Ukraine War by Nicole Tung

A resident taking shelter at th...n military recaptured the town.

A resident taking shelter at the severely damaged Zymnensky Female Monastery walked through the courtyard, as seen in Sviatohirsk, Ukraine. October 2022. Part of Sviatohirsk was occupied by Russian forces until September 12, when the Ukrainian military recaptured the town.

Friends and family mourned duri...on May 7 in the Luhansk region.

Friends and family mourned during the funeral of Ukrainian solider Dmytro Konobas, 43, while his unit member paid his respects, in Synyak, Ukraine, May 2023. Mr. Konobas was a widely-loved resident of Synyak, who helped villagers by bringing them food while at least 200 people sheltered in a school during the Russian occupation last year. He joined the military after the village was retaken by Ukraine, and was killed on May 7 in the Luhansk region.

Evacuees from eastern villages ...ovsk, Ukraine, September, 2022.

Evacuees from eastern villages and towns aboard a train ferrying displaced civilians in Pokrovsk, Ukraine, September, 2022.

Doctors and medical staff are s...h shrapnel from artillery fire.

Doctors and medical staff are seen treating an injured soldier at a military field hospital in the Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine, October 2022. The service member was hit with shrapnel from artillery fire.

Ukrainian soldiers are seen esc...om the south and western sides.

Ukrainian soldiers are seen escorting a captive, named Aleksandr, 69, on to the west bank of the Siverskyi Donets River, near Lyman, Ukraine, September 2022. Ukrainian soldiers captured him on the frontline, and believe he is a spy for Russian forces. Ukrainian forces recaptured the resort village of Szczurowe, on the eastern side of the Siverskyi Donets River, 10 days ago, and are attempting to recapture the town of Lyman from the south and western sides.

Young patients of Okhmatdyt Chi...e including a 9-year-old girl.

Young patients of Okhmatdyt Children's Hospital on International Children's Day, in Kyiv, Ukraine, June 2023. Okhmatdyt planned festivities and activities for their former and current patients - which include war-wounded children - to mark International Children’s Day. The staff made the decision to move the event to the hospital’s shelter, located in the oncology ward, after concerns for patient safety following the previous night’s strikes and continued air raid sirens earlier today.

Children in Kyiv marked International Children’s Day on Thursday, following another night of attacks, one of which struck a children’s polyclinic, killing 3 people including a 9-year-old girl.

Residents surveyed the damage t...t least 17 people on October 9.

Residents surveyed the damage to their homes while emergency services worked to extinguish fires, after a missile strike hit a residential building overnight in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, October 2022. Several civilians were killed, and another remained missing. Zaporizhzhia has been repeatedly struck in the past few days, with another strike killing at least 17 people on October 9.

Families gathered around coffin...Ukraine in different incidents.

Families gathered around coffins during the funerals for Ukrainian soldiers Andriy Sorokin, Yuriy Rastriopin, and Yuriy Lypka, in Lviv, Ukraine, April 2024. The three men all died while fighting in eastern Ukraine in different incidents.

Drone footage analysts reviewed...y the sheer scale of artillery.

Drone footage analysts reviewed videos obtained by drone operators from a day earlier, in the heavily contested city of Bakhmut, at the Skala Drone Unit headquarters, near Bakhmut, Ukraine, January 2023. Bakhmut, which has seen intense fighting since the summer, has been devastated by thousands of artillery strikes, as Russian forces have mounted numerous attempts to take the city of approximately 73,000 civilians before the invasion last year. On the eastern bank of the river that runs through Bakhmut, the devastation is most apparent where heavy fighting has seen a few hundred yards of territory change hands between Ukrainian and Russian forces over the past few weeks. Few civilians remain, and of those who do, they are desperate for food and aid. Drone units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, including that of the Skala Drone Unit, seek out the enemy in residential buildings, and forests where the trees have been cut down by the sheer scale of artillery.

Ukrainian soldiers gathered Rus...nder Russian control since May.

Ukrainian soldiers gathered Russian flags to dispose of in Lyman, Ukraine, October 2022. Ukrainian forces retook the key railroad hub, under Russian control since May.

Ukrainian soldiers of the 148th...r a town in the Donetsk region.

Ukrainian soldiers of the 148th Separate Artillery Brigade are seen at their firing position in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, March 2024. The artillery crew were firing an M777 howitzer, using American-made cluster munitions, towards Russian forces in an effort to support Ukrainian ground troops fighting to retain control over a town in the Donetsk region.

Ukrainian soldiers suffering fr...ncircle the city to capture it.

