More than five weeks since the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, an estimated 4.2 million people have fled the country, millions more have been internally displaced, and thousands have been injured or killed. Many have remained behind to volunteer and fight, while others are unable or unwilling to leave. Below, a collection of recent images showing some of the faces of the millions of Ukrainians affected by the ongoing conflict.
Faces of Ukraine
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Ukrainian army soldier Dasha, 22, checks her phone after a military sweep to search for possible remnants of Russian troops after their withdrawal from villages on the outskirts of Kyiv, on April 1, 2022. #
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A monument of Taras Shevchenko, a Ukrainian poet and a national symbol, is covered with bags to protect it from Russian shelling in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on March 27, 2022. #
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Newlyweds Nastya Gracheva and Anton Sokolov, a nurse in an oncology clinic and a doctor, respectively, before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, now medical volunteers, pose for a photograph in a ruined courtyard of a shopping and office complex in central Kharkiv on April 3, 2022. From the beginning of the Russian invasion, they have provided free medical care to those in need at home, and when they ran out of medicine, they collected money to purchase more. #
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Anastasia Yevdokimova, 21, from Odesa, pauses during an interview with the Associated Press, in Brasov, Romania, on March 30, 2022. Having escaped from Russian shelling, Ukrainian refugees are now focused on building new lives—temporarily or permanently. Countries neighboring their homeland, such as Poland and Romania, are helping them integrate and feel needed in the new environment. #
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Ukainian President Volodymyr Zelensky stands in the town of Bucha, northwest of Kyiv, on April 4, 2022. Zelensky said on April 3 that the Russian leadership was responsible for civilian killings in Bucha, where bodies were found lying in the street after the town was retaken by the Ukrainian army. #
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Tanya Nedashkivska reacts as she mourns her husband, Vasyl Ivanovych, who served in the navy and was killed by Russian soldiers, next to his grave in the garden of their residential building in Bucha, Ukraine, on April 3, 2022. Ivanovych was arrested by Russian soldiers. Nedashkivska looked for him for days and found him in a building's basement where two bodies were lying. She recognized him by his sneakers and trousers. "He looked mutilated, his body was cold. They turned him over a little. He had been shot in the head, mutilated, tortured," she said. #
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A civilian weeps as he speaks of being beaten by Russian soldiers while he was making soap on a fire on the streets of Vorzel, near the town of Bucha, after the Ukrainian army secured the area following the withdrawal of the Russian army, on April 3, 2022. #
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Sergey Zhelisko is hugged as his son, Ukrainian soldier Dmitry Zhelisko, is buried on April 3, 2022, in Rusyn, Ukraine. Dmitry died fighting the Russian army near the town of Kharkiv. #
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Anton Maksymovych, 24, poses for a photo with his belongings as he prepares to leave a military base for volunteers in Brovary, on the outskirts of Kyiv, on March 30, 2022. Maksymovych, a war veteran who fought in eastern Ukraine for almost two years, is now volunteering to defend his country again. #
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A young girl cries before the train leaves the eastern city of Kramatorsk on April 3, 2022. AFP journalists saw women, children, and elderly people boarding a train at the station to flee the eastern city of Kramatorsk as Moscow refocused its offensive on southern and eastern Ukraine. "The rumor is that something terrible is coming," said Svetlana, a volunteer organizing the crowd on the station platform. #
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Nurse Svetlana Savchenko, 56, stands next to a building, destroyed during the Russia-Ukraine conflict, where her apartment was located, in the besieged southern port city of Mariupol, on March 30, 2022. #
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A woman cries while waiting along with others for food distribution in the village of Motyzhyn, Ukraine, which was until recently under the control of the Russian military, on April 3, 2022. #
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A child from Brovary looks at a phone in a house in the village of Guissona, Lleida, Spain, on March 22, 2022. The United Nations refugee agency says more than 4 million refugees have now fled Ukraine following Russia’s invasion, a new milestone in the largest refugee crisis in Europe since World War II. #
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Alena and her dog, Reisi, arrive via train at the Lviv station, after leaving the besieged city of Mariupol on March 31, 2022. Her mother said they are trying to make it to Paris, where a relative lives. #
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A Ukrainian soldier walks in a street after a military sweep to search for possible remnants of Russian troops after their withdrawal from villages on the outskirts of Kyiv, on April 1, 2022. #
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