Ukainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks to the press in the town of Bucha, northwest of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, on April 4, 2022.
Ira Gavriluk holds her cat as she walks next to the bodies of her husband, brother, and another man, who were killed outside her home in Bucha, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, April 4, 2022. Russia is facing a fresh wave of condemnation after evidence emerged of what appeared to be deliberate killings of civilians in Ukraine.
Tanya Nedashkivs’ka, 57, mourns the death of her husband, killed in Bucha, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, April 4, 2022.
Widespread destruction in Bucha, a suburb of Kyiv, Ukraine, on April 3, 2022.
Natalya, whose husband and nephew were killed by Russian forces, cries in her garden in Bucha, Ukraine, April 4, 2022.
In the courtyard of their house, Vlad Tanyuk, 6, stands near the grave of his mother Ira Tanyuk, who died because of starvation and stress due to the war, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, April 4, 2022.
A view inside the Mariupol theater damaged during fighting in Mariupol, in territory under the government of the Donetsk People’s Republic, eastern Ukraine, April 4, 2022.
The lifeless body of a man lies in the staircase of a building in Bucha, Ukraine, April 3, 2022. Associated Press journalists in Bucha, a small city northwest of Kyiv, saw the bodies of at least nine people in civilian clothes who appeared to have been killed at close range. At least two had their hands tied behind their backs.
Soldiers walk amid destroyed Russian tanks in Bucha, in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, April 3, 2022. Ukrainian troops are finding brutalized bodies and widespread destruction in the suburbs of Kyiv, sparking new calls for a war crimes investigation and sanctions against Russia.
A woman walks as smoke rises in the air in the background after shelling in Odessa, Ukraine, April 3, 2022.
A Ukrainian serviceman walks next to a fighting vehicle, outside Kyiv, Ukraine, April 2, 2022. As Russian forces pull back from Ukraine’s capital region, retreating troops are creating a “catastrophic” situation for civilians by leaving mines around homes, abandoned equipment and “even the bodies of those killed,” President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned Saturday.
Residents reach for food distributed by soldiers from the Azov Battalion, a Ukrainian paramilitary group, in Bucha, a recently liberated town northwest of Kyiv, Ukraine, on April 2, 2022. In a potentially stunning reversal, Russian troops were in retreat from areas surrounding Kyiv.
A woman stands in a damaged kitchen in the eastern Ukraine city of Kharkiv on April 2, 2022, as Ukraine said Russian forces were making a “rapid retreat” from northern areas around the capital Kyiv and the city of Chernigiv.
Bodies lie on a street in Bucha, northwest of Kyiv, as Ukraine said Russian forces were making a “rapid retreat” from northern areas around Kyiv and the city of Chernigiv on April 2, 2022.
Ukrainian soldiers try to pull the dead body of a Russian soldier from a destroyed Russian tank in the village of Dmytrivka close to Kyiv on April 2, 2022. At least 10 Russian tanks were destroyed in the fighting two days earlier in Dmytrivka.
Mariya Ol’hovs’ka, 33, mourns the death of her father, Valerii Ol’hovs’kyi, 72, on April 1, 2022. He was killed by a Russian missile on March 30 near his house, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine. Maria and her family buried her father in the garden of their home as they could not bury him in the village cemetery due to fighting between the Ukrainian and Russian armies.
Ukrainian soldiers inspect trenches used by Russian soldiers during the occupation of villages on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, April 1, 2022.
A boy looks at a destroyed Russian tank on April 1, 2022, after recent battles in Bucha, close to Kyiv, Ukraine.
Flowers are placed on a Ukrainian military armored vehicle destroyed during fighting between Russian and Ukrainian forces outside Kyiv, Ukraine, on April 1, 2022.
Ukrainian soldiers carry the body of a civilian killed by Russian forces over the destroyed bridge in Irpin, not far from the capital of Kyiv, Ukraine, on March 31, 2022.
A gas station burns after Russian attacks in the city of Kharkiv, March 30, 2022, amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
A Ukrainian serviceman holds a rifle in a trench at the front line east of Kharkiv March 31, 2022.
Mariya, a local resident, looks for personal items in the rubble of her house, which was destroyed during fighting between Russian and Ukrainian forces in the village of Yasnohorodka, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, March 30, 2022.
A Ukranian soldier stands on the canon of a burnt Russian tank on the outskirts of Kyiv, March 31, 2022.