Ukrainian soldiers suffering from concussions, likely caused by artillery exploding, were given treatment by medics of the 59th Brigade, while being transported from the mid-way point between the frontline and stabilization point, near Avdiivka, Ukraine, October 2023. Fighting continued around the embattled city of Avdiivka as Russian forces launched another attack on October 19th following their October 10th assault in an attempt to encircle the city to capture it.

A missile hit a large residenti...'s second largest city.

A missile hit a large residential building in Dnipro, Ukraine, on January 14, 2023. Over 40 people were killed in the Russian attack on Ukraine's second largest city.

Anastasiia Korovkina, 6, played...ly been restored to some areas.

Anastasiia Korovkina, 6, played with her father Kostiantyn Korovkin, 38, in the shelter they have resided in since April, in Lyman, Ukraine, on December 31, 2022. The shelter housed nearly 60 people at one point, according to residents, and is now home to 20 people who remain. Since Lyman was retaken in early October, many residents continue living underground as shells fired by Russian forces continue to target the key railway hub. Electricity and water have only been restored to some areas.

A woman lay dead with two dogs ...sian forces in the late spring.

A woman lay dead with two dogs in a doorway of a building, a casualty of Russian shelling, in Bakhmut, Ukraine, January 2023. The woman is believed to have died only fifteen minutes earlier when a rocket struck the shopping center. The Ukrainian stronghold of Bakhmut has been heavily contested between Russian and Ukrainian forces for months. At least 90 percent of the city’s 73,000 people had fled by this time as shelling has intensified. For Ukrainian and Russian forces, Bakhmut was synonymous with a ‘meat grinder’ with artillery and small arms fire causing high casualties on both sides. The city fell to Russian forces in the late spring.

Investigators exhume the bodies...Izium, Ukraine, September 2022.

Investigators exhume the bodies at a site of 445 mostly unmarked and marked graves, as well as one mass grave in Izium, Ukraine, September 2022.

Soldiers of the 43rd Heavy Arti...re both key industrial centers.

Soldiers of the 43rd Heavy Artillery Brigade, which are part of the Ukrainian Ground Forces, operated a 2S7 Pion cannon, firing shells towards Russian fortifications inside the city of Kreminna, from an area west of the city, December 2022. Fighting has surged between the Ukrainian military and Russian forces as they battle for the city of Kreminna, Russia has occupied since the summer. Kreminna is a gateway to two much larger cities nearby, Sieverodonetsk and Lysychansk, which are both key industrial centers.

Sereda Snizhana, 28, with her t...ssian forces occupied the town.

Sereda Snizhana, 28, with her two children Artem, 2, and Ilona, 4, in their home in Dudchany, Ukraine, October 2022. Snizhana and her family lived for months without electricity, water, and gas while Russian forces occupied the town.

Rescuers at the scene of a miss... Dnipro, Ukraine, January 2023.

Rescuers at the scene of a missile strike, which hit a large residential building in Dnipro, Ukraine, January 2023.

Volunteers removed the body of ...vdiivka, Ukraine, October 2023.

Volunteers removed the body of Vitaliy Konovalov from a shed behind his home in Avdiivka, Ukraine, October 2023.

Investigators exhume the bodies at a site of 445 mostly unmarked and marked graves, as well as one mass grave in Izium, Ukraine, September 2022.

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NYTUKRAINE Olha Bihar (left), 31, call sign

NYTUKRAINE Kateryna, 21, a lieu...st female combat pilot. Ukraine

NYTUKRAINE Kateryna, 21, a lieutenant and co-pilot of an Mi-8 medical evacuation helicopter, is seen at an airfield in the Kharkiv region, Ukraine, on Wednesday, November 1, 2023. Kateryna provided only her first name as she does not yet have a military call sign. Kateryna, who graduated from military academy a month earlier, had yet to fly her first medevac mission, but hopes to become Ukraine’s first female combat pilot. Ukraine

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Soldiers of the 43rd Heavy Artillery Brigade, which is part of the Ukrainian Ground Forces, moved their 2S7 Pion cannon to open ground from where they would fire shells towards Russian fortifications inside the city of Kreminna, from an area west of the city, December 2022. Fighting has surged between the Ukrainian military and Russian forces as they battle for the city of Kreminna, Russia has occupied since the summer. Kreminna is a gateway to two much larger cities nearby, Sieverodonetsk and Lysychansk, which are both key industrial centers.

A kindergarten classroom is see...e a withdrawal from the region.

