LORI HINNANT

Investigative correspondent

Hinnant covers the intersection of human rights and international security for The Associated Press. She’s reported throughout North Africa, Europe and the Middle East. Based in Paris, she shared the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for her reporting in Ukraine.

French voters propel far-right National Rally to strong lead in first-round legislative elections

French voters have propelled the far-right National Rally to a strong lead in first-round legislative elections and plunged the country into political uncertainty. President Emmanuel Macron is urging voters to block the far right in the second-round elections.

Russia obliterates Ukraine’s front-line towns faster with hacked bombs and expanded air base network

Russia is intensifying its use of cheap glide bombs to lay waste to cities in eastern Ukraine. The latest generation of the retrofitted weapons have devastated Kharkiv, Avdiivka, Chasiv Yar and Vovchansk.

Russian POWs get to make phone calls home. Ukrainians don’t. A growing movement wants that to change

For hundreds of Russian soldiers taken prisoner, phone calls home can offer a bit of comfort and hope.

Takeaways into AP investigation into Russian system to force its passports on occupied Ukraine

Russia has successfully imposed its passports on nearly the entire population of occupied Ukraine by making it impossible to survive without them, coercing hundreds of thousands of people into citizenship.

Russia forces Ukrainians in occupied territories to take its passports – and fight in its army

Russia has successfully imposed its passports on nearly the entire population of occupied Ukraine by making it impossible to survive without them, coercing hundreds of thousands of people into citizenship.

How Ukraine lost Avdiivka to Russia

The loss of the city of Avdiivka last month marked the end of a long, exhausting defense for the Ukrainian military.

How Ukrainian special forces secured a critical Dnipro River crossing in southern Ukraine

Ukrainian special forces officers spent six months on their mission to establish a bridgehead across the Dnipro River in southern Ukraine after an explosion destroyed the dam upstream.

How the Israeli kibbutz of Nir Oz embodied Hamas hostage strategy

The recent release of dozens of Israeli hostages is bringing new focus on the Hamas rampage through the kibbutz of Nir Oz.

Families of Israel hostages fear the world will forget. So they’re traveling to be living reminders

Families of hostages seized during the Oct. 7 Hamas attack fear the world’s focus on them is fading, as is the impetus to free some 240 people held.

‘Not knowing’ plunges the families of Israel’s missing into a limbo of pain and numbness

The families of Israel’s missing after Hamas’ Oct. 7 massacre say they’re stuck in a limbo of pain and numbness, and without much information.

Precision missile strike on cafe hosting soldier’s wake decimates Ukrainian village

The Ukrainian village of Hroza has been plunged into mourning by a missile strike that killed more than 50 people.

Fighting ‘through hell.’ To reclaim Bakhmut, a Ukrainian brigade must first survive the forest

The brigade’s mission was to reclaim a village on the road to Bakhmut. But first they had to survive a forest filled with Russian soldiers.

Interpol at 100: A mixed legacy of hunting fugitives and merging police data from 195 countries

Interpol is turning 100 with a mixed legacy — as a misconstrued crime-fighting organization, a network that merges police data from authoritarian states and democracies, and a global adviser on how to handle criminal trends.

Anger grows in Ukraine’s port city of Odesa after Russian bombardment hits beloved historic sites

In just a week, Russia has fired dozens of missiles and drones at the Odesa region of Ukraine, hitting the historic city center that had been largely spared since the beginning of the war.

Takeaways from the AP investigation into thousands of Ukrainian civilians held by Russia in prisons

Thousands of Ukrainian civilians are detained in a network of formal and informal prisons across Russia and the territories it occupies, where they endure routine torture, psychological abuse and even slave labor.

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Thousands of Ukraine civilians are being held in Russian prisons. Russia plans to build many more

Thousands of Ukrainian civilians are being detained across Russia and the Ukrainian territories it occupies, in centers ranging from brand-new wings in Russian prisons to clammy basements.

Milan Kundera, renowned but reclusive Czech writer and former dissident, dies in Paris at 94

Milan Kundera, whose dissident writings in communist Czechoslovakia transformed him into an exiled satirist of totalitarianism, has died in Paris. He was 94.

French justice is working overtime and the mood is stern after thousands of teen arrests

French courts are working overtime in fast-track trials for more than 3,600 people arrested in unrest sparked by the police killing of a 17-year-old boy captured on video.

Russia had means, motive and opportunity to destroy Ukraine dam, drone photos and information show

Exclusive drone photos and information obtained by The Associated Press shows that Russia had the means, motive and opportunity to bring down a Ukrainian dam that collapsed earlier this month while under Russian control.

Ukraine’s dam collapse is both a fast-moving disaster and a slow-moving ecological catastrophe

Experts say the long-term consequences will be generational. For every flooded home and farm, there are fields upon fields of newly planted grains, fruits and vegetables whose irrigation canals are drying up.

Damage to Russian-occupied dam submerges Ukrainian reservoir island community

LYSOHIRKA, Ukraine (AP) — The rising waters came as a relief at first, for both the tiny community living on the islands in the southern Kakhovka Reservoir and for everyone who had feared the low levels risked a meltdown at the nearby Russian-occupied nuclear power plant.

UN-backed inquiry accuses Russia of war crimes in Ukraine

A U.N.-backed investigation has found that Russian attacks against civilians in Ukraine, including systematic torture and killing in occupied regions, amount to war crimes and possibly crimes against humanity.

Ukraine’s health care on the brink after hundreds of attacks

Researchers have documented more than 700 attacks against health care facilities and staff a year into Russia’s war in Ukraine.

Russia scrubs Mariupol’s Ukraine identity, builds on death

Throughout Mariupol, Russian workers are tearing down bombed-out buildings at a rate of at least one a day, hauling away shattered bodies with the debris.

Ukraine: Doctors from occupied city open hospital in Kyiv

A team of doctors and nurses who fled Mariupol as Russian forces closed in on their hospital are starting up a new medical center in the Ukrainian capital to serve people displaced by the war.

Russian rocket kills newborn in repeat attack on small town

Russian rockets have rained down on a small town in eastern Ukraine for the second time in a week, killing a newborn boy and destroying the municipal hospital.

Ukraine hospital’s staff fight dark memories of occupation

Medical staff at the Izium hospital in eastern Ukraine are fighting the memories of six deadly months under Russian occupation.

Orphan watched dad die, now awaits future in Ukraine shelter

A young Ukrainian boy with disabilities is now an orphan after his father was taken by cancer in the devastated eastern city of Izium.

10 torture sites in 1 town: Russia sowed pain, fear in Izium

IZIUM, Ukraine (AP) — The first time the Russian soldiers caught him, they tossed him bound and blindfolded into a trench covered with wooden boards for days on end.

Hundreds of kids from east Ukraine stranded in Russian camps

Hundreds of children from eastern Ukraine are stranded in Russian summer camps, on the wrong side of a front line that shifted after they were bused away for what was supposed to be holiday.