Pictures: Life in Ukraine
A Ukrainian service member stands in a recessed shelter during a shelling on the front line near the city of Novoluhanske in the Donetsk region, Ukraine on February 22, 2022. (Photo by Gleb Garanich/Reuters)
A local resident walks along a street near the front line near the city of Novoluhanske in the Donetsk region, Ukraine on February 22, 2022. (Photo by Gleb Garanich/Reuters)
A Ukrainian service member stands on the front line near the city of Novoluhanske in the Donetsk region, Ukraine on February 22, 2022. (Photo by Gleb Garanich/Reuters)
A local resident walks along her destroyed house after yesterday’s shelling near the front line near the city of Novoluhanske in the Donetsk region, Ukraine on February 22, 2022. (Photo by Gleb Garanich/Reuters)
A Ukrainian serviceman walks along a street near the front line near the city of Novoluhanske in the Donetsk region, Ukraine on February 22, 2022. (Photo by Gleb Garanich/Reuters)
A woman and a boy react next to the body of Ukrainian Army captain Anton Sydorov, 35, killed in eastern Ukraine, during his funeral, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, February 22, 2022. Western leaders said Tuesday that Russian troops have moved into rebel-held areas in eastern Ukraine after President Vladimir Putin’s recognized their independence – but some indicated it was not yet the long-feared full-fledged invasion as confusion reigned in the region. (Photo by Emilio Morenatti/AP Photo)
A woman holds a Ukrainian passport and a small dog while waiting to cross from Ukrainian government controlled areas to pro-Russian separatists controlled territory in Stanytsia Luhanska, the only crossing point open daily, in the Luhansk region, eastern Ukraine, Tuesday, February 22, 2022. Russia says its recognition of independence for areas in eastern Ukraine extends to territory currently held by Ukrainian forces. The statement Tuesday further raises the stakes amid Western fears that Moscow could follow up to Monday’s recognition of rebel regions with a full-fledged invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by Vadim Ghirda/AP Photo)
A woman walks by a large print at a photographic memorial for those killed in the confrontation between Ukraine’s military and the pro-Russia separatist forces in Sievierodonetsk, Luhansk region, eastern Ukraine, Wednesday, February 23, 2022. Ukraine urged its citizens to leave Russia, and Europe braced for further confrontation Wednesday after tensions escalated dramatically when Russia’s leader received authorization to use military force outside his country and the West responded with a raft of sanctions. (Photo by Vadim Ghirda/AP Photo)
A man walks in Sievierodonetsk, the Luhansk region, eastern Ukraine, Wednesday, February 23, 2022. head of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council called for a nationwide state of emergency – subject to parliamentary approval. (Photo by Vadim Ghirda/AP Photo)
Ukrainian servicemen walk past a sign reading “I love Ukraine” set at Independence Square in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv on February 25, 2022. Russian forces are approaching Kyiv from the north and northeast, Ukraine’s army said, with rising fears the capital could fall on the second day of Moscow’s offensive. (Photo by Sergei Supinsky/AFP Photo)
A woman feeds a child as people fleeing Ukraine arrive in Slovakia through the Ubla border crossing, 25 February 2022. Slovakia said it will let fleeing Ukrainians into the country following Russia’s military operation in Ukraine. The Slovak Police Force announced on social media that people not holding a valid travel document will also be eligible for entry on an individual basis. (Photo by Martin Divisek/EPA/EFE)
A Ukrainian Army soldier inspects fragments of a downed aircraft in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, February 25, 2022. It was unclear what aircraft crashed and what brought it down amid the Russian invasion in Ukraine. Russia is pressing its invasion of Ukraine to the outskirts of the capital after unleashing airstrikes on cities and military bases and sending in troops and tanks from three sides. (Photo by Vadim Zamirovsky/AP Photo)
A woman with a backpack walks in front of a damaged residential building at Koshytsa Street, a suburb of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, where a military shell allegedly hit, on February 25, 2022. Russian forces reached the outskirts of Kyiv on Friday as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the invading troops were targeting civilians and explosions could be heard in the besieged capital. Pre-dawn blasts in Kyiv set off a second day of violence after Russian President Vladimir Putin defied Western warnings to unleash a full-scale ground invasion and air assault on Thursday that quickly claimed dozens of lives and displaced at least 100,000 people. (Photo by Daniel Leal/AFP Photo)
Bodies of Russian servicemen wearing Ukranian service uniform lie inside and beside a vehicle after they forming a raiding party were shot during a skirmish in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv on February 25, 2022, according to Ukrainian service personnel at the scene. Russian forces are approaching Kyiv from the north and northeast, Ukraine’s army said, with rising fears the capital could fall on the second day of Moscow’s offensive. (Photo by Sergei Supinsky/AFP Photo)
A family exits the border after crossing over to flee violence in Ukraine, in Medyka, Poland on February 25, 2022. (Photo by Bryan Woolston/Reuters)
A view shows an apartment building damaged by recent shelling in Kyiv, Ukraine on February 26, 2022. (Photo by Gleb Garanich/Reuters)
Helga Tarasova comforts her daugther Kira Shapovalova as they wait in an undergound shelter during bombing alert in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv on February 26, 2022. Ukrainian soldiers beat back a Russian attack in the capital Kyiv only hours after President Volodymyr Zelensky warns Moscow would attempt to take the city before dawn. (Photo by Daniel Leal/AFP Photo)
Ukrainian service members collect unexploded shells after a fighting with Russian raiding group in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv in the morning of February 26, 2022, according to Ukrainian service personnel at the scene. (Photo by Sergei Supinsky/AFP Photo)
Natali Sevriukova reacts next to her house following a rocket attack in the city of Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, February 25, 2022. (Photo by Emilio Morenatti/AP Photo)
