Evgeniy Maloletka

Evgeniy Maloletka is a Pulitzer Prize-winning Ukrainian photojournalist covering the Russia-Ukraine war for The Associated Press.

Alongside AP video journalist Mstyslav Chernov and field producer Vasilisa Stepanenko, Maloletka documented the fall of Mariupol in 2022, and served as the only international media inside the besieged city. The team’s reporting in Mariupol earned the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. The reporting was later made into the highly acclaimed documentary film “20 Days in Mariupol”.

Maloletka started his career in 2009 as a staff photographer for local Ukrainian news agencies UNIAN and PHL. He went on to cover the 2014 Ukrainian Revolution, and the conflicts in Crimea and Eastern Ukraine, for various international media outlets. His work has been published and aired in TIME, The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN and BBC, among others.

Maloletka is from Eastern Ukraine and is based in Kyiv.