Residents of Zhytomyr, Ukraine, work in the remains of a residential building on Wednesday, March 2. The building was destroyed by shelling.
A woman cries on March 2 on the street in a neighborhood affected by air strikes in Gorenka, Ukraine.
Displaced Ukrainians take refuge in an auditorium in Lviv, Ukraine, on March 2.
A member of the Territorial Defense Forces of Ukraine inspected the damage in the backyard of a house in Gorenka on March 2.
Ukrainka takes her children across the border in Siret, Romania, on March 2nd. Many Ukrainians are fleeing the country at a pace that could turn into “Europe’s biggest refugee crisis of the century,” the UN refugee agency said.
Andrei Goncharuk, a 68-year-old member of Ukraine’s Territorial Defense Forces, holds a hunting rifle on March 2nd as he exits a small basement of Gorenka’s house, crowded with people seeking refuge from Russian air strikes and shelling.
People are waiting at the train station in Kyiv on March 2.
Local police are helping an elderly woman cross a bridge destroyed by artillery on the outskirts of Kyiv on March 2.
Ukrainian soldiers attend a liturgy at an Orthodox monastery in Kyiv on March 1.
Medical workers show the mother her newborn after she gave birth in a maternity hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine, on March 1. The hospital is now also used as a medical ward and bomb shelter.
An administrative building is visible in Kharkiv, Ukraine, after the Russian shelling on March 1. Russian forces have stepped up bombing of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city.
Ukrainian emergency workers carry the body of a victim after a shooting that hit the Kharkiv City Hall on March 1st.
A woman named Helen comforts her 8-year-old daughter Polina at the March 1 bomb shelter at a Kiev children’s hospital. The girl was in the hospital for treatment of encephalitis or inflammation of the brain.
Ukrainian refugees are trying to warm up at the Medica border crossing in Poland on March 1st.
Passengers are anxiously boarding trains in Kyiv before heading to destinations in the western part of the country on Monday (February 28th).
A bridge near the city of Bucha, Ukraine, was destroyed on February 28.
Volunteers in Kyiv sign up to join Ukraine’s Territorial Defense Forces on February 28.
A member of the Territorial Defense Forces loaded rifle cartridges in Kyiv on February 28.
Ukrainian forces have ordered a man to be shot down on February 28 as security measures are tightened amid Russian attacks in Kyiv.
Mothers are caring for their babies at the bomb shelter of a children’s hospital in Kyiv on February 28.
Ukrainian forces are seen in a basement used as a military base in Dnipro, Ukraine, on February 28.
On Sunday, February 27, smoke rises over the Ukrainian city of Vasilkov, near Kyiv. An oil storage fire was noticed at Vasilkiv Air Base.
A couple embraces at a train station in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, on February 27. The woman was about to board a train heading west.
People are waiting on the platform at the railway station in Lviv on February 27. Thousands of people at Lviv’s central station tried to board trains that would take them out of Ukraine.
Russian armored car burns after fighting in Kharkov on February 27. Street fighting erupted as Russian troops entered Ukraine’s second-largest city and urged residents to stay in shelters and not travel.
Locals prepare Molotov cocktails in Uzhhorod, Ukraine, on February 27th.
Cars line up on the road near Mostyska, Ukraine, as people try to flee to Poland on February 27.
Ukrainian troops in Kyiv escorted a prisoner on February 27 who was suspected of being a Russian agent.
Ukrainian servicemen take up position at Vasilkov Air Base near Kyiv on February 27th.
A woman sleeps on chairs on February 27 in the underground parking lot of a hotel in Kyiv, turned into a bomb shelter.
Ukrainian servicemen took refuge in a shelter at Vasilkov Air Base near Kyiv on Saturday (February 26th).
Damaged apartment building is seen in Kyiv on February 26.
People in Kyiv are fleeing for cover during the February 26 shelling.
A residential building in Kyiv is visible after it was damaged by shelling on February 26. The exterior walls of several apartment blocks looked completely blown up, the interior blackened and the rubble hanging loose.
A police car patrolled the streets of Kyiv on February 26.
Ukrainian troops inspected the site after a Russian air strike in Kyiv on February 26.
Following a national directive to complicate the invading Russian army’s attempts to orient itself, a road worker removed signs near Pisarivka, Ukraine, on February 26.
Members of the Territorial Defense Force – Ukraine’s military reserve – are preparing to defend Kyiv on February 26.
Ukrainian troops collect unexploded ordnance after a battle with advancing Russian troops in Kyiv in early February 26th.
Ukrainian servicemen search for and collect unexploded ordnance after a battle in Kyiv on February 26th.
The body of a Russian soldier lay next to a Russian car near Kharkov on February 25.
A woman cries in her car after crossing the border from Ukraine to Sighetu Marmatiei, Romania, on February 25th.
A Ukrainian soldier was wounded by crossfire in Kyiv on February 25.
A Ukrainian child sleeps in a tent at a humanitarian center in Palanca, Moldova, on February 25th.
A firefighter passes between the ruins of a downed plane in Kyiv on February 25.
Members of the Ukrainian National Guard take up positions in the center of Kyiv on February 25.
People are passing a residential building in Kyiv that was hit by an alleged Russian air strike on February 25th.
The body of a school official who locals say was killed in a recent shelling lies in the separatist-controlled town of Horlivka in Ukraine’s Donetsk region on February 25th.
Residents of Kyiv are sheltered in an underground garage on February 25.
An injured woman is in front of a hospital after an attack on the eastern Ukrainian city of Chukhuev, near Kharkiv, on Thursday (February 24th).
