According to the Voice of America, the New York Times received the most awards among the media (three in the nominations "For Disclosure of a National Issue" and "For Disclosure of an International Issue").

  • The most prestigious nomination is traditionally considered "For Service to Society" (its owner receives a gold medal), which this year was awarded to the Washington Post for covering the attack on the Capitol by supporters of President Donald Trump on January 6, 2021.

    • The Getty Images photojournalist for the January 6 event and Marcus Yam of the Los Angeles Times for winning coverage of the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan won the News Photography nomination.

    • Reuters photographers received the Art Photography Award for their coverage of the COVID-19 epidemic in India.

      One of the laureates, Danish Siddiki, died in Afghanistan in July while completing an editorial assignment.

    • Journalists from the Miami Herald for covering the fall of the Champlain Towers won the Best Sensational Material nomination, and the Tampa Bay Times received the Best Investigation Award for publishing a series of toxic waste materials at a Flora industrial plant.

    The Pulitzer Prize has been awarded by Columbia University since 1917 in 22 nominations.

    It is considered one of the world's most prestigious awards in the field of journalism.

    Russia's war against Ukraine

    • At 5 am on February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the start of a military operation against Ukraine in the Donbas at the request of the DNR and LNR groups.

      On February 21, during a televised address to the Russians, Putin called the so-called "DPR" and "LPR" independent states within the regions.

      On February 22, the Federation Council ratified the decision.

    • All the days of the war are shelling Ukrainian cities with missiles, flying aircraft.

      Russian troops are attacking, including from the territory of Belarus, using airfields, bases and roads.

      Representatives of the Lukashenko regime justify the war, the opposition considers the territory of Belarus occupied and calls for resistance to Russian invaders.

    • On February 27, the International Legion of Territorial Defense was established in Ukraine, and foreign volunteers were encouraged to join.

      Belarusians also entered there.

      During the two months of the war, four Belarusian volunteers and soldiers of the USU were killed at the front: 31-year-old Alyaksei Skoblya, call sign "Tour", 27-year-old Ilya Litvin from the Belarusian Territorial Defense Company of the Azov Battalion, Dmitry Apanasovich (call sign "Terror"). and Dmitry Rubashevsky "Hans".

    • On March 30, the UN approved the composition of an independent commission to investigate Russian war crimes in Ukraine.

      It included people who worked in the conflict in Rwanda and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

    • Contrary to Putin's claims of attacks exclusively on military facilities, the Russians are bombing schools, kindergartens and residential areas of Ukrainian cities.

      The Russians are using banned weapons, including cluster bombs against civilians.

    • The number of refugees from Ukraine has exceeded 5 million people.

      Poland received the most refugees from Ukraine - almost 3 million, Romania - about 800 thousand.

      Russia is listed on the third line with more than half a million people, but in Ukraine, based on conversations with the population of the occupied cities, they claim that people are taken there by force, actually kidnapping and often separating families, taking children.

    • On April 1, Lithuania became the first EU country to completely abandon Russian gas.

      Latvia and Estonia followed suit.

      Germany has promised to completely suspend the use of Russian oil by the end of 2022.

    • On April 2, after the liberation of the city of Bucha near Kyiv, photojournalists published dozens of photos showing hundreds of the dead, victims of massacres committed by Russian troops.

      Many are buried in natural mass graves.

      The Russian occupation and Borodyanka brought great destruction.

      A number of rapes, including infants, are also known.

    • In April, the Russians launched a large-scale attack on the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, conquering about 80% of their territory, according to the head of the Luhansk regional administration Sergei Gaidai.

      Fighting is also going on in the Kherson region.

    • Fighting continues in Mariupol, near the Azovstal plant, which holds the Ukrainian army.

      Russia seeks to establish full control over the city.

    • In early April, Ukraine and Western countries estimated Russia's losses in the war at 15-20 thousand killed.

      The Kremlin says the figure is ten times lower, although Putin's spokesman acknowledged that the losses were "significant".

      In March, Ukraine claimed 1,300 of its dead defenders.

      President Zelensky said that the ratio of losses of Ukraine and Russia in this war is "one to ten."

    • The surviving Russian units withdrew from Kyiv, Chernihiv and Sumy oblasts in early April after failing to capture any major cities there.

    • In April, the number of missile attacks on Ukraine and air strikes from Belarus decreased, and Russian troops began to leave Belarus.

    • Since the beginning of the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine, 26 media representatives have been killed - 19 journalists and 7 other workers.

    • On May 3, Russia launched a new assault on the Azovstal plant in Mariupol.

      People were killed in the bombings.

      Only on May 7, Iryna Verashchuk, Minister of Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine, reported that all women, children and the elderly had been evacuated from the enterprise.

      Most of the soldiers of the Azov Regiment remained, defending the city to the end.

    • Independent verification of information about hostilities provided by officials of various parties is not yet possible.