A man cycled past a destroyed apartment building in the town of Borodyanka, just days after Russian forces withdrew from the area and abandoned their attempt to invade Kyiv. As many as 200 people were said to have been killed by Russian air attacks on the town. April, 2022.
Locals came out of their houses or stopped on the street to pay their respects as a funeral procession for a Ukrainian soldier passed through the town of Yavoriv in western Ukraine. March, 2022.
Women and children, many of them from the besieged city of Kharkiv in eastern Ukraine, sheltered in a waiting hall at Lviv train station after arriving on evacuation trains. March, 2022.
Firefighters battled to put out a blaze in a residential area after an early morning Russian bombardment in the Nyvky district of western Kyiv. March, 2022.
Ukrainian soldiers kept an eye on the horizon and manned a checkpoint at a frontline position on the north eastern edge of Kyiv. March, 2022.
A man recuperated in a hospital in Kyiv, having been shot in the leg three times by Russian forces while trying to flee the besieged suburb of Irpin. March, 2022.
Debris littered the ground at a heavily destroyed gas station on the main highway leading west out of Kyiv. Russian forces were driven from the area just 2 days before, as they abandoned their attempt to take the capital and retreated back across the border with Belarus. April, 2022.
The burnt corpse of a 22-year-old Russian soldier was retrieved from the destroyed remnants of a tank on the western outskirts of Kyiv. Russian forces were driven from the area just 2 days before, as they abandoned their attempt to take the capital and retreated back across the border with Belarus. April, 2022.
Destroyed civilian cars littered a main road leading out of town of Bucha, just days after Russian forces withdrew from the area. April, 2022.
A dog sniffed the body of a man that lay in the back garden of a house in Bucha. It was unclear who he was but a local man claimed it was the body of Russian soldier who had changed into civilian clothing in order to try and escape. April, 2022.
Several days after Russian forces had been driven from the area, a group of local women in the village of Nova Basan waited for fresh meat to be delivered for the first time in more than a month. April, 2022.
Antonina Pomazanko looked down at the half buried body of her daughter, Tetiana, which lay virtually where she had fallen after being shot by Russian forces when they entered Bucha on the 27th of February. Antonina had dug the shallow grave herself and covered the body with plastic sheeting and pieces of wood. She was helped to uncover the body in order to show officials who were visiting Bucha to document war crimes. April, 2022.
A column of Ukrainian armoured fighting vehicles and tanks moved through the destroyed streets of Bucha several days after Russian forces had withdrawn from the area. April, 2022.
The body of a middle aged man, with a gunshot wound to the head, lay on the side of the road just outside the town of Bucha. Russian troops are thought to have killed hundreds of unarmed civilians during their month long occupation of the area. April, 2022.
The remnants of a destroyed Russian military column, that was hit by Ukrainian forces when Russian troops initially entered the town of Bucha, was seen in the initial days after the area was liberated. April, 2022.
A statue of Jesus on the cross stood, riddled with bullet holes, beside a former Ukrainian checkpoint on the outskirts of the village of Bohdanivka, just north of Brovary, an eastern suburb of Kyiv. May, 2022.
Family and friends of Volodymyr Prymachenko looked on during his funeral at Lukyanivsky Military Cemetery in Kyiv. Mr. Prymachenko was killed on June 5th, near Bakhmut in the Donetsk region of Ukraine. June, 2022.
Oleksandr Kornienko’s family home, in the village of Velyka Dymerka, was destroyed in a rocket attack in early March, shortly after Russian forces had taken over the area. Although unverifiable, given that Russian forces were occupying the area it is likely the strike was carried out by Ukrainian forces. Oleksandr’s grandmother and uncle died in the same bombing in their house next door. May, 2022.
A gun crew of the 55th Separate Artillery Brigade of the Ukrainian army, fired a US supplied M777 Howitzer towards Russian positions in the Donetsk region of Ukraine. May, 2022.
The body of a Russian soldier lay in the garden of a house in the recaptured village of Novopil, which local volunteer fighters had won back several days before. May, 2022.
Elderly and sick civilians, along with their children and carers, boarded an MSF run medical evacuation train in Pokrovsk, in the Donetsk region of Ukraine. May, 2022.
Mykola Telegin cleared up debris in his daughters apartment after a Russian strike hit a residential area in Sloviansk. 3 people were said to have been killed in the attack, with another 6 injured. May, 2022.
Mykola Holovko and his son sat in front of their destroyed home, having salvaged what they could from the wreckage after a Russian missile landed across the street during the night. June, 2022.