A kindergarten classroom is seen emblazoned with the Russian military symbol ‘Z’ in Kapytolivka, Ukraine, September 2022. Russian forces occupied the kindergarten and school next door when they entered the city in March, and used it as a base until withdrawing earlier this month.

Izium, a city of approximately 46,000 before the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February, was recently recaptured by Ukrainian forces in their offensive across the Kharkiv region, retaking approximately 3,000 square kilometers in a matter of days as Russian forces made a withdrawal from the region.

Residents of Kyiv walked throug... of a Russian attack.

Residents of Kyiv walked through a trench lined by cherry blossoms, May 2023. The defenses were dug in the park early on in the war by the Ukrainian military to defend the city in case of a Russian attack.

Husband and wife Leonid (right)...om water, gas, and electricity.

Husband and wife Leonid (right), 71, and Valentyna (left), 70, are seen in a temporary housing facility for internally displaced persons in Kharkiv, Ukraine, September 2022. Leonid and Valentyna fled Kupiansk days earlier as the town has become the front-line between Ukrainian and Russian forces, forcing residents to endure near constant shelling, and cutting them off from water, gas, and electricity.

A Ukrainian state emergency ser...n the Kharkiv region.

A Ukrainian state emergency serviceman is seen collecting unexploded ordinance from the side of a road, near Izium, Ukraine, September 2022. Ukrainian forces have taken approximately 3,000 square kilometers during its counter-offensive in the Kharkiv region.

Ukrainian soldiers evacuated an...aine, September 2022.

Ukrainian soldiers evacuated an injured service member from eastern Kupiansk, Ukraine, September 2022.

A Ukrainian soldier sat in his ...stern Kharkiv region.

A Ukrainian soldier sat in his car in front of a destroyed home in Velyka Oleksandrivka, Ukraine, October 2022. Ukrainian forces recaptured the town, after crossing the Inhulets River, as Russian forces withdrew two days earlier. The Ukrainian military has been making substantial gains in the south of the country, coming weeks after a successful counter-offensive, retaking large swaths in the eastern Kharkiv region.

Ukrainian soldiers at lunch in ...n the Kherson region.

Ukrainian soldiers at lunch in the garden of local residents who cooked meals for the troops, in Novomykolaivka, Ukraine, on October 2022. Novomykolaivka was retaken by Ukrainian troops four days ago, as Russian forces withdrew on the southern frontline, turning the village into a make-shift garrison as Kyiv continues a counter-offensive in the Kherson region.

Soldiers of the 43rd Heavy Arti...y industrial centers.

Soldiers of the 43rd Heavy Artillery Brigade, which is part of the Ukrainian Ground Forces, unloaded shells and primers for a 2S7 Pion cannon to fire shells towards Russian fortifications inside the city of Kreminna, from an area west of Kreminna, Ukraine, on December 31, 2022. Fighting has surged between the Ukrainian military and Russian forces as they battle for the city of Kreminna, Russia has occupied since the summer. Kreminna is a gateway to two much larger cities nearby, Sieverodonetsk and Lysychansk, which are both key industrial centers.

Family members, friends, and to...um in Kharkiv Oblast.

Family members, friends, and town residents attend the funeral of soldier Oleksandr Panichenko, 28, in Borodyanka, Ukraine, May 2022. Oleksandr was a policeman before joining the Ukrainian armed forces in March of this year. He died from injuries sustained during shelling on May 15, in the village of Dovgenko, near Izyum in Kharkiv Oblast.

Wooden crosses marked with numb...ns at the site today.

Wooden crosses marked with numbers, and some with names, are seen in the recently exhumed graves at the mass grave site where police say approximately 457 bodies of mostly civilians, as well as several Ukrainian soldiers, have been recovered in the past week in Izium, Ukraine, September 2022. Some exhumed bodies were found to have signs of torture on them. Investigators finished their final day of exhumations at the site today.

Ukrainian service member Viktor...le working at the same company.

Ukrainian service member Viktor, who did not wish to disclose his surname or military rank, embraces with Yuliia Safonova before signing their marriage papers at the Civil Registry Office in Kyiv, Ukraine, September 2022. Yuliia, who is a sales manager at an international company, said the couple met five years ago while working at the same company.

Ukrainian service members worke...of Kreminna, in Luhansk region.

Ukrainian service members worked to move equipment and parts from a broken down T-72 tank (left) to a functioning one, as seen in a village in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, January 2023. Almost all battalions stationed in the village are fighting on the frontline for the gateway city of Kreminna, in Luhansk region.

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