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.
Photos: Chaos and Resistance in Ukraine
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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. #
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Locals 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 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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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. #
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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. #
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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. #
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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. #
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