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Three years of war in Ukraine – in pictures

February 2022
Olena Kurilo after an airstrike on an apartment complex outside Kharkiv on 24 February – the day the invasion began

Photograph: Wolfgang Schwan/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

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March 2022
People cross a destroyed bridge as they evacuate the city of Irpin, north-west of Kyiv, during heavy shelling and bombing on 5 March 2022, 10 days after Russia launched its military invasion of Ukraine. Photograph: Aris Messinis/AFP/Getty Images

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March 2022
The damage at the Retroville shopping mall, a day after it was shelled by Russian forces in a residential district in the north-west of the Ukrainian capital. At least six people were killed in the bombing.

Photograph: Fadel Senna/AFP/Getty Images

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March 2022
Ukrainian emergency workers and volunteers carry an injured pregnant woman from a maternity hospital that was damaged by shelling in Mariupol. The woman and her baby later died.Read photographer Evgeny Maloletka’s account of covering the war in 2022 where he talks about this picture.

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Photograph: Evgeniy Maloletk/AP

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July 2022
Ukrainian soldiers raise the national flag on Snake (Zmiinyi) Island, in the Odesa region

Photograph: Ukrainian Armed Forces/Reuters

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December 2022
An expert of the prosecutor’s office examining collected remnants of shells and missiles used by the Russian army to attack the second-largest Ukrainian city of Kharkiv

Photograph: Aleksey Filippov/AFP/Getty Images

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January 2023
Construction workers climb on to the roof of a destroyed church in the village of Bohorodychne. The village in the Donetsk region came under heavy attack by Russian forces in June 2022, and was captured in August 2022. The armed forces of Ukraine announced on 12 September 2022 that they had retaken the village. A few of its residents came back to restore their destroyed houses and live in the village.

Photograph: Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP/Getty Images

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January 2023
A kitchen inside an apartment block in Dnipro that was heavily damaged by a Russian missile strike

Photograph: Yan Dobronosov/Reuters

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May 2023
People take cover inside a metro station during a Russian rocket attack on Kyiv.

Photograph: Evgeniy Maloletka/AP

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June 2023
Security forces evacuate local people from Kherson by boat after a flood caused by damage to the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant dam

Photograph: Aleksey Filippov/AFP/Getty Images

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September 2023
The city of #Bakhmut, which was totally destroyed by months of intense fighting.

Photograph: Libkos/Getty Images

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October 2023
Workers dig graves for victims of an airstrike at the cemetery in the village of Groza, Kharkiv region. A Russian strike killed at least 52 people who had gathered for a wake after the reburial of a soldier in an eastern Ukrainian village.

Photograph: Genya Savilov/AFP/Getty Images

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March 2024
A woman walks past a memorial wall dedicated to fallen defenders of Ukraine in downtown Kyiv.

Photograph: Sergey Dolzhenko/EPA

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April 2024
Workers install ani-tank systems known as dragon teeth during the construction of new defensive positions close to the Russian border in the Kharkiv region.

Photograph: Evgeniy Maloletka/AP

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People attend a memorial event marking the 3rd anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine at Romanivska Bridge that was destroyed at the beginning of the war in Irpin outside in Kyiv, Ukraine, February 24, 2025. REUTERS/Thomas Peter TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

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