In the weeks and months following Russia's invasion, almost 9 million Ukrainians, mostly women, children, and the elderly, fled to Poland.
When Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, it triggered the biggest military conflict in Europe since World War II, upending the lives of millions and bringing widespread devastation that continues today.
The photo of a dead woman's hand, her freshly-varnished nails standing out against the mud on her skin, became an iconic image of Russian atrocities in the Ukrainian town of Bucha. Months after the picture was taken, her family and friends are struggling to cope with her loss.
When Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, it not only triggered the biggest military conflict in Europe since World War II but also brought devastation to towns and cities across the country.
Located in a secret military repair yard behind the front line in Kharkiv in Ukraine's east, this small workshop has been repairing captured Russian equipment for redeployment against Moscow's forces.
In Druzhkivka, about 70 kilometers north of Donetsk, Ukrainian volunteers are trying to ensure that stray animals survive a harsh winter amid Russian shelling.
Inside the mammoth salt-mining operation that supplies much of Armenia's seasoning.
U.S. President Joe Biden made a surprise visit to Kyiv on February 20, just days ahead of the first anniversary of Russia's invasion of the country.
Here are some of the most compelling photographs from the seventh week of 2023 from around RFE/RL's region.
A Ukrainian mortar team in Bakhmut is carrying on in hopes of holding the besieged city in the Donetsk region, which has been the scene of some of the bloodiest fighting of the war.
The Kovalyov brothers and their wives have chosen to spend their final days living without electricity or heating among the ruins of what had been no-man's-land in the war-ravaged village of Posad-Pokrovske in Ukraine's southern Kherson region.
Russian forces have intensified their shelling of the devastated Ukrainian city of Kupyansk, raising concerns that it may be recaptured. The war-torn city lies just 15 kilometers from the front line, where Moscow's forces are engaged in fighting.
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