A soldier comforts Larysa Kolesnyk, 82, after being evacuated from Irpin, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, March 30, 2022.
A Ukrainian soldier and a stray dog during a clearing-out operation of remaining Russian forces in Irpin, Ukraine, on March 29, 2022.
Damaged apartment buildings after shelling on the outskirts of Mariupol, Ukraine, in territory under control of the separatist government of the Donetsk People’s Republic, on March 29, 2022.
A volunteer smokes next to sandbags used for protection, at a Ukrainian volunteer center in Mykolaiv, southern Ukraine on March 28, 2022. Ukrainian volunteers have set up a center to supply army and civilians with clothes, food, medicines and makeshift bulletproof vests.
Halyna Falko, 52, talks while looking at the destruction caused after a Russian attack inside her house near Brovary, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, March 28, 2022.
Ukrainian evacuees queue as they wait for transportation at the Medyka border crossing after they crossed into southeastern Poland on March 29, 2022.
Volunteers assemble sandbags to protect a monument in Kyiv on March 29, 2022, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Natalya Vakula, 44, rests in a hospital in Brovary, on the outskirts of Kyiv, while recovering from injuries to her leg after a Russian attack in Chernihiv, Ukraine, March 26, 2022.
People shelter underground following explosions in Lviv, Ukraine, March 26, 2022.
A man hurries away from a building that had just been struck by Russian bombardment in the Moskovskyi district in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on March 25, 2022.
Neighbors try to extinguish the fire of a house destroyed after a Russian attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine, March 24, 2022.
Nadia kisses her 10-year-old granddaughter Zlata Moiseinko, suffering from a chronic heart condition, as she receives treatment at a schoolhouse that has been converted into a field hospital in Mostyska, western Ukraine, March 24, 2022. The United Nations children’s agency says Russia’s invasion has displaced half of Ukraine’s children, one of the largest such displacements since World War II.
Anti- tank barricades are placed on a street as preparation for a possible Russian offensive, in Odesa, Ukraine, March 24, 2022.
Inside view of the regional administration building, heavily damaged after a Russian attack earlier this month in Kharkiv, Ukraine, March 24, 2022.
People with their belongings in a city subway that they have used as a bomb shelter in Kharkiv, Ukraine, March 24, 2022.
Natalya mourns the death of her brother Sergiy Muravyts’kyi, 61, who was killed during a Russian attack in the village of Mriya, which means Dream in Ukrainian, during a ceremony before his cremation at the Baikove cemetery, Kyiv, Ukraine, March 24, 2022.
A Ukrainian firefighter sprays water inside a house destroyed by shelling in Kyiv, Ukraine, March 23, 2022. The Kyiv city administration says Russian forces shelled the Ukrainian capital overnight and early Wednesday morning, in the districts of Sviatoshynskyi and Shevchenkivskyi, damaging buildings.
A Ukrainian serviceman guards the area as Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko, right, speaks during a press conference next to his brother, former heavyweight boxing world champion Wladimir Klitschko, in Kyiv, Ukraine, March 23, 2022.
Ukrainians rest at an exhibition hall, turned into a refugee center in Nadarzyn, near Warsaw, Poland, on March 23, 2022. The United Nations says more than 3.5 million people — mainly women and children — have fled Ukraine in the four weeks since Russian tanks rolled across the border and Moscow began bombarding towns and cities.
A serviceman carries the photo of Capt. Andrei Paliy, a deputy commander of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, during a farewell ceremony in Sevastopol, Crimea, March 23, 2022. Paliy was killed in action during fighting with Ukrainian forces in the Sea of Azov port of Mariupol.
Ludmila, left, says goodbye to her granddaughter Kristina, who with her son Yaric, leave the train station in Odesa, southern Ukraine, on March 22, 2022. The U.N. refugee agency says more than 3.5 million people have fled Ukraine since Russia’s invasion.
People examine the damage after shelling of a shopping center, in Kyiv, Ukraine, March 21, 2022. Eight people were killed in the attack.
A cloud of smoke raises after an explosion in Lviv, western Ukraine, March 18, 2022. The mayor of Lviv says missiles struck near the city’s airport early Friday.
A man removes a destroyed curtain inside a school damaged among other residential buildings in Kyiv, Ukraine, March 18, 2022.
