The defining image of the year, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, is not the whole story of 2022. Here are some of the year’s most compelling photos from Stars and Stripes journalists, and the stories they helped tell.
Gurgen “Guga” Gagnidze arrived in Ukraine four months ago and was killed in October in combat. He was the 23rd volunteer from the tiny former Soviet republic of Georgia to die fighting the Russians in Ukraine.