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 March 2 in the street of a neighborhood that was damaged by airstrikes in Gorenka, Ukraine.
Displaced Ukrainians take shelter in an auditorium in Lviv, Ukraine, on March 2.
A member of Ukraine’s Territorial Defense Forces inspects damage in the backyard of a house in Gorenka on March 2.
A Ukrainian woman takes her children over the border in Siret, Romania, on March 2. Many Ukrainians are fleeing the country at a pace that could turn into “Europe’s largest refugee crisis this century,” the United Nations Refugee Agency said.
Andrey Goncharuk, a 68-year-old member of Ukraine’s Territorial Defense Forces, clutches a hunting rifle March 2 while coming out of a small basement of a Gorenka house crowded with people seeking shelter from Russian airstrikes and shelling.
People wait at a train station in Kyiv on March 2.
Local militiamen help an elderly woman cross a bridge that had been destroyed by artillery on the outskirts of Kyiv on March 2.
Ukrainian soldiers attend Mass at an Orthodox monastery in Kyiv on March 1.
Medical workers show a mother her newborn after she gave birth at 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 seen in Kharkiv, Ukraine, after Russian shelling on March 1. Russian forces have scaled up their bombardment of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city.
Ukrainian emergency workers carry a body of a victim following shelling that hit the City Hall building in Kharkiv on March 1.
A woman named Helen comforts her 8-year-old daughter, Polina, in the bomb shelter of a Kyiv children’s hospital on March 1. The girl was at the hospital being treated for encephalitis, or inflammation of the brain.
Ukrainian refugees try to stay warm at the Medyka border crossing in Poland on March 1.
Passengers anxiously board trains in Kyiv before heading to destinations in the western part of the country on Monday, February 28.
A bridge is destroyed near the town of Bucha, Ukraine, 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 loads rifle magazines in Kyiv on February 28.
Ukrainian forces order a man to the ground on February 28 as they increased security measures amid Russian attacks in Kyiv.
Mothers tend to their babies in the bomb shelter of a children’s hospital in Kyiv on February 28.
Ukrainian forces are seen inside a basement being used as a military base in Dnipro, Ukraine, on February 28.
Smoke billows over the Ukrainian city of Vasylkiv, just outside Kyiv on Sunday, February 27. A fire at an oil storage area was seen raging at the Vasylkiv Air Base.
A couple embraces at a railway station in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, on February 27. The woman was about to board a train heading west.
People wait on a platform inside the railway station in Lviv on February 27. Thousands of people at Lviv’s main train station attempted to board trains that would take them out of Ukraine.
A Russian armored vehicle burns after fighting in Kharkiv on February 27. Street fighting broke out as Russian troops entered Ukraine’s second-largest city, and residents were urged to stay in shelters and not travel.
Local residents prepare Molotov cocktails in Uzhhorod, Ukraine, on February 27.
Cars line up on the road outside Mostyska, Ukraine, as people attempt to flee to Poland on February 27.
Ukrainian troops in Kyiv escort a prisoner February 27 who they suspected of being a Russian agent.
Ukrainian service members take position at the Vasylkiv Air Base near Kyiv on February 27.
A woman sleeps on chairs February 27 in the underground parking lot of a Kyiv hotel that has been turned into a bomb shelter.
Ukrainian service members take cover in a shelter at the Vasylkiv Air Base near Kyiv on Saturday, February 26.
A damaged residential building is seen in Kyiv on February 26.
People in Kyiv run for cover during shelling on February 26.
An apartment building in Kyiv is seen after it was damaged by shelling on February 26. The outer walls of several apartment units appeared to be blown out entirely, with the interiors blackened and debris hanging loose.
A police vehicle patrols the streets of Kyiv on February 26.
Ukrainian troops inspect a site following a Russian airstrike in Kyiv on February 26.
Following a national directive to help complicate the invading Russian Army’s attempts to navigate, a road worker removes signs near Pisarivka, Ukraine, on February 26.
Members of the Territorial Defense Force — Ukraine’s military reserve — prepare to defend Kyiv on February 26.
Ukrainian service members collect unexploded shells after fighting with advancing Russian troops in Kyiv early on February 26.
Ukrainian service members look for and collect unexploded shells after fighting in Kyiv on February 26.
The body of a Russian soldier lies next to a Russian vehicle outside Kharkiv on February 25.
A woman weeps in her car after crossing the border from Ukraine into Sighetu Marmatiei, Romania, on February 25.
A Ukrainian soldier sits injured from crossfire inside Kyiv on February 25.
A child from Ukraine sleeps in a tent at a humanitarian center in Palanca, Moldova, on February 25.
A firefighter walks between the ruins of a downed aircraft in Kyiv on February 25.
Members of the Ukrainian National Guard take positions in central Kyiv on February 25.
People walk past a residential building in Kyiv that was hit in an alleged Russian airstrike on February 25.
The body of a school employee, who according to locals was killed in recent shelling, lies in the separatist-controlled town of Horlivka in Ukraine’s Donetsk region on February 25.
Kyiv residents take shelter in an underground parking garage on February 25.
A wounded woman stands outside a hospital after an attack on the eastern Ukrainian town of Chuhuiv, outside of Kharkiv, on Thursday, February 24.