Ukrainian firefighters extinguish a blaze at a warehouse after a bombing in Kyiv, Ukraine, March 17, 2022.
A picture of Russian President Vladimir Putin hangs at a target practice range in Lviv, western Ukraine, March 17, 2022.
Ukrainians charge their electronic devices at a refugee shelter in Nadarzyn, near Warsaw, Poland, March 17, 2022. Poland has admitted some 1.95 million refugees fleeing war and Russian aggression on Ukraine.
A volunteer of the Ukrainian Territorial Defense Forces stands next to his APC in Kharkiv, Ukraine, March 16, 2022. NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg made it clear Tuesday that the 30-nation military alliance is set to radically change its security stance in Europe in response to Russia’s war on Ukraine.
People put up plastic sheets to cover the broken windows of their apartments after parts of a Russian missile, shot down by Ukrainian air defense, landed on an apartment block, according to authorities, in Kyiv, Ukraine, March 17, 2022.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks to the U.S. Congress by video to plead for support as his country is besieged by Russian forces, at the Capitol in Washington, March 16, 2022.
A volunteer of the Ukrainian Territorial Defense Forces assists a woman to cross the street in Kharkiv, Ukraine, March 16, 2022. Both Russia and Ukraine projected optimism ahead of another scheduled round of talks Wednesday, even as Moscow’s forces rained fire on Kyiv and other major cities in a bid to crush the resistance that has frustrated Kremlin hopes for a lightning victory.
Relatives and friends attend a funeral ceremony for four of the Ukrainian military servicemen, who were killed during an airstrike in a military base in Yarokiv, in a church in Lviv, Ukraine, March 15, 2022. At least 35 people were killed and many wounded in Sunday’s Russian missile strike on a military training base near Ukraine’s western border with NATO member Poland.
Firefighters extinguish fires in an apartment building after being hit by shelling in Kyiv, Ukraine, March 15, 2022.
An elderly woman is helped by policemen after she was rescued by firefighters from inside her apartment after bombing in Kyiv, Ukraine, March 15, 2022.
Residents embrace after salvaging some belongings from an apartment complex in the Obolon district of Kyiv, Ukraine, that was struck by artillery shells on March 14, 2022. Two people were killed and nine wounded in the attack.
A firefighter looks at a fragment of a Ukrainian Tochka-U missile on a street in Donetsk in eastern Ukraine, March 14, 2022.
A refugee fleeing the war from neighboring Ukraine peers from a tent after crossing the border, at the Romanian-Ukrainian border, in Siret, Romania, March 14, 2022.
People walk past a crater from the explosion in Mira Avenue (Avenue of Peace) in Mariupol, Ukraine, March 13, 2022.
An injured man is wheeled on a stretcher at a local hospital in Novoiavorisk, western Ukraine on March 13, 2022.
A Ukrainian firefighter drags a hose inside a large food products storage facility which was destroyed by an airstrike in the early morning hours on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine on March 13, 2022.
A woman walks past building damaged by shelling, in Kharkiv, Ukraine on March 13, 2022.
Residents prepare tea as they sit in a basement being used as a bomb shelter in Irpin, outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine on March 13, 2022.
A Ukrainian serviceman guards his position in Mariupol, Ukraine on March 12, 2022.
Displaced Ukrainians onboard a Poland bound train in Lviv, western Ukraine on March 13, 2022.
Displaced Ukrainians queue to board a Poland bound train in Lviv, western Ukraine on March 13, 2022.
A group of people, who have fled Ukraine, arrive at the border crossing in Medyka, Poland on March 13, 2022.
Passengers depart the railway station after disembarking trains from the east on March 11, 2022 in Lviv, Ukraine. More than two million people have fled Ukraine following Russia’s large-scale assault on the country, with hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians passing through Lviv on their way to Poland.
A Ukrainian man in camouflage stands next to snow covered body bags in the yard of a morgue in Mykolaiv, a city on the shores of the Black Sea that has been under Russian attack for days on March 11, 2022.
An explosion is seen in an apartment building after Russian’s army tank fires in Mariupol, Ukraine, March 11, 2022.
Antonina, 84, sits in a wheelchair after being evacuated along with her twelve dogs from Irpin, at a triage point in Kyiv, Ukraine, March 11, 2022.
