27, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File)
The US and Ukraine are closing in on a mineral deal. What changed, and what comes next?
 
In this image provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, firefighters put out a fire following a Russian missile attack on the country's energy system in Dnipropetrovsk region, Ukraine, Dec. 25, 2024. (Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP, File)
Russian attacks near Ukrainian nuclear infrastructure heighten scrutiny of Kyiv’s preparedness
 
Ukrainian servicemen of 148th artillery brigade fire by a M777 howitzer towards Russian positions at the frontline on Velyka Novosilka direction, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Jan. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Ukrainian troops losing ground to Russia as Trump talks of ending war
 
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy gestures as he speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, Feb. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
Takeaways from the AP interview with Ukraine’s Zelenskyy
 
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy gestures as he speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, Feb. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
AP Interview: Zelenskyy says excluding Ukraine from US-Russia talks about war is ‘very dangerous’
 
In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, rescuers carry the body of a civilian who was killed when a Russian drone hit a city food factory in Mykolaiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025. (Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP)
Western officials warn Ukraine over weapons procurement dispute
 
Solar panels system funded by United States Agency for International Development (USAID) are seen in the Lebanese-Syrian border town of Majdal Anjar, eastern Bekaa valley, Lebanon, Nov. 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein, File)
A US shutdown on foreign aid is hitting worldwide. Rubio adds more exemptions
 
In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, left, shakes hands with President of Moldova Maia Sandu in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, Jan. 25, 2025. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)
US has not stopped military aid to Ukraine, Zelenskyy says
 
A Ukrainian brigade fires a self-propelled howitzer toward Russian front-line positions in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine on Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Europe considers sending troops to Ukraine if there’s a ceasefire. But would Russia accept?
 
Soccer players of AMP FC Kyiv and Pokrova FC-2 play during the first football tournament for war-wounded amputees in Kyiv, Ukraine, Jan. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Ukraine holds first soccer tournament for war-wounded amputees — and plans to go international
 
According to this photo taken from video distributed by the Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Monday, Jan. 13, 2025, a Ukrainian tank burns after being hit by a Russian drone near the settlement of Vozdvizhenka, eastern Ukraine. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)
Russian forces bypass a key stronghold in a bid to cut off its supplies, a Ukrainian officer says
 
During a funeral ceremony in Irpin, the Kyiv region of Ukraine, on Nov. 21, serviceman Roman bids farewell to a comrade from the 47th Brigade -- Serhii Solovyov -- who was killed during fighting with Russian Forces in Kursk on November 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)
Bloodied Ukrainian troops risk losing more hard-won land in Kursk to Russia
 
Injured Ukrainian servicemen arrive from the battlefield at Medical Service "Ulf" of the 108th Separate Battalion "Da Vinci Wolves" on Pokrovsk direction, Ukraine, Monday, Dec. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Ukraine’s military intelligence says North Korean troops are suffering heavy battlefield losses
 
A serviceman of the 13th Brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine fires Giatsint-B gun towards Russian positions near Kharkiv, Ukraine, on Nov. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)
Ukraine and US say some North Korean troops have been killed fighting alongside Russian forces
 
Ukrainian drone hits Russia’s Chechnya as Kyiv continues pushback after Moscow bombardment
 
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in his office in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, April 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)
Ukraine’s reformed military procurement agency drives the country’s NATO ambitions
 
FILE - Ukrainian soldiers carry shells to fire at Russian positions on the front line, near the city of Bakhmut, in Ukraine's Donetsk region, on March 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)
Desertion threatens to starve Ukraine’s forces at a crucial time in its war with Russia
 
Fragments of a rocket which struck Dnipro on November 21 are seen at a center for forensic analysis in undisclosed location, Ukraine, Sunday Nov. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Ukraine shows AP the wreckage of a new experimental Russian missile
 
In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Services on Nov. 19, 2024, rescue workers clear the rubble of a residential building destroyed by a Russian strike in Hlukhiv, Ukraine. (Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP)
The week that upped the stakes of the Ukraine war
 
In this photo provided by Ukraine's 24th Mechanised Brigade press service, servicemen of the 24th Mechanised Brigade prepare to fire 2s5 self-propelled 152mm howitzer towards Russian positions near Chasiv Yar, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Monday, Nov. 18, 2024. (Oleg Petrasiuk/Ukrainian 24th Mechanised Brigade via AP)
US to give antipersonnel mines to Ukraine to help slow the Russian advance
 
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