On Ukraine's Eastern Front
- By RFE/RL
New images show fighting and destruction of civilian areas in and around the Donbas region as an expected major Russian offensive into the east of Ukraine looms.
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An armored vehicle of Russia's forces moves down a war-ravaged street in Mariupol on April 12. The massive Soviet-era Azovstal iron and steel works rises in the background.
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A dummy dressed as a Russian fighter hangs outside the village of Barvinkove on April 12. An obscene insult is written on the signboard.
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Emergency workers remove the body of a woman following an artillery attack that damaged an apartment block in Kharkiv on April 13.
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Moscow-backed separatist fighters fire a volley of Grad rockets at Ukrainian forces in the Donetsk region on April 11.
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Troops from Russia's Chechnya region evacuate a wounded man from the battlefield in Novoazovsk on April 12.
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A Ukrainian soldier next to the remains of a missile near Barvinkove on April 11.
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Two women react in the yard of an apartment complex in Kharkiv that was hit by artillery on April 13.
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A PFM-1 "butterfly mine" is seen in Popasnaya on April 11. The cellphone-sized mines are designed to be dropped from aircraft and spin slowly to the ground. Around 5 kilograms of pressure is sufficient to detonate the camouflaged anti-personnel mines.
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Residents of Mariupol carry their belongings past a destroyed building in the southeastern port city on April 10.
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A view down a street in the center of Mariupol on April 12
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A woman camps out in the Kharkiv subway to shelter from shelling on April 11.
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A Russian soldier climbs stairs at the destroyed Mariupol Drama Theater on April 12. The photo was taken during a press tour organized by the Russian military.
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Separatist troops pass the Azovstal plant on April 12.
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Ukrainian soldiers take positions in trenches in the Luhansk region on April 11.
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A separatist fighter handles a shell inside a 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled howitzer in Pervomaysk.
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A Ukrainian emergency worker stands over the body of a 41-year-old resident who was killed during shelling that tore through his apartment in Kharkiv on April 13.
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A Ukrainian emergency worker stands over the body of a 41-year-old resident who was killed during shelling that tore through his apartment in Kharkiv on April 13.
A Ukrainian emergency worker stands over the body of a 41-year-old resident who was killed during shelling that tore through his apartment in Kharkiv on April 13.
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Balo Oleksandr, the mayor of the Ukrainian-held town of Barvinkove, is pictured carrying a weapon on April 12.
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A firefighter works at the scene of a missile attack that impacted buildings near the Kharkiv airport on April 12.