People who fled the war in Ukraine rest inside the old train station building that has been converted for a temporary refugee shelter on March 11, 2022 in Krakow, Poland. More than half of the 2.3 million Ukrainians fleeing war have crossed into neighboring Poland since Russia began a large-scale armed invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022.
Elderly residents hide in a basement for shelter, with no electricity, water or food in the center of the town of Irpin, some 25 km (16 miles) northwest of Kyiv, March 11, 2022. Kyiv northwest suburbs such as Irpin and Bucha have been enduring Russian shellfire and bombardments for over a week.
Relatives and friends mourn the body of senior police sergeant Roman Rushchyshyn in the village of Soposhyn, outskirts of Lviv, western Ukraine, March 10, 2022, in Lviv. Rushchyshyn, a member of the Lviv Special Police Patrol Battalion, was killed in the Luhansk Region.
A Ukrainian serviceman takes a photograph of a damaged church after shelling in a residential district in Mariupol, Ukraine, March 10, 2022.
A destroyed tank is seen after battles between Ukrainian and Russian forces on a main road near Brovary, north of Kyiv, Ukraine, March 10, 2022.
A man who injured by shelling near his home is treated at a hospital in Brovary, north of Kyiv, Ukraine, March 10, 2022.
Ukrainian emergency employees and volunteers carry an injured pregnant woman from the damaged by shelling maternity hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine, March 9, 2022. A Russian attack has severely damaged a maternity hospital in the besieged port city of Mariupol, Ukrainian officials say.
A woman walks outside the damaged by shelling maternity hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine, March 9, 2022.
People who were evacuated from areas around the Ukrainian capital, wait on a bus after arriving at a triage point in Kyiv, Ukraine, March 9, 2022.
Dead bodies are placed into a mass grave on the outskirts of Mariupol, Ukraine, March 9, 2022 as people cannot bury their dead because of the heavy shelling by Russian forces.
A Ukrainian Territorial Defense Forces member holds an NLAW anti-tank weapon, in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, March 9, 2022. Authorities announced a new ceasefire on Wednesday to allow civilians to escape from towns around the capital, Kyiv, as well as the southern cities of Mariupol, Enerhodar and Volnovakha, Izyum in the east and Sumy in the northeast. Previous attempts to establish safe evacuation corridors have largely failed due to attacks by Russian forces.
A child is carried on a stroller across an improvised path while fleeing Irpin, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, March 9, 2022.
Ukrainians cross an improvised path under a destroyed bridge while fleeing Irpin, in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, March 8, 2022.
A refugee fleeing the conflict from neighbouring Ukraine sits on a bus, at the Romanian-Ukrainian border, in Siret, Romania, March 8, 2022.
Ukrainians crowd under a destroyed bridge as they try to flee crossing the Irpin river in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, March 8, 2022. Demands for ways to safely evacuate civilians have surged along with intensifying shelling by Russian forces, who have made significant advances in southern Ukraine but stalled in some other regions. Efforts to put in place cease-fires along humanitarian corridors have repeatedly failed amid Russian shelling.
A father puts his hand on the window as he says goodbye to his daughter in front of an evacuation train at the central train station in Odessa on March 7, 2022.
Evacuees cross a destroyed bridge as they flee the city of Irpin, northwest of Kyiv, on March 7, 2022.
Ukrainian civilians receive weapons training, in the outskirts of Lviv, western Ukraine, March 7, 2022. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has entered its 12th day following what Ukrainian authorities described as increased shelling of encircled cities and another failed attempt to evacuate civilians from the port of Mariupol.
People cross an improvised path under a destroyed bridge while fleeing the town of Irpin close to Kyiv, Ukraine, March 7, 2022.
A Ukrainian police officer runs while holding a child as the artillery echoes nearby, while fleeing Irpin on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, March 7, 2022.
Ukrainian servicemen guard a checkpoint on a main road in Kyiv, Ukraine, March 7, 2022.
Ukrainian soldiers try to save the father of a family of four — the only one at that moment who still had a pulse — moments after being hit by a mortar while trying to flee Irpin, near Kyiv, Ukraine, on March 6, 2022.
A woman holds a small girl at a border crossing, up as refugees flee a Russian invasion, in Medyka, Poland, March 3, 2022. The U.N. refugee agency said Thursday at least 1 million people have fled Ukraine since Russia’s invasion a week ago, an exodus without precedent in this century for its speed.
