Russia Invades Ukraine
The Fight For Eastern Ukraine
- By RFE/RL
Violence has escalated in recent days in and around the Donbas Region as Russia's invasion of Ukraine enters what the Kremlin calls a new "phase."
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Medical workers help a man who was badly injured during shelling of Kharkiv on April 27.
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Decoy flares are released by a Sukhoi SU-25 that was providing air support to Ukrainian troops during fighting near Yampil, in the Donetsk region on April 27.
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The aftermath of a military strike near a railway station in Lyman in the Donetsk region on April 28.
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Kremlin-backed separatist fighters ride an armored vehicle in the Donetsk region on April 27.
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Ukrainian servicemen install a machine gun onto the turret of a tank in the Donetsk region on April 27.
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Plumes of smoke rise above the landscape of the Luhansk region after shelling on April 26.
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Numbered, unnamed graves are seen in the Starokrymskoye Cemetery in Mariupol on April 26.
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Medical workers carry an injured man following shelling in Kharkiv on April 27.
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Western anti-tank weapons are displayed in an arms depot that the Russian Defense Ministry says was captured by Russian troops. The photo was released on April 27.
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A Ukrainian tanker does repair work in the Donetsk region on April 27.
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A Ukrainian serviceman walks in a trench alongside a checkpoint in the Zaporizhzhya region on April 27.
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Smoke rises in the aftermath of a military strike near a railway station in Lyman in the Donetsk region on April 28.
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A man cooks over an open fire outside the bunker of a factory in Severodonetsk on April 27.
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A Ukrainian fighter cleans his rifle while on duty near the front line in Svyatohirsk on April 27.
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The body of a dead Ukrainian fighter lies amid rubble at an unnamed location in a picture released on April 27.
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A woman smokes in the safety of a bunker that is serving as a bomb shelter in Severodonetsk on April 27.
