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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![A soldier waves away the photographer as people in the background spray water on several burning cars.]()
Read moreUkrainian soldiers take positions outside a military facility as two cars burn on a street in Kyiv, Ukraine, on February 26, 2022. #
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![Black smoke and flames rise into the sky at night.]()
Read moreAn oil depot burns after reportedly being hit by shelling near the military airbase Vasylkiv in the Kyiv region, Ukraine, on February 27, 2022. #
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![The body of a Russian serviceman lies partially covered in snow near destroyed military vehicles.]()
Read moreThe body of a Russian serviceman lies near destroyed Russian military vehicles on the roadside on the outskirts of Kharkiv on February 26, 2022. #
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![A long missile body sits inside a wrecked room, after punching through the ceiling.]()
Read moreThe body of a rocket sits stuck in an apartment after recent shelling on the northern outskirts of Kharkiv on February 24, 2022. #
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![A couple dozen people stand in line outside a store, while black smoke rises on the horizon behind them.]()
Read morePeople 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. #
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![An armored personnel carrier burns in a street beside two smaller military vehicles.]()
Read moreA military vehicle burns beside damaged light utility vehicles, abandoned after fighting in Kharkiv, on February 27, 2022. #
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![A man kneels down in a room, arranging piles of military gear.]()
Read moreAnton Lytvyn, a reservist, packs his military equipment at his house after he was called up to active duty in Kyiv on February 23, 2022. #
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![A dark room is filled with men, gathered around a man holding a rifle.]()
Read moreUkrainian civilians wait for their turn to join the ranks of the city territorial defense in Kyiv on February 26, 2022. #
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![People gather among hundreds of empty bottles in a park, preparing them to be used as Molotov cocktails.]()
Read moreLocals gather at Rocket Park in Dnipro, Ukraine, to prepare Molotov cocktails on the fourth day since start of large-scale Russian attacks in the country, on February 27, 2022. #
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![A young couple lean on each other in a dark room, each holding a rifle.]()
Read moreA 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. #
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![Eight or nine people are seen walking on a road, in silhouette]()
Read moreRefugees fleeing conflict in neighboring Ukraine arrive in Przemysl, Poland, on February 26, 2022. #
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![A crowd of people jostles to board a train in a station.]()
Read moreLocal residents board an evacuation train heading to western Ukraine on February 26, 2022, in Kyiv. #
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![A line of cars is seen from above, stretching far into the distance on a road through a forest.]()
Read moreA 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. #
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![A man carries a child on his shoulders as others behind him drag suitcases, all walking beside a long line of cars on a road.]()
Read moreUkrainian refugees walk along vehicles lining up to cross the border from Ukraine into Moldova, at the Mayaky-Udobne border crossing on February 26, 2022. #
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![An emotional woman hugs her two children close, standing in a field near a car.]()
Read moreAnna 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. #
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![A person stands with a bicycle, beside a road, watching military vehicles roll past.]()
Read moreRussian 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, everything damaged and covered in small debris, from a recent explosion.]()
Read moreA 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. #
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![An apartment building with a four-story chunk blown out of its corner, after an explosion]()
Read moreA damaged building in Kyiv on February 26, 2022, after it was reportedly struck by a Russian rocket #
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![Several people, including civilians and a soldier, lie flat on a street, taking cover.]()
Read morePeople take cover as an air-raid siren sounds near an apartment building damaged by recent shelling in Kyiv on February 26, 2022. #
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![Soldiers walk about among debris and burning vehicles on a wide road.]()
Read moreUkrainian 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. #
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Read moreA Ukrainian military medic approaches bodies lying beside and inside a vehicle after a skirmish in Kyiv on February 25, 2022. #
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![Black smoke plumes rise in the distance, beyond city buildings.]()
Read moreSmoke rises after shelling, seen from Kyiv, on February 27, 2022. #
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![Half a dozen people donate blood]()
Read morePeople donate blood for the army at the Blood Service Center in the western-Ukrainian city of Lviv on February 25, 2022. #
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![A person tends to a child, both lying on the floor of a subway station under blankets, wearing winter coats, among others.]()
Read morePeople rest in the Kyiv subway, using it as a bomb shelter on February 24, 2022. #
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![Several people are lying and standing in a makeshift bomb shelter, near space heaters set on poles.]()
Read morePeople 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. #
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![A man and woman embrace beside a train car.]()
Read moreA couple embraces prior to the woman boarding a train leaving for western Ukraine at the railway station in Kramatorsk, on February 27, 2022. #
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![Two soldiers wearing heavy military gear]()
Read moreMembers of the Territorial Defense Forces of Ukraine are seen during a shift change in Kyiv on February 26, 2022. #
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![Two tanks roll down a road, the front one covered in brush for camouflage.]()
Read moreUkrainian tanks move on a road in the Lugansk region on February 26, 2022. #
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![Four older people examine rifles while sitting in a room filled with office furniture.]()
Read moreCivilian volunteers check their guns at a Territorial Defense registration office on February 26, 2022, in Kyiv. #
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![A soldier stands in a street, examining a crumpled missile body.]()
Read moreA 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. #
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![A man whose face is covered in multiple cuts and scrapes]()
Read moreA 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. #
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![A person walks in the middle of a deserted street in central Kyiv.]()
Read moreA person walks in the middle of a deserted street in central Kyiv on February 25, 2022. #
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![More than a dozen people are standing in line outside to buy drinking water.]()
Read morePeople stand in line to buy drinking water in the separatist-controlled city of Donetsk on February 26, 2022. #
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![Two firefighters hose down burning burning debris in front of a damaged building.]()
Read moreFirefighters hose down burning burning debris in front of a damaged building following a rocket attack on Kyiv on February 25, 2022. #
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![A young man wearing a civilian coat stands in a street with a rifle, casting a long shadow.]()
Read moreUkraine's youngest Parliament member, 26-year-old Sviatoslav Yurash, is seen in a street carrying his weapon to defend Kyiv on February 27, 2022. #
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