In Photos: 100 Days Of War In Ukraine

A destroyed radar system in the southern port city of Mariupol on February 24, the day Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. 

Olena is a 53-year old teacher from the eastern town of Chuhuiv who was wounded by an explosion as Russia launched its invasion on February 24. She later told a British media outlet that she had been following the news but, like many people, "never believed a war would really start." 
 

Destroyed and abandoned Russian vehicles on the outskirts of Kyiv on February 27. 

A destroyed apartment block in Borodyanka, northeast of Kyiv, on March 3. 

Maryna Yatsko (left) and her boyfriend, Fedir, run into a Mariupol hospital carrying Yatsko's injured 18 month-old son, Kyrylo, on March 4. 

A woman holds her cat in a metro station in Kyiv on March 8. Scenes reminiscent of World War II shocked the world in early March as Ukrainian civilians moved underground for safety while Russia launched missiles and rockets into several major cities. 

A wounded, heavily pregnant woman is carried on a stretcher from a Mariupol maternity hospital that was hit by an apparent missile explosion on March 9. Both the woman and the baby later died.

Bodies are placed in a mass grave on the outskirts of Mariupol on March 9. The port city suffered widespread destruction during a nearly three-month siege in which thousands of civilians were killed.

An apartment building in Mariupol is hit with a Russian tank shell on March 11.

Russian TV editor Marina Ovsyannikova interrupts a live broadcast of the Russian First Channel on March 14 with a poster stating, “Stop the war. Don't believe the propaganda. They lie to you here." Ovsyannikova was fined 30,000 rubles ($250) and she moved to Germany, where she later received the Havel Dissent Prize for her protest.

Ukrainian firefighters work at a bombed apartment building in Kyiv on March 15.

A woman and her pet cockatiel pass through a Russian military checkpoint as they attempt to flee Mariupol on April 17.

Misha, 5, gets help from his grandfather to get dressed at a hospital in the southern city of Mykolayiv on March 26. Misha was injured during a Russian air strike.
 

The aftermath of a missile strike on the western city of Lviv on March 26. Russia employed scores of Kalibr cruise missiles in the early days of the war that could hit targets hundreds of kilometers from the front lines. RFE/RL journalist Vira Hyrych was killed by such a missile while inside her Kyiv apartment on April 28. 

Destroyed Russian armored vehicles near Kyiv on March 31.

The bodies of the mayor of Motyzhyn and her family lie in a mass grave on April 4 after being uncovered following the withdrawal of Russian forces from an encirclement of Kyiv. Members of the family had their hands bound before being executed.

Women cook food over an open fire in Mariupol on April 3. Gas, electricity, and water were cut off as Russian forces pushed into the city. 

A local man in one of the devastated streets of Mariupol on April 7. 

Ira Gavriluk holds her cat on April 4 as she stands over the bodies of her husband, brother, and another man who were killed outside her home in Bucha, on the outskirts of Kyiv.

Pro-Russian militants in a suburb of Mariupol on April 9. 

A Russian soldier takes a photo down the main street of Mariupol from the city's destroyed performing arts theater on April 12.
 

The bodies of people dressed in civilian clothing lie on a road in Mariupol on April 16. 

Residents of Bucha wait for a food handout organized by the Red Cross on April 18.

A girl crouches by a grave in Mariupol on April 19. As shells and rockets rained down on the city and the death toll mounted, patches of earth including parks and roadsides became makeshift cemeteries. 

A May 1 photo shot with a drone shows the suburb of Rubizhne, in Ukraine's eastern Luhansk region, which was heavily damaged by fighting. 

A mortar explodes close to a road leading to the city of Lysychansk in the Luhansk region on May 2.

Hanna Shevchenko waters the flowers that survived the bombing of her home in a photo taken on May 3. The house was built by Shevchenko's grandparents. In her flowerbed roses, lilies, peonies, and daffodils survived. 

A pro-Russian fighter walks through a destroyed residential street in the eastern town of Popasna on May 8. 

Ukrainian servicemen who were defending Mariupol's Azovstal steel plant sit in a bus after surrendering to pro-Russian forces on May 17. 

Bears who survived the shelling of the Mariupol Zoo are seen during a media tour organized by the Russian military on May 18.

A Russian serviceman inside what the TASS news agency describes as the "abandoned base" of Ukraine's Azov Battalion in Mariupol on May 18. 

A wall of portraits of fallen Ukrainian soldiers in Kyiv on May 23.

A woman kneels next to the body of her husband, Oleksiy, who was killed during shelling of the eastern city of Kharkiv on May 26. 

A pro-Russian fighter stands in front of a Communist-era banner that was used to mark Soviet victories over Nazi Germany in World War II. The photo was taken in the eastern Ukrainian town of Svitlodarsk on May 28. 

Smoke rises above Syevyerodonetsk during heavy fighting on May 30 as Russian troops inched closer to seizing the key eastern city.

A wounded Ukrainian serviceman is evacuated from the front lines in Syevyerodonetsk on June 2. 

As of June 3 bitter fighting in eastern Ukraine is ongoing as Russian forces continue their assult. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy says "60 to 100" Ukrainian soldiers are dying in battle every day.