Volunteers from Britain and Ukraine working with the aid organisation Vostok-SOS carried Zinaida Riabtseva, who is 77, blind and struggled to walk down five flights of stairs, during an evacuation mission in Bakhmut. May, 2022.
A monk walked past the doorway of a badly damaged building within the Sviatohirsk monastery, which at the time was on the front line between Lyman and Sloviansk. Although allegiant to the Russian branch of the Orthodox Church, the monastery complex routinely came under fire from Russian troops and at least 3 monks and a nun had been killed before the area was liberated in the Autumn of 2022. June, 2022.
Medics at a hospital in Sloviansk worked to stabilise a Ukrainian soldier who had been wounded in the leg and torso by shrapnel from a Russian artillery strike. June, 2022.
An unexploded Russian rocket protruded out of the pavement in the city of Lysychansk. June, 2022.
A Ukrainian artillery crew member ran for cover, having helped to camouflage a 122mm artillery gun after firing on Russian positions near the city of Izium. May, 2022.
A Ukrainian soldier climbed atop an abandoned Russian tank in the Seversky Donets river in order to salvage a heavy machine gun left behind. Several weeks earlier, Ukrainian forces inflicted heavy losses on a Russian battalion here, while they were attempting to cross the river using pontoon bridges. May, 2022.
Foreign volunteer fighters with the Carpathian Sich battalion prepared to move towards a new position near the town of Lyman. The men had been part of a sweeping counter offensive that had routed Russian forces in the previous several weeks in the Kharkiv region of eastern Ukraine. October, 2022.
A man stood in front of a heavily destroyed building after collecting humanitarian aid in the recently liberated city of Izium in Ukraine’s east. Russian forces were routed from the area after more than six months of occupation. October, 2022.
People walked back and forth across a heavily destroyed bridge, that had been painted the colours of the Russian flag and then subsequently blown up by retreating Russian forces, in the recently recaptured city of Kupiansk. October, 2022.
The bodies of two Russian soldiers lay near the side of the road on the eastern outskirts of Kupiansk. The area had been recaptured by Ukrainian forces several weeks earlier and fighting continued nearby. October, 2022.
Russian troops spray painted the letter Z, which has become the symbol of their invasion of Ukraine, all over the home of a Ukrainian military family, as they sought to intimidate the wife into giving up her husbands whereabouts. October, 2022.
War crimes investigators conducted a preliminary examination, having exhumed the body of Serhii Avdeev, who was abducted and killed by Russian forces near his home village of Borova in Ukraine’s east. October, 2022.
87-year-old Anna wept as she recalled surviving a Russian missile strike that hit the house next door and badly destroyed her families home in Kupiansk. October, 2022.
Serhii and his wife Iryna chatted with a neighbour, one of only a handful of people who were still living in the heavily destroyed village of Kamyanka. October, 2022.
Soldiers with a reconnaissance unit of the 129th Brigade Territorial Defence Forces, returned to the village where they would stay for the night before going on an operation the next day on the frontline in the Kherson region of Ukraine. October, 2022.
A woman walked past destroyed houses in the town of Velyka Oleksandrivka, that was liberated from Russian control earlier that month. October, 2022.
Graffiti on a wall in the basement of a school where Russian troops lived stated “Soon we’ll return”, in Russian. October, 2022.
Members of a special forces unit of the Bratsvo battalion, returned after conducting a night time operation targeting Russian forces behind the frontline, along the banks of the Dnipro river in southern Ukraine. October, 2022.
People who had remained in the liberated city of Kherson, lined up to receive hot soup at a handout organised by Volunteers. Although liberated in mid November 2022, the situation in Kherson deteriorated as Russian forces began to shell the city regularly. February, 2022.
Firefighters worked to put out a blaze at a shopping mall that was destroyed in an overnight strike by Russian troops. February, 2022.
Smoke and dust wafted in the air seconds after a Russian shell landed near the road in the Antonivka suburb of Kherson. February, 2022.
The bodies of a two men lay on the sidewalk shortly after they were killed in a Russian artillery strike that landed in a residential neighbourhood of Kherson city. February, 2022.
Yurii Melster visited the graves of his son and daughter in law, who are buried side by side in the military section of the cemetery in Kropyvnytskyi. The couple joined the local volunteer force soon after the Russian invasion and in the end they died side by side in a trench in the east of Ukraine. February, 2022.
An overturned military car lay on side of the road in the heavily destroyed village of Posad-Pokrovske near Kherson. February, 2022.