On day 154 of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, fighting continues, most of it concentrated in the east and south. Russian forces are currently launching missile strikes near the southern cities of Odesa and Mykolaiv as part of a battle for control of crucial ports along the Black Sea. Russian air and missile attacks continued across the Kharkiv and Donetsk regions, killing and wounding many civilians. Gathered below are images from the past month of warfare in Ukraine, which show scenes from Kharkiv, Vinnytsia, Kyiv, Donetsk, Mariupol, and more.
Photos: Five Months of War in Ukraine
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![Three soldiers operate a piece of field artillery, firing a shell and causing smoke and fire to erupt from the muzzle.]()
Read moreUkrainian service members fire a shell from a M777 Howitzer at a front line in Kharkiv Region, Ukraine, on July 21, 2022, as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues. #
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![A woman stands in a deep crater in a schoolyard.]()
Read moreA woman stands in a crater caused by missile strikes that struck a schoolyard in a residential area of Kharkiv on June 27, 2022. #
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![Plants grow through the rusty tracks of a burned military vehicle.]()
Read morePlants grow through the tracks of a burned and abandoned Russian military vehicle in Dmytrivka, Ukraine, on June 30, 2022. The region around Ukraine's capital continues to recover from Russia's aborted assault on Kyiv, which turned many communities into battlefields. #
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![A medical worker tends to a patient in a hospital bed.]()
Read moreA medical worker takes care of people injured during Russian shelling in the intensive-care ward of a hospital in Vinnytsia, Ukraine, on July 15, 2022. #
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![A view of the facade of a building showing extensive damage from a recent missile strike.]()
Read moreA view shows the facade of a building damaged by a Russian missile strike in Vinnytsia, Ukraine, on July 15, 2022. #
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![First responders stand and walk near a missile-damaged building, with a toppled baby stroller seen in the foreground.]()
Read moreAn abandoned baby stroller lies by a road after a deadly Russian missile attack in Vinnytsia, Ukraine, on Thursday, July 14, 2022. Russian missiles struck the city of Vinnytsia, killing at least 23 people and injuring more than 100 others, Ukrainian officials said. #
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![The shadow of a helicopter is seen on a field of sunflowers.]()
Read moreThe shadow of a helicopter belonging to the Ukrainian State Emergency Service (SES) is seen on a field of sunflowers as it flies to Vinnytsia on July 14, 2022. #
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![A worker trims bushes as a house burns behind them.]()
Read moreA municipal worker trims bushes as a house—struck by a shell—burns in the background on the outskirts of Bakhmut, eastern Ukraine, on July 27, 2022. #
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![Two people kneel beside a flower-covered grave.]()
Read moreFamily members of Oleksander Mykytenko mourn his death at the Krasnopilske cemetery during a mass funeral for 13 members of the Ukrainian military on July 1, 2022, in Dnipro, Ukraine. The weekly funeral is held to honor soldiers killed in the line of duty, with many unidentified due to complications of the war and families stuck in the occupied Russian territories. The cemetery's military section has added more than 300 graves since the war began. #
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![Two men stand in a kitchen looking at holes punched through the floor and ceiling.]()
Read moreResidents look at the damage to a building that was partially destroyed overnight during a missile strike on the outskirts of Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, on July 25, 2022. #
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![A view of many buildings at night, with only a single light visible.]()
Read moreEvening falls, revealing an almost completely dark cityscape in Kharkiv as Russia's attack continues in Ukraine on June 25, 2022. Residents try to keep the lights off to make it harder for the Russians to target buildings. #
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![Several soldiers take cover in a brick structure lit by a red light.]()
Read moreUkrainian servicemen of the Khartia battalion take cover in a shelter on the front line near Kharkiv on July 12, 2022. #
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![Three dummies made with military uniforms hang from rope above a road.]()
Read moreDummies depicting Russian soldiers are seen hanging near the front line in the Kharkiv region on July 23, 2022. #
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![A boy peeks into a classroom in a hallway strewn with broken windows and debris.]()
