Some 75 days since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, fighting continues in eastern Ukraine, while Russian missiles still sporadically strike major cities. In areas where Russian forces have withdrawn or been pushed out, some residents are attempting to return to their old lives, clearing debris and rebuilding. The United Nations now estimates that nearly 5.9 million refugees have fled Ukraine since the invasion began. Gathered below are images from the past two weeks in Ukraine, where the battlegrounds have shifted but the war continues.
Photos From Russia’s Ongoing Invasion of Ukraine
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![A bright flash of fire blazes above a mortar launcher as a soldier ducks nearby.]()
Read moreA Ukrainian serviceman fires a mortar, as Russia's invasion of Ukraine continues, at an unknown location in Ukraine's Kharkiv region on May 9, 2022. #
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![Two people walk their bicycles across a rubble-strewn street, with a factory and black smoke visible in the distance.]()
Read morePeople walk their bikes across a street as smoke rises above an Azovstal Iron and Steel Works plant during fighting in the southern port city of Mariupol on May 2. #
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![A man stands in front of a temporary fence that is covered with floral arrangements and photographs of people.]()
Read moreA man views the flower memorial wall in memory of the victims of Russia's attacks in Lviv, on May 3. #
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Read moreIn Kryvyi Rih, a nurse checks the wounds of Natalia Ponomareva, three days after her family's home was shelled by Russian forces in their frontline village of Vysokopillia in the Kherson region of southern Ukraine on May 5. She said the family escaped, while still under fire, to a Ukrainian army checkpoint and was then transported to a regional trauma hospital. Her daughter, 5, was seriously injured and just released from the intensive-care unit of another hospital. #
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Read moreDestroyed houses in Irpin, on the outskirts of Kyiv, on April 30 #
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Read moreA child stands on a destroyed Russian tank near Makariv, in the Kyiv region, on May 7. #
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![A close view of a soldier wearing short sleeves, with his arms crossed over his rifle and a rosary hanging down from the strap.]()
Read moreA Ukrainian serviceman holds his rifle with a rosary hanging from it, near Cherkaske City, on May 3. #
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![Several firefighters spray water from a hose at a blaze in a large destroyed building.]()
Read moreFirefighters try to put out a fire following an explosion in Kyiv on April 28. #
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![Several emergency responders carry an injured man across a puddle.]()
Read moreMedical workers rescue an injured man following Russian shelling in Kharkiv on April 27. #
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Read moreThis aerial view shows flooded gardens and fields in Demydiv on May 2. To keep Russian armored columns at bay, Ukrainian forces released water from a nearby hydroelectric dam to intentionally flood Demydiv, a village north of Kyiv. The decision was effective, but efforts to drain the area are complicated. #
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![A mother holds her young son in a dark tunnel. His face is lit by the screen of a phone he holds in his hands.]()
Read moreMaxim Miller is held by his mother, Olena, as he clutches a mobile phone in a tunnel beneath the train station during an air-raid alert in Lviv on May 7. #
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![A woman holds her hands to her face, emotional, while standing in a parking lot.]()
Read moreOlga Babich reacts after arriving from the village of Mali Shcherbaky at a registration and processing area for internally displaced people in Zaporizhzhia on May 6. #
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Read moreProjectiles and destroyed military vehicles near an airfield in the town of Hostomel, in the Kyiv region, on May 5 #
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![People in a classroom look toward an instructor, who points at a projectile that is sitting on a table full of explosive devices.]()
Read moreDisplaced Ukrainians take part in a class by experts on how to deal with explosives in Lviv on May 5. During the session, experts presented examples of explosives, mines, bullets, rockets, and other items to create awareness on how to proceed in case of finding such items. #
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Read moreThe Monument to the Grand Princess Olga in Kyiv is covered with sandbags, photographed on May 5. Following Russia's retreat from areas around the Ukrainian capital, some signs of normal life have returned to Kyiv as residents take advantage of shortened curfew hours, businesses reopen, and foreign countries promise to return their diplomats. #
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Read moreA Ukrainian army tank moves toward a frontline position on May 7 in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. #
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![A man stands in his heavily damaged house.]()
Read moreA man stands in his heavily damaged house on May 2 in Fenevychi. #
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![People stand solemnly during a memorial service.]()
Read moreLiudmyla, the wife of Ukrainian serviceman Ruslan Borovyk, and her daughters, Anna and Sofiia, react as they attend Borovyk's memorial service in Mikhailovsky Zlatoverkhy Cathedral (St. Michael's Golden-Domed Cathedral) in central Kyiv on May 4. #
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![A view of a heavily damaged truck sitting outside a damaged church.]()
Read moreA view of a destroyed church that, according to residents, was used by the Russian army as a munitions warehouse in Lukashivka, in the Chernihiv region, on April 27. #
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![Two soldiers walk near a downed Russian helicopter in a field.]()
Read moreUkrainian soldiers walk near a downed Russian helicopter on the outskirts of Kharkiv on May 8. #
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![Two children play in the cab of a destroyed Russian military truck.]()
Read moreChildren play in a destroyed Russian military truck in the village of Kolychivka, in the Chernihiv region, on April 27. #
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![A soldier inspects a damaged school classroom.]()
Read moreA soldier inspects a damaged classroom in a school in Kochubeivka on May 8. #
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Read moreUkrainian infantrymen train near Kryvyi Rih on May 9. #
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Read morePeople weave camouflage netting for the Ukrainian armed forces in Lviv on May 8. #
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Read moreIuliia holds her dog, Chackie, upon her arrival at a reception center for displaced people in Zaporizhzhia on May 8. Iuliia drove her grandmother's friend from Kherson as thousands of Ukrainians continue to leave Russian-occupied areas. #
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Read moreRelatives react after arriving from the Ukrainian city of Mariupol at a center for displaced people in Zaporizhzhia on May 3. #
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![The tail fins of a missile embedded in the ground in a city park, with benches nearby]()
Read moreA missile fragment in a park in Chuguiv, in the Kharkiv region, on May 5 #
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Read moreA crater at the site where a missile strike hit a residential area in Bakhmut, in the Donetsk region, on May 7 #
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![Black smoke rises from a fire above an industrial area seen in the distance behind a flowering field.]()
Read moreSmoke rises from an oil refinery near Lysychansk after a missile strike on May 9. #
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Read moreLiudmyla Lishtvanova, 99, who was a volunteer working alongside the Red Army as they fought Nazi Germany in Kharkiv in World War II, sits on her bed in a nursing home in Chaiky village on the outskirts of Kyiv on May 8. In the 1940s, she would pick up unexploded ordnance to help clear the streets for men and women who were fighting. "Even off the roofs of buildings," she recalled with a smile, adding, "we were fighting for our land." In early March, the home's 160 residents had to be evacuated to central Kyiv after Russian soldiers climbed over a perimeter fence to launch their drones. Residents were able to return to the home three weeks ago. For World War II veterans here, the current fight evokes memories of the past century's battles. #
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