Children Vlada, left, Katrin and Danilo look out from a window of an unheated train carriage of an emergency evacuation train which is travelling from Kharkov to Lviv, as it stopped in the Kyiv railway station in Kyiv, Ukraine, March 3, 2022.
Serhii, father of teenager Iliya, cries on his son’s lifeless body lying on a stretcher at a maternity hospital converted into a medical ward in Mariupol, Ukraine, March 2, 2022.
Ambulance paramedics treat an elderly woman wounded by shelling before transferring her to a maternity hospital converted into a medical ward in Mariupol, Ukraine, March 2, 2022.
A woman runs as she flees with her family across a destroyed bridge in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine on March 2. 2022.
A view of smoke from inside a damaged gym following shelling in Kyiv, Ukraine, March 2, 2022. Russian forces have escalated their attacks on crowded cities in what Ukraine’s leader called a blatant campaign of terror.
A Ukrainian soldier wanders down the railway to inspect something, past the bodies of dead Russian soldiers, where fighting took place with Russian forces on the outskirts of Irpin, Ukraine on March 1, 2022.
Volunteer fighters transport rifles across a river under a destroyed bridge to reinforce Ukrainian troops in Irpin, Ukraine on March 1, 2022.
Medical workers move a patient in a basement of a maternity hospital converted into a medical ward and used as a bomb shelter in Mariupol, Ukraine on March 1, 2022. Russian strikes on the key southern port city of Mariupol seriously wounded several people.
An armed man stands by the remains of a Russian military vehicle in Bucha, close to the capital Kyiv, Ukraine on March 1, 2022.
People fleeing from the conflict drive cars heading to the Ukrainian and Romania border near Cernivtsi, in Ukraine on March 1, 2022.
Refugees try to stay warm after fleeing the Russian invasion of Ukraine, at the Medyka border crossing in Poland, March 1, 2022. All day long, as trains and buses bring people fleeing Ukraine to the safety of Polish border towns, they carry not just Ukrainian fleeing a homeland under attack but large numbers of other citizens who had made Ukraine their home and whose fates too are now uncertain.
Ambassadors and diplomats leave the room while Russia’s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov (on screen) addresses with a pre-recorded video message the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, Switzerland, March 1, 2022. The diplomats got up and left the room when Sergei Lavrov’s pre-recorded video message began to play, in protest against Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.
Kateryna Suharokova holds her newborn son Makar in the basement of a maternity hospital converted into a medical ward and used as a bomb shelter in Mariupol, Ukraine, Feb. 28, 2022. In makeshift shelters and underground railway platforms across Ukraine, families trying to protect the young and old and make conditions bearable amid the bullets, missiles and shells outside.
Ukrainian volunteers tear cloth into strips to make camouflage nets in Lviv, western Ukraine, Feb. 28, 2022. The Russian military assault on Ukraine went into its fifth day after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered his nuclear forces put on increased alert, ratcheting up tensions yet further.
A refugee child fleeing the conflict from neighboring Ukraine sits in a bus at the Romanian-Ukrainian border, in Siret, Romania on Feb. 28, 2022. The European Union’s commissioner for home affairs Ylva Johansson visited Romania’s northern border crossing in Siret Monday where thousands of refugees are entering from neighboring Ukraine as they flee the conflict with Russia.
People sleep in the improvised bomb shelter in a sports center, which can accommodate up to 2000 people, in Mariupol, Ukraine, late Feb. 27, 2022. Explosions and gunfire that have disrupted life since the invasion began last week appeared to subside around Kyiv overnight, as Ukrainian and Russian delegations prepared to meet Monday, Feb. 28, 2022 on Ukraine’s border with Belarus.
A volunteer holds a baby while people wait with their belongings at the Tiszabecs-Tiszaujlak border crossing as they flee Ukraine on Feb. 27, 2022 in Tiszabecs, Hungary. Refugees from Ukraine have fled into neighboring countries such as Hungary, forming long queues at border crossings, after Russia began a large-scale attack on Ukraine earlier this week.
A couple embrace prior to the woman boarding a train carriage leaving for western Ukraine, at the railway station in Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine, Feb. 27, 2022. The U.N. refugee agency says nearly 120,000 people have so far fled Ukraine into neighboring countries in the wake of the Russian invasion. The number was going up fast as Ukrainians grabbed their belongings and rushed to escape from a deadly Russian onslaught.