Read moreA boy peeks into a classroom of a special boarding school for visually impaired children that was damaged after a missile strike in Kharkiv on July 7, 2022. The school had already been shelled on March 16 and July 1. #
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![A police officer kneels to hold the hand of a distraught man sitting on a debris-covered sidewalk holding the hand of his son, who lies dead beside him under a blanket.]()
Read moreA police officer (right) comforts a man as he holds the hand of his 13-year-old son, who was killed in a Russian shelling in northern Kharkiv on July 20, 2022. #
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![A worker in an orange uniform sits on a piece of rubble, holding a hand to their head.]()
Read moreA worker rests as firefighters remove debris to search for bodies in the Central House of Culture after a military strike hit a building in Chuhuiv, in the Kharkiv region, on July 25, 2022. #
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![A farmer drives a combine through a wheat field beside a large crater.]()
Read moreThis aerial photograph taken on July 7, 2022, near Kramatorsk, shows a farmer harvesting wheat as he drives a combine near a crater suspected to be caused by an air strike. #
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![A soldier operates a mobile artillery vehicle in a wooded area.]()
Read moreUkrainian servicemen tend to a mobile artillery vehicle among trees in Kharkiv on July 26, 2022. #
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![A soldier hugs his partner near the tracks at a train station.]()
Read moreA Ukrainian soldier hugs his partner prior to boarding a train to Dnipro at the train station in Odesa on July 24, 2022. #
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![A Ukrainian military journalist holds a camera up while filming in a wheat field.]()
Read moreA Ukrainian military journalist takes cover in a wheat field as he captures video while a tank team with the 14th Mechanized Brigade of Prince Roman the Great fires on an enemy position on July 1, 2022, in the Donetsk District. #
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![An injured man, his chest covered in blood from an apparent head wound, sits cross-legged in a chair in a damaged apartment.]()
Read moreA resident named Volodymyr, injured from a military strike, sits in a chair in his damaged apartment in Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine, on July 7, 2022. #
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![A cyclist rides past the tail section of a rocket embedded in a road.]()
Read moreA cyclist rides past the tail section of a rocket embedded in a road in Kramatorsk on July 4, 2022, the day after a Russian rocket attack. #
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![Two people look at a distant fire and column of smoke near a residential area.]()
Read moreResidents look on as smoke rises after shelling in Donetsk on July 7, 2022. #
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![Students in military uniforms sit on a bench inside an underground shelter.]()
Read moreStudents sit inside the bomb shelter of a cadet lyceum as they conduct air-raid-alarm training amid Russia's ongoing attacks in Kyiv, Ukraine, on July 27, 2022. #
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![A man stands on a bridge near a heavily damaged industrial area.]()
Read moreA fisherman stands on a bridge near the damaged Azovstal steel mill in the southern port city of Mariupol on July 15, 2022. #
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![Smoke rises above farm fields, seen from a distance.]()
Read moreSmoke rises from the front lines of a fierce battle between Ukrainian and Russian troops in the Dnipropetrovsk region, Ukraine, on July 4, 2022. #
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![Firefighters remove debris to search for bodies in a heavily damaged building.]()
Read moreFirefighters remove debris to search for bodies in the Central House of Culture after a military strike hit the building in Chuhuiv on July 25, 2022. #
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![Two people embrace, leaning against a wall, as they watch rescuers (not seen) at work.]()
Read moreLocal residents watch rescuers work as they wait for news about their relatives, who were trapped in the rubble of a residential building damaged by a Russian military strike in the town of Chasiv Yar in the Donetsk region on July 10, 2022. #
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![A police officer kneels down to help a seated woman in her apartment, which is strewn with broken glass.]()
Read moreA police officer helps a woman leave her apartment in a residential building damaged by a Russian military strike in Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, on July 19, 2022. #
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![The wreckage of several military vehicles sit near pavement, where a single sunflower grows through a crack.]()
Read moreDestroyed Russian military vehicles sit and rust on a farm that was once used by Russian troops as a military base in Ukraine's Kharkiv region, seen on July 17, 2022. #
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