The rocket’s body remained in an apartment after shelling on the northern outskirts of Kharkiv on February 24th.
A boy is playing with his tablet in a public basement used as a bomb shelter in Kyiv on February 24.
A man is grieving after an air strike hit a residential complex in Chukhuevo on February 24th.
Rescuers are working at the crash site on February 24 after a Ukrainian military plane crashed and caught fire outside Kyiv, according to the Ukrainian State Emergency Service. The cause of the crash was not specified.
Ukrainian servicemen are sitting on armored vehicles moving in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine on February 24.
People in Kyiv are trying to get on a bus to travel west to Poland on February 24.
People are seeking shelter at a metro station in Kharkiv on February 24th.
Firefighters are trying to put out the blaze after a reported strike in Chukhuevo on February 24th.
People are waiting after boarding a bus to leave Kyiv on February 24.
Police officers inspect the remains of a rocket that crashed in Kyiv on February 24.
An employee of a hotel in Kyiv spoke on the phone on February 24.
People are waiting in line to buy train tickets at Kyiv Central Station on February 24.
A photo provided by the Ukrainian president’s office appears to show an explosion in Kyiv early on February 24.
A convoy of Russian military vehicles was seen on February 23 in Russia’s Rostov region, which runs along Ukraine’s eastern border.
Ukrainian soldiers talk at a shelter on the front line near Svetlodarsk, Ukraine, on February 23.
Smoke is rising from a damaged power plant in Happiness, which Ukrainian authorities say was hit by shelling on February 22nd.
Work is underway on a damaged house after shelling near the Ukrainian front town of Novolukhansk on February 22nd.
Ukrainian soldiers pay tribute to Sidorov’s funeral in Kyiv on February 22nd.
Russian howitzers board train near Taganrog, Russia, on February 22.
Protesters demanding economic sanctions against Russia stand in front of the Foreign Ministry in Kyiv on February 21. Only a small number of protesters showed up to demonstrate.
Activists are holding a rally in front of the Russian embassy in Kyiv on February 21 in support of the prisoners arrested in Crimea. They say the red doors are a symbol of the doors that were pushed open to search and arrest Crimean Tatars, a Muslim ethnic minority.
Ukrainian servicemen shop in the front town of Avdeevka, Ukraine, on February 21.
People lay flowers in front of the monument to the Motherland in Kyiv on February 21.
A local resident shows the depth of a shelling crater in a field behind his house in the village of Tamarchuk, Ukraine, on February 20th.
Ukrainian troops are seen on the front line outside Popasna, Ukraine, on February 20th.
People evacuated from Ukraine’s pro-Russian separatist regions are seen in a temporary shelter in Taganrog, Russia, on February 20th.
Anastasia Manha puts her 2-month-old son Nikita to sleep after an alleged shelling by separatist forces in Novohnativka, Ukraine, on February 20th.
A Ukrainian soldier remains on the front line near Novohnativka on February 20th.
The couple arrives at the city council to get married in Odessa, Ukraine, on February 20th. As Ukrainian authorities report further ceasefire violations and senior Western officials warn of impending conflict, life continues in other parts of the country.
A woman died in a car near a border checkpoint in Avilo-Uspenka, Russia, on February 19th.
A Ukrainian serviceman walks past a building on February 19 that was hit by mortar fire in the frontline village of Krymske, Ukraine.
Fighter jets are flying over Belarus during a joint military exercise with Russia on February 19th.
Ukrainian soldiers stand guard at the Novolukhansk military command center on February 19th.
People board a bus in Donetsk on February 18th after being ordered to evacuate to Russia by pro-Russian separatists.
Children play on old Soviet tanks in front of the monument to the Motherland in Kyiv on February 16.
Ambassadors of European countries laid roses on the Wall of Remembrance in Kyiv on February 16. The wall contains the names and photos of military members who died after the start of the conflict with Russian-backed separatists in 2014.
US troops walk the runway at Rzeszow-Jasionka Airport in southeastern Poland on February 16. US paratroopers have landed in Poland as part of the deployment of several thousand sent to strengthen NATO’s eastern flank in response to tensions with Russia.
A 200-meter Ukrainian flag is unfurled at Kyiv’s Olympic Stadium on February 16th to mark Unity Day, an impromptu celebration announced by President Vladimir Zelensky.
A Ukrainian serviceman carries an anti-tank weapon during an exercise in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine on February 15.
A woman and a child walk under a military monument in Senkivka, Ukraine, on February 14. He is on the outskirts of the Three Sisters border crossing between Ukraine, Russia and Belarus.
Ukrainian servicemen hold talks at the front line in eastern Ukraine on February 14.
Members of the National Guard of Ukraine look out the window as they travel by bus through the capital Kyiv on February 14.
Satellite images taken on February 13 by Maxar Technologies have revealed that dozens of helicopters have appeared at a previously free air base in the Russian-occupied Crimea.
The Kilo-class diesel submarine of the Russian fleet Rostov-on-Don passes through the Turkish Bosphorus on February 13 on its way to the Black Sea.
An anti-war demonstration took place in Independence Square in Kyiv on February 12.
Pro-Russian separatists monitored the movement of Ukrainian troops from trenches in Ukraine’s Donbass region on February 11th.
Ukrainian troops unpack Javelin anti-tank missiles, which were delivered to Kyiv on February 10 as part of a US military support package for Ukraine.
Ukrainian servicemen walk in an armored combat vehicle during an exercise in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine on February 10th.