Last weekend marked two months since the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. For the moment, Russian military efforts seem to be focused on seizing control of the country’s eastern and southern areas. After Russia’s withdrawal from areas around Kyiv, some Ukrainians have been slowly returning to claim their dead, assess the damage, and salvage what they can. Gathered here, recent images of the war and resistance in Chernihiv, Lviv, Kharkiv, Odessa, Kyiv, and more.
Photos: Two Months of War in Ukraine
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A woman reacts during a funeral for her relative, who died during a shelling attack by Russian troops amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, at the cemetery in Irpin, Kyiv region, Ukraine, on April 17, 2022. #
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A female Ukrainian soldier wears a heart-shaped and Ukrainian-flag-colored accessory given to her by a child at a checkpoint in Bakhmut, eastern Ukraine, on April 23, 2022. #
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A man drives a forklift as he delivers body bags containing exhumed bodies to a refrigerated truck at a mortuary in Bucha, northwest of Kyiv, on April 22, 2022, ahead of further identification procedures. A United Nations mission to Bucha documented "the unlawful killing, including by summary execution, of some 50 civilians there," the UN's Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights said. #
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Two men move a head that was removed from the Friendship of Peoples monument during its demolition on April 26, 2022, in Kyiv. Kyiv's Mayor Vitali Klitschko announced in a social-media post that the eight-meter-high statue of men holding a star-shaped emblem that says "Friendship of Peoples" and "U.S.S.R." would be removed from the city, and the metal arch overhead would be renamed. #
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People wait in a line to board an evacuation bus in the port city of Mykolaiv, Ukraine, on April 23, 2022. Ukrainian forces here repelled an initial advance from Russian-held territory nearby, but the city has experienced frequent shelling and air strikes even as Russia shifts the focus of its war to the eastern Donbas region. #
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Ioulia looks on as her family boards an evacuation train to Lviv, the day after arriving with a humanitarian convoy from the besieged city of Mariupol, at a railway station in the southern city of Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, on April 22, 2022. After almost two months under Russian bombs in Mariupol, the family decided to make a perilous journey: to escape on foot with their four children in order to find a sense of normalcy elsewhere in Ukraine. #
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Lyudmila is seen in her temporary home in a converted shipping container in Lviv, Ukraine, on April 26, 2022. Having escaped to Lviv from Kostyantynivka due to Russian rocket attacks, she was able to secure a shared room in one of the new "container towns" provided by the Polish government, and made available to refugees from eastern Ukraine. Living with her disabled son, Lyudmila is prepared to stay as long as the war lasts before she can return to see if her home is still standing. The rooms include beds for four people, storage space for clothing, and a small table, with an electric heater. Meals are provided by the World Central Kitchen charity. #
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Residents walk after an Orthodox Easter service outside of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin Church, which was damaged by shelling during Russia’s invasion in the village of Peremoha, in the Kyiv region of Ukraine, on April 24, 2022. #
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A TV with a bullet hole is seen next to family photographs in the living room of Halyna Ponomareva's apartment on April 21, 2022, in Hostomel, Ukraine. Ponomareva was captured by Chechen fighters in Hostomel and was held in a basement as a prisoner. She died there after being held captive for 17 days. #
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As seen from the air, the massive Komodor logistics park lies in ruins, after being bombed and burned back in March, during the Russian invasion near Makariv, Ukraine, on April 19, 2022. #
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Local resident Oksana shows off shrapnel found in the remnants of her multigenerational home, as she collected salvageable items in Hostomel, Ukraine, on April 25, 2022. Located on the former front line, she said the house was hit by Russian rockets on March 7 when her mother and grandmother were downstairs. They were evacuated uninjured to Kyiv before the entire family relocated west to Vinnytsia. #
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Tetyana Boikiv, right, meets and hugs her neighbor Svitlana Pryimachenko during a funeral service for her husband, Mykola Moroz, in Ozera village, near Bucha, Ukraine, on April 26, 2022. Mykola was captured by the Russian army at his house in Ozera on March 13, taken for several weeks to an unknown location, and was later found—killed by gunshots—about 15 kilometers from his house. #
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