- Alan Taylor
- February 27, 2022
- 35 Photos
- In Focus
Four days have passed since the beginning of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The United Nations estimates that more than 150,000 people have fled to neighboring countries. Many civilians who remain in the country are working to build a resistance, training and stocking up, while Ukraine’s military appears to be putting up a fierce defense. Gathered below are images of the ongoing Russian invasion, seen across Ukraine over the past several days. A warning: some of the images are graphic in nature.
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Ukrainian soldiers take positions outside a military facility as two cars burn on a street in Kyiv, Ukraine, on February 26, 2022. #
Emilio Morenatti / AP
An oil depot burns after reportedly being hit by shelling near the military airbase Vasylkiv in the Kyiv region, Ukraine, on February 27, 2022. #
Maksim Levin / Reuters
The body of a Russian serviceman lies near destroyed Russian military vehicles on the roadside on the outskirts of Kharkiv on February 26, 2022. #
Sergey Bobok / AFP / Getty
The body of a rocket sits stuck in an apartment after recent shelling on the northern outskirts of Kharkiv on February 24, 2022. #
Sergey Bobok / AFP / Getty
People stand in line in front of a supermarket while smoke billows over the town of Vasylkiv, just outside Kyiv, on February 27, 2022, after overnight Russian strikes hit an oil depot. #
Dimitar Dilkoff / AFP / Getty
A military vehicle burns beside damaged light utility vehicles, abandoned after fighting in Kharkiv, on February 27, 2022. #
Marienko Andrew / AP
Anton Lytvyn, a reservist, packs his military equipment at his house after he was called up to active duty in Kyiv on February 23, 2022. #
Chris McGrath / Getty
Ukrainian civilians wait for their turn to join the ranks of the city territorial defense in Kyiv on February 26, 2022. #
Mikhail Palinchak / AP
Locals gather at Rocket Park in Dnipro, Ukraine, to prepare Molotov co*cktails on the fourth day since start of large-scale Russian attacks in the country, on February 27, 2022. #
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A newly married couple, Svyatoslav Fursinb and Yarina Arieva, pose for a photo after they joined the ranks of the city territorial defense the day after they got married in Kyiv, on February 25, 2022. #
Mikhail Palinchak / AP
Refugees fleeing conflict in neighboring Ukraine arrive in Przemysl, Poland, on February 26, 2022. #
Petr David Josek / AP
Local residents board an evacuation train heading to western Ukraine on February 26, 2022, in Kyiv. #
Pierre Crom / Getty
A screen grab from drone footage shows cars forming a line that stretches some 22 miles (35 kilometers) from the Shehyni border crossing to Poland as people try to flee Russia's military operation outside Mostyska, Ukraine, on February 26, 2022. #
Natalie Thomas / Reuters
Ukrainian refugees walk along vehicles lining up to cross the border from Ukraine into Moldova, at the Mayaky-Udobne border crossing on February 26, 2022. #
Sergei Grits / AP
Anna Semyuk hugs her children at the Beregsurany border crossing in Hungary on February 26, 2022. The children were handed off on the Ukrainian side of the border by the father—who was not allowed to cross—to Nataliya Ableyeva, a stranger to the family, who brought the children across the border and kept them safe. #
Bernadett Szabo / Reuters
Russian military vehicles are seen in Armyansk, Crimea, on February 25, 2022. #
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A man reacts on the phone as he stands by a body stretched out on the ground after bombings in the eastern-Ukraine town of Chuguiv on February 24, 2022. #
Aris Messinis / AFP / Getty
A damaged building in Kyiv on February 26, 2022, after it was reportedly struck by a Russian rocket #
Daniel Leal / AFP / Getty
People take cover as an air-raid siren sounds near an apartment building damaged by recent shelling in Kyiv on February 26, 2022. #
Gleb Garanich / Reuters
Ukrainian service members collect unexploded shells after a battle with a Russian raiding group in Kyiv on the morning of February 26, 2022, according to Ukrainian service personnel at the scene. #
Sergei Supinsky / AFP / Getty
A Ukrainian military medic approaches bodies lying beside and inside a vehicle after a skirmish in Kyiv on February 25, 2022. #
Sergei Supinsky / AFP / Getty
Smoke rises after shelling, seen from Kyiv, on February 27, 2022. #
Mykhailo Markiv / Reuters
People donate blood for the army at the Blood Service Center in the western-Ukrainian city of Lviv on February 25, 2022. #
Yuriy Dyachyshyn / AFP / Getty
People rest in the Kyiv subway, using it as a bomb shelter on February 24, 2022. #
Emilio Morenatti / AP
People lie on mattresses in an underground hotel parking lot that has been turned into a bomb shelter, during an air-raid alert in Kyiv on February 27, 2022. #
Vadim Ghirda / AP
A couple embraces prior to the woman boarding a train leaving for western Ukraine at the railway station in Kramatorsk, on February 27, 2022. #
Andriy Andriyenko / AP
Members of the Territorial Defense Forces of Ukraine are seen during a shift change in Kyiv on February 26, 2022. #
Mikhail Palinchak / Reuters
Ukrainian tanks move on a road in the Lugansk region on February 26, 2022. #
Anatolii Stepanov / AFP / Getty
Civilian volunteers check their guns at a Territorial Defense registration office on February 26, 2022, in Kyiv. #
Chris McGrath / Getty
A militant of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic inspects the remains of a missile that landed on a street in the separatist-controlled city of Donetsk, Ukraine, on February 26, 2022. #
Alexander Ermochenko / Reuters
A man collects belongings in his bedroom, which was damaged by a missile in Kyiv on February 25, 2022. His face was wounded by an exploding window. #
Pierre Crom / Getty
A person walks in the middle of a deserted street in central Kyiv on February 25, 2022. #
Daniel Leal / AFP / Getty
People stand in line to buy drinking water in the separatist-controlled city of Donetsk on February 26, 2022. #
Alexander Ermochenko / Reuters
Firefighters hose down burning burning debris in front of a damaged building following a rocket attack on Kyiv on February 25, 2022. #
Ukrainian Police Department Press Service / AP
Ukraine's youngest Parliament member, 26-year-old Sviatoslav Yurash, is seen in a street carrying his weapon to defend Kyiv on February 27, 2022. #
Aytac Unal / Anadolu Agency / Getty
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