The body of a rocket remains in an apartment after shelling on the northern outskirts of Kharkiv on February 24.
A boy plays with his tablet in a public basement used as a bomb shelter in Kyiv on February 24.
A man mourns after an airstrike reportedly hit an apartment complex in Chuhuiv on February 24.
Rescuers work at a crash site on February 24 after a Ukrainian military plane fell and caught fire outside of Kyiv, according to the Ukrainian State Emergency Service. The cause of the crash wasn’t indicated.
Ukrainian service members sit atop armored vehicles driving in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region on February 24.
People in Kyiv try to board a bus to travel west toward Poland on February 24.
People seek shelter inside a subway station in Kharkiv on February 24.
Firefighters attempt to extinguish a fire after a reported strike in Chuhuiv on February 24.
People wait after boarding a bus to leave Kyiv on February 24.
Police officers inspect the remains of a missile that landed in Kyiv on February 24.
A staff member of a Kyiv hotel talks on the phone on February 24.
People wait in line to buy train tickets at the central station in Kyiv 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 is seen February 23 in the Rostov region of Russia, which runs along Ukraine’s eastern border.
Ukrainian soldiers talk in a shelter at the front line near Svitlodarsk, Ukraine, on February 23.
Smoke rises from a damaged power plant in Shchastya that Ukrainian authorities say was hit by shelling on February 22.
A damaged house is worked on after shelling near the Ukrainian front-line city of Novoluhanske on February 22.
Ukrainian soldiers pay their respects during Sydorov’s funeral in Kyiv on February 22.
Russian howitzers are loaded onto train cars near Taganrog, Russia, on February 22.
Protesters demanding economic sanctions against Russia stand outside the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Kyiv on February 21. Only a small number of protesters showed up to demonstrate.
Activists hold a performance in front of the Russian embassy in Kyiv on February 21 in support of prisoners who were arrested in Crimea. They say the red doors are a symbol of the doors that were kicked in to search and arrest Crimean Tatars, a Muslim ethnic minority.
Ukrainian servicemen shop in the front-line town of Avdiivka, Ukraine, on February 21.
People lay flowers at the Motherland Monument in Kyiv on February 21.
A local resident shows the depth of a crater from shelling in a field behind his house in the village of Tamarchuk, Ukraine, on February 20.
Ukrainian service members are seen along the front line outside of Popasna, Ukraine, on February 20.
People evacuated from the pro-Russian separatist regions of Ukraine are seen at a temporary shelter in Taganrog, Russia, on February 20.
Anastasia Manha lulls her 2-month-old son Mykyta after alleged shelling by separatists forces in Novohnativka, Ukraine, on February 20.
A Ukrainian soldier stays on position on the front line near Novohnativka on February 20.
A couple arrives at the city council to get married in Odessa, Ukraine, on February 20. As Ukrainian authorities reported further ceasefire violations and top Western officials warned about an impending conflict, life went on in other parts of the country.
A woman rests in a car near a border checkpoint in Avilo-Uspenka, Russia, on February 19.
A Ukrainian service member walks by a building on February 19 that was hit by mortar fire in the front-line village of Krymske, Ukraine.
Fighter jets fly over Belarus during a joint military exercise the country held with Russia on February 19.
Ukrainian soldiers stand guard at a military command center in Novoluhanske on February 19.
People sit on a bus in Donetsk on February 18 after they were ordered to evacuate to Russia by pro-Russian separatists.
Children play on old Soviet tanks in front of the Motherland Monument in Kyiv on February 16.
Ambassadors of European countries lay roses at the Wall of Remembrance in Kyiv on February 16. The wall contains the names and photographs of military members who have died since the conflict with Russian-backed separatists began in 2014.
US troops walk on the tarmac at the Rzeszów-Jasionka Airport in southeastern Poland on February 16. US paratroopers landed in Poland as part of a deployment of several thousand sent to bolster NATO’s eastern flank in response to tensions with Russia.
A 200-meter-long Ukrainian flag is unfolded at the Olympic Stadium in Kyiv on February 16 to mark a “Day of Unity,” an impromptu celebration declared by President Volodymyr 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 child walk underneath a military monument in Senkivka, Ukraine, on February 14. It’s on the outskirts of the Three Sisters border crossing between Ukraine, Russia and Belarus.
Ukrainian service members talk at a front-line position in eastern Ukraine on February 14.
Members of Ukraine’s National Guard look out a window as they ride a bus through the capital of Kyiv on February 14.
Satellite images taken on February 13 by Maxar Technologies revealed that dozens of helicopters had appeared at a previously vacant airbase in Russian-occupied Crimea.
The Russian navy’s diesel-electric Kilo-class submarine, Rostov-on-Don, moves through Turkey’s Bosphorus Strait en route to the Black Sea on February 13.
An anti-war demonstration takes place in Kyiv’s Independence Square on February 12.
Pro-Russian separatists observe the movement of Ukrainian troops from trenches in Ukraine’s Donbas area on February 11.
Ukrainian service members unpack Javelin anti-tank missiles that were delivered to Kyiv on February 10 as part of a US military support package for Ukraine.
Ukrainian service members walk on an armored fighting vehicle during a training exercise in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region on February 10.