Members of civil defense prepare Molotov cocktails in a yard in Kyiv, Ukraine on Feb. 27, 2022. A Ukrainian official says street fighting has broken out in Ukraine’s second-largest city of Kharkiv. Russian troops also put increasing pressure on strategic ports in the country’s south following a wave of attacks on airfields and fuel facilities elsewhere that appeared to mark a new phase of Russia’s invasion.
A child watches from a train carriage, waiting to leave to western Ukraine at the railway station in Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine on Feb. 27, 2022. The U.N. refugee agency says nearly 120,000 people have so far fled Ukraine into neighboring countries in the wake of the Russian invasion. The number was going up fast as Ukrainians grabbed their belongings and rushed to escape from a deadly Russian onslaught.
An armored personnel carrier burns and damaged light utility vehicles stand abandoned after fighting in Kharkiv, Ukraine on Feb. 27, 2022. The city authorities said that Ukrainian forces engaged in fighting with Russian troops that entered the country’s second-largest city on Sunday.
A refugee fleeing the conflict from neighboring Ukraine holds her baby as she sits in a tent at the Romanian-Ukrainian border, in Siret, Romania, Feb. 26, 2022. Romania, which shares around 600 kilometers (372 miles) of borders with Ukraine to the north, is seeing an influx of refugees from the country as many flee Russia’s attacks.
Ukrainian soldiers take positions outside a military facility as two cars burn, in a street in Kyiv, Ukraine, Feb. 26, 2022.
A Polish border guard assists refugees from Ukraine as they arrive to Poland at the Korczowa border crossing, Poland, Feb. 26, 2022.
Ukrainian soldiers hold a position that was the site of a battle the day before with Russian forces on a highway leading into Kharkiv, Ukraine, Feb. 25, 2022.
The body of a Russian soldier lies near destroyed Russian vehicles the day after fighting with Ukrainian soldiers on a highway outside Kharkiv, Ukraine, Feb. 25, 2022.
Natali Sevriukova reacts next to her house following a rocket attack the city of Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, Feb. 25, 2022.
A Ukrainian Army soldier inspects fragments of a downed aircraft in Kyiv, Ukraine, Feb. 25, 2022. It was unclear what aircraft crashed and what brought it down amid the Russian invasion in Ukraine.
Military volunteers gather to receive weapons at a weapons storage facility in Fastiv, Ukraine, Feb. 25, 2022.
A man sits outside his destroyed building after bombings on the eastern Ukraine town of Chuguiv on Feb. 24, 2022, as Russian armed forces invade Ukraine.
Ukrainian servicemen sit atop armored personnel carriers driving on a road in the Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Feb. 24, 2022. Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday announced a military operation in Ukraine and warned other countries that any attempt to interfere with the Russian action would lead to “consequences you have never seen.”
A woman holds her baby as she gets on a bus leaving Kyiv, Ukraine, Feb. 24, 2022. Russia launched a wide-ranging attack on Ukraine on Thursday, hitting cities and bases with airstrikes or shelling, as civilians piled into trains and cars to flee.
Firefighters work on a fire on a building after bombings on the eastern Ukraine town of Chuguiv on Feb. 24, 2022, as Russian armed forces are trying to invade Ukraine from several directions, using rocket systems and helicopters to attack Ukrainian position in the south, the border guard service said.
A woman reacts as she waits for a train trying to leave Kyiv, Ukraine, Feb. 24, 2022.
A child sleeps in an armchair as others stand around in a shelter during Russian shelling, in Mariupol, Ukraine, Feb. 24, 2022.
Residents leave Kyiv following pre-offensive missile strikes of the Russian armed forces and Belarus on Feb. 24, 2022. Overnight, Russia began a large-scale attack on Ukraine, with explosions reported in multiple cities and far outside the restive eastern regions held by Russian-backed rebels.
Damaged radar, a vehicle and equipment are seen at a Ukrainian military facility outside Mariupol, Ukraine, Feb. 24, 2022.
A woman and child peer out of window of a bus window as they leave Sievierodonetsk, the Luhansk region, eastern Ukraine, Feb. 24, 2022.
Police officers inspect the damage after an apparent Russian strike in Kyiv, Ukraine, Feb. 24, 2022.
Smoke is seen near damaged radar arrays and other equipment at a Ukrainian military facility outside Mariupol, Ukraine, Feb. 24, 2022.