AP Definitive Source | AP's 2023 Pulitzer Prize-winning photos

AP won the Pulitzer Prize for public service for courageous reporting from the besieged city of Mariupol that bore witness to the slaughter of civilians in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

The photos comprising the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography are featured in the slideshow below:

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Ukrainian emergency workers carry an injured pregnant woman outside of a bombed maternity hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine, March 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

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Ukrainians huddle under a destroyed bridge as they try to flee by crossing the Irpin River on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, March 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

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Natali Sevriukova stands near her house after a rocket attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, Feb. 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

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An apartment building explodes after Russian army tank fire in Mariupol, Ukraine, March 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

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Medical workers unsuccessfully try to save the life of Marina Yatsko's 18-month-old son Kirill, who was fatally wounded by shelling, at a hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine, March 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

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Lifeless bodies of men, some with their hands tied behind their backs lie on the ground in Bucha, Ukraine, April 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

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Nadiya Trubchaninova, 70, cries while holding the coffin of her son Vadym, 48, who was killed by Russian soldiers in Bucha, during his funeral in the cemetery of Mykulychi, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, April 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

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The body of an unidentified man lies on a road barrier near a village retaken by Ukrainian forces on the outskirts of Kharkiv, Ukraine, April 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

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Volodymyr, 66, injured from a strike, sits on a chair in his damaged apartment in Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, July 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

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A dog stands next to the body of an elderly woman killed inside a home in Bucha on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, April 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

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A woman walks amid destroyed Russian tanks in Bucha, in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, April 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

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A resident wounded in a Russian attack lies in an ambulance before being taken to a hospital in Kherson, Ukraine, Nov. 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

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Anastasia Ohrimenko, 26, is comforted by relatives and friends as she mourns the loss of her husband, Yury Styglyuk, a Ukrainian serviceman who died in combat on August 24 in Maryinka, Donetsk, during his funeral in Bucha, Ukraine, Aug. 31, 2022. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

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Bodies are lowered into a mass grave on the outskirts of Mariupol, Ukraine, as people cannot bury their dead because of the heavy shelling by Russian forces, March 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

The Pulitzer was awarded on unique and urgent images from the first weeks of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, including the devastation of Mariupol after other news organizations left, victims of targeting of civilian infrastructure and the resilience of the Ukrainian people who were able to flee.

AP was named a finalist in the breaking news photography category for a compelling visual narrative documenting public fury over Sri Lanka’s economic collapse, including clashes between protesters and police, the takeover of government buildings and jubilation as protesters occupied the plush presidential mansion.

The photos are available in the slideshow below:

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Sri Lankans shout anti government slogans blocking the entrance to president's office during a protest in Colombo, Sri Lanka, April 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

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An injured protestor grieves in pain as police fire tear gas to disperse protesting members of the Inter University Students Federation during an anti government protest in Colombo, Sri Lanka, May 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

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An injured student is carried by colleagues as police fire tear gas and water cannons to disperse protesting members of the Inter University Students Federation during an anti government protest in Colombo, Sri Lanka, May 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

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Protesters storm the Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe's office, demanding he resign after President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled the country amid economic crisis in Colombo, Sri Lanka, July 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

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Protesters swim as onlookers wait at a swimming pool in president's official residence a day after it was stormed in Colombo, Sri Lanka, July 10, 2022. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

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People throng President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's official residence for the second day after it was stormed in Colombo, Sri Lanka, July 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

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A protester holds a portrait of former Sri Lankan prime minister Mahinda Rajapaksa upside down after storming Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe's office, demanding he resign after president Rajapaksa fled the country amid economic crisis in Colombo, Sri Lanka, July 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

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Protesters react after storming the Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe's office, demanding he resign after president Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled the country amid economic crisis in Colombo, Sri Lanka, July 13, 2022. (AP Photo/ Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

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An injured protester reacts in pain as he is shifted to hospital in an ambulance during clashes with police near parliament in Colombo, Sri Lanka, July 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

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People use gym equipment as they take over President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's official residence on the second day after it was stormed in Colombo, Sri Lanka, July 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

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A protester sits on a chair surrounded by others after storming the Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe's office, demanding he resign after president Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled the country amid economic crisis in Colombo, Sri Lanka, July 13, 2022. (AP Photo/ Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

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A Sri Lankan protester waves the national flag from the rooftop of Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe's office, demanding he resign after president Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled the country amid economic crisis in Colombo, Sri Lanka, July 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

AP was also named a finalist in the feature photography category for images capturing the vulnerability, trauma and defiance of elderly Ukrainians caught in the Russian invasion, many of them unable or unwilling to flee the carnage.

The photos are available in the slideshow below:

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Motria Oleksiienko, 99 years old and traumatized by the Russian occupation, is comforted by her daughter-in-law, Tetiana Oleksiienko, in a room without heating in the village of Andriivka, Ukraine, as heavy fighting continues between Russian and Ukrainian forces, April 6, 2022. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

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Elderly people are evacuated from a hospice in Chasiv Yar city, Donetsk district, Ukraine, April 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

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Valerii Ilchenko, 70, who lives alone and is refusing to evacuate, watches television in his apartment, in Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine, July 6, 2022. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

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Dr. Yurii Kuznetsov, left, helps nurses to move an elderly patient onto a bed at the hospital in Izium, Ukraine, Sept. 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

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A Ukrainian elderly woman eats a slice of bread inside a crowded Lviv railway station, Monday, Feb. 28, 2022, in Lviv, west Ukraine. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

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Viktor Holodeyev, 76, left, is tended to by a nurse while on an evacuation train with his wife, Tatiana, 72, as they depart from Pokrovsk, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, to travel west to a safer part of the country, Aug. 2, 2022. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

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Ukrainian injured servicemen and an injured civilian wait for medical treatment in the Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Tuesday, June 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

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Elderly residents are evacuated by a local organization from the southern city of Kherson, Ukraine, Nov. 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

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Patients eat a meal in a shelter for injured and homeless people in Izium, Ukraine, Sept. 26, 2022. A young Ukrainian boy with disabilities, 13-year-old Bohdan, is now an orphan after his father, Mykola Svyryd, was taken by cancer in the devastated eastern city of Izium. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

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A woman reacts after receiving food donations from World Central Kitchen in Kherson, in southern Ukraine, Nov. 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

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Vasyl Nevolov, an internally displaced Ukrainian from Kyiv, rests inside a theatre in the city of Drohobych, western Ukraine, March 21, 2022. (AP Photo /Bernat Armangue)

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Elena Holovko sits among debris while being helped outside her house that was damaged after a missile strike in Druzhkivka, eastern Ukraine, June 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

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An elderly man in a bed at a hospice in Chasiv Yar city, Donetsk district, Ukraine, April 18, 2022. At least 35 men and women, some in wheelchairs and most of them with mobility issues, were helped by volunteers to flee from the region that has been under attack. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

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A man looks at buildings destroyed during Russian attacks on Borodyanka on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, June 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

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Catherine, 70, holds a candle in the window of her home during a power outage in Borodyanka, Kyiv region, Ukraine, Oct. 20, 2022, two days after Russian airstrikes cut power and water supplies to hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)