On February 24, 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine. In the three months that followed, the country’s cities and landscapes were transformed by bombardment, violence and civil defences. Meanwhile, the lives of ordinary Ukrainians have also been turned upside down, with millions of refugees forced from their homes or living under the constant threat of bombardment.
Kharkov
People walk past a damaged residential building in the Saltivka district, north of Kharkiv.
Dimitar DILKOFF / AFP
Kharkov
A woman carries bags of food as she walks in Saltivka district, north of Kharkiv.
Dimitar DILKOFF / AFP
Severodonetsk
A man sits next to his horse during a nearby mortar shelling in Severodonetsk, eastern Ukraine.
Yasuyoshi CHIBA / AFP
Kharkov
A vendor talks on the phone as he arranges his products, household chemicals and cosmetics, on a table outside his destroyed store in one of Europe’s largest clothing markets ‘Barabashovo’ in Kharkiv amid of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
SERGEY BOBOK / AFP
Ruska Lozova
A man in front of a destroyed bridge on the road near the village of Ruska Lozova, north of Kharkiv.
Dimitar DILKOFF / AFP
Kharkov
Members of the Ukrainian Territorial Defense Force guard a position in northern Kharkiv, Ukraine.
Bernat Armangue/AP Photo/TASS
Mariupol
A tank crew of the People’s Militia of the Donetsk People’s Republic drives down one of the streets of Mariupol.
Vladimir Gerdo/TASS
sydorove
Ukrainian biology professor Oleksiy Polyakov, 84, reads the book titled ‘200 Wonderful and Amazing Places’ at the entrance to his root cellar-turned-shelter in Sydorove, eastern Ukraine.
Yasuyoshi CHIBA / AFP
Odessa
A girl is reflected in a puddle as she walks in the Ukrainian city of Odessa on the Black Sea.
Oleksandr GIMANOV / AFP
Bakhmut
An elderly woman stands in front of her heavily damaged home after it was hit by a missile in the town of Bakhmut in Ukraine’s Donbass region.
ARIS MESSINIS / AFP
Kherson
A Russian serviceman standing guard with his family walks on a promenade along the Dnipro River in Kherson, Ukraine.
SERGEI ILNITSKY / EPA / TASS
Skadovsk
A woman and child walk in a park as Russian servicemen patrol the streets of Skadovsk, Kherson Oblast, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Olga MALTSEVA / AFP
Vilkivka
A man walks past a solar power plant destroyed in a bombardment in the village of Vilkhivka near Kharkiv.
SERGEY BOBOK / AFP
Lviv
People walk past the National Gallery of Art in Lviv with windows protected by sandbags in the western city of Lviv.
Yuriy Diachyshyn / AFP
Lysychansk
A mortar explodes next to the road leading to the town of Lysychansk in the Donbass region in eastern Ukraine.
ARIS MESSINIS / AFP
