Photojournalist Serhiy Nuzhnenko of RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service has spent a year covering the war in his country. To mark a year since Russia's full-scale invasion, he compiled this collection of his most powerful photos.
Serhiy Nuzhnenko: Photos From A Year Of War In Ukraine
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A woman hugs her child in a subway station in Kyiv during a possible Russian air strike on the first day of the Russian assault -- February 24, 2022.
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Civilians look at a destroyed Russian armored column in Bucha on March 1, 2022. Two days later, the town was occupied by Russian troops.
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The body of a Russian soldier was found in a destroyed armored personnel carrier in Bucha on March 1, 2022.
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A fire in a storage facility outside Kyiv caused by Russian shelling on March 3, 2022.
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Civilians being evacuated near Bucha and Irpin on March 11, 2022.
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A police officer helps civilians evacuate from Irpin under a destroyed bridge on March 12, 2022.
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A rainbow in front of a house in Kyiv damaged by shelling on March 15, 2022. The rainbow was caused by mist in the air after firefighters extinguished a blaze.
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A portrait of Valentyn Serhiyovich, 82, the last resident of the village of Teterivske in the Kyiv region, taken on March 21, 2022. The village was heavily damaged by shelling. He didn’t want to leave the house where he’d lived for 50 years.
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Dogs walk near a burned-out car and the body of a Ukrainian civilian in Nova Basan on April 1, 2022.
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Ukrainian troops enter a retaken town in the Chernihiv region on April 2, 2022.
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A woman hugs a Ukrainian soldier in the town of Bakhmach in the Chernihiv region that had just been retaken by Ukrainian troops, on April 2, 2022.
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A Ukrainian soldier stands near a Grad multiple-launch rocket system on April 20, 2022.
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Oleksandr, a military chaplain, blesses a Ukrainian soldier in the Kharkiv region on April 24, 2022.
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A Ukrainian soldier rests after a heavy battle near Izyum, in the Kharkiv region, on May 2, 2022.
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A fire is seen at a storage facility for sunflower oil after a Russian air strike in Yakovlivka, in the Donetsk region, in May 2022. The village was later razed to the ground and occupied by Russian forces.
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Bohdan, an injured Ukrainian soldier, is evacuated near Syevyerodonetsk, in the Luhansk region, on June 2, 2022.
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Yury, a Ukrainian tank mechanic, peers out of a hatch in the Donetsk region on June 11, 2022.
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A student walks through the debris of his school, which was destroyed by a Russian air strike, in Bakhmut, in the Donetsk region, on June 8, 2022.
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People at a cemetery pay their respects to Ukrainian soldier Roman Ratushnyi in Kyiv on June 18, 2022. Ratushnyi was a widely known activist and was killed in a battle near Izyum a few weeks before his 25th birthday.
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A Ukrainian tank fires at Russian positions near Soledar, in the Donetsk region, on August 12, 2022.
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Denys, a Ukrainian soldier, takes a break during Russian shelling near Yakovlyvka in the Donetsk region on August 29, 2022. In peacetime, he worked as an archaeologist.
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Saltivka, a damaged residential area in Kharkiv, is seen on September 13, 2022.
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The exhumation of the body of a Ukrainian soldier with his hands tied behind his back in a mass grave near Izyum, in the Kharkiv region, on September 16, 2022.
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A Ukrainian soldier rests after trying to shoot down an Iranian-made Shahed-136 drone used to attack Kyiv on October 17, 2022.
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The same day, a firefighter climbs a ladder as he extinguishes a blaze in a residential area in Kyiv that was hit by a Shahed-136 drone.
