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A Ukrainian fighter from the Odin unit keeps watch, with a sharp-eyed dog, as the soldiers take cover in a building in Irpin
Photograph: Daniel Berehulak/The New York Times
![A Ukrainian fighter from the Odin unit keeps watch, with a sharp-eyed dog, as the soldiers take cover in a building in Irpin](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/c151b5ed33a57826211c7b86cb5ed520b4044cef/0_0_2500_1667/master/2500.jpg?width=300&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=5aaa484c49ed67a86a25698a4cf62bc2)
A woman looks at the damage done by drone strikes in Bucha, conducted by the Ukrainian army against a column of Russian armoured vehicles
Photograph: Rafael Yaghobzadeh
![A woman looks at the damage done by drone strikes in Bucha, conducted by the Ukrainian army against a column of Russian armoured vehicles](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/e1b181d76722966c83e967da2b0cad8a4f5ef6fd/0_0_2500_1782/master/2500.jpg?width=300&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=d088026fcaa567e1e00f4d045dcddd77)
A woman poses for a photo in front of a destroyed Russian battle tank on the highway to Kyiv. These wrecks quickly became pop-up monuments to the victory of the Kyiv region and the site of photo ops for people passing by
Photograph: Wolfgang Schwan/Anadolu Agency
![A woman poses for a photo in front of a destroyed Russian battle tank on the highway to Kyiv. These wrecks quickly became pop-up monuments to the victory of the Kyiv region and the site of photo ops for people passing by](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/8b21e894e3a25b6d2d844038ed62d461f8ecae9a/0_0_2500_1666/master/2500.jpg?width=300&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=e2bdb80c3c958587be9473a4f0c395ef)
Volunteers receive weapons at a storage facility in Fastiv, after the Ukrainian government announced it would arm civilians to resist the Russian invasion
Photograph: Brendan Hoffman/The New York Times
![Volunteers receive weapons at a storage facility in Fastiv, after the Ukrainian government announced it would arm civilians to resist the Russian invasion](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/631ae19fb1ebeaec1d488b54350a370e3a1d0d72/0_0_1350_900/master/1350.jpg?width=300&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=8a034040a96c637afd9e55980741bafc)
Vovo, 13, at the Ohmatdyt general hospital in Kyiv. He lost his father when their car came under attack and still has a bullet lodged in his back that needs surgery
Photograph: Paula Bronstein/The Times
![Vovo, 13, at the Ohmatdyt general hospital in Kyiv. He lost his father when their car came under attack and still has a bullet lodged in his back that needs surgery](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/feee04f9d8e5aa58257e5187a5e521c4e720c809/0_0_2500_1667/master/2500.jpg?width=300&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=926117467e0e3b19474680ea5c2261ad)
Alina and Victor (left) and Victoria and Yuri give their partners a last goodbye as they prepare to leave Lviv by train to fight against the Russians on the frontlines in Sumy
Photograph: John Stanmeyer/VII
![Alina and Victor (left) and Victoria and Yuri give their partners a last goodbye as they prepare to leave Lviv by train to fight against the Russians on the frontlines in Sumy](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/4c0677e79f823f7846d335c6e611d9b469ce185e/0_0_2500_1667/master/2500.jpg?width=300&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=a4aa77c323311e1b5e10c1e7a3b96e49)
Civilians training to throw Molotov cocktails to defend the city of Zhytomyr, in response to Russia’s invasion
Photograph: Viacheslav Ratynskyi
![Civilians training to throw Molotov cocktails to defend the city of Zhytomyr, in response to Russia’s invasion](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/aee409a310c8a57c6052708de5bc6f5cdd0e2f87/0_0_2500_1663/master/2500.jpg?width=300&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=2a8fd955da0ce72738af196c8c115669)
Nastya Tihaia with a group of disabled and wounded rescued dogs in Irpin
Photograph: Christopher Occhicone
![Nastya Tihaia with a group of disabled and wounded rescued dogs in Irpin](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/9d0f323ff372c8aa56f17383e8e0cff946e7709a/0_0_2500_1664/master/2500.jpg?width=300&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=4422aa801e257b3ac9434fc1e729b11a)
A man stares at the beauty of a rainbow in the sky after April showers brought sunshine over a destroyed apartment building in Kyiv, hit by aerial bombardment
Photograph: Paula Bronstein/Getty Images
![A man stares at the beauty of a rainbow in the sky after April showers brought sunshine over a destroyed apartment building in Kyiv, hit by aerial bombardment](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/0aea38dcbf81d267b468e2a07c311af9075a164e/0_0_2500_1667/master/2500.jpg?width=300&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=81b9be4f9f8a0b9307ccae053ea37a28)
School graduates dance in front of the Odesa Opera and Ballet Theatre, creating a video with the purpose of showing the world what is lost during war
Photograph: Laetitia Vançon
![School graduates dance in front of the Odesa Opera and Ballet Theatre, creating a video with the purpose of showing the world what is lost during war](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/e89a06d2bfdd0cc7ea5a8436a41045b24aaf676c/0_0_2500_1663/master/2500.jpg?width=300&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=a13f201e33ea665a7b816996d3d38071)
Husband and wife Leonid, 71, and Valentyna, 70, at a temporary housing facility for internally displaced people in Kharkiv. They fled Kupiansk after the town became the frontline between Ukrainian and Russian forces
Photograph: Nicole Tung
![Husband and wife Leonid, 71, and Valentyna, 70, at a temporary housing facility for internally displaced people in Kharkiv. They fled Kupiansk after the town became the frontline between Ukrainian and Russian forces](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/fadc0b5d5b02223d796e19bdec313732e01a6448/0_0_2500_1668/master/2500.jpg?width=300&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=a0e38db8d741546b5e8b972b539b28fd)
Wooden crosses at a mass burial site in the forest near the town of Izium. A total of 436 bodies were exhumed after liberation from Russian occupation. Most of them have signs of violent death
Photograph: Viacheslav Ratynskyi
![Wooden crosses at a mass burial site in the forest near the town of Izium. A total of 436 bodies were exhumed after liberation from Russian occupation. Most of them have signs of violent death](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/f4d9e75e010787286cb5c92c647b9deb3969225b/0_0_2500_1663/master/2500.jpg?width=300&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=f31fa5e160cc75cdf24016963a573f30)
Soldiers from special commando unit 112 with a Russian spy. The man, allegedly in possession of a fake Israeli passport, was living in Irpin months before the Russian invasion. Under interrogation he confessed his name is Alexei, from St Petersburg, married with a child and working for the Wagner Group
Photograph: Ziv Koren/Polaris
![Soldiers from special commando unit 112 with a Russian spy. The man, allegedly in possession of a fake Israeli passport, was living in Irpin months before the Russian invasion. Under interrogation he confessed his name is Alexei, from St Petersburg, married with a child and working for the Wagner Group](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/4c1dd810e0d0a9f712dc6e8f28964c6b08d3338b/0_0_2500_1668/master/2500.jpg?width=300&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=473bdb8976d6ce6e798a65b35adf32bc)
A soldier with serious head and eye injuries after an operation at a hospital for the military, the second point in the chain of evacuation from combat. Most soldiers treated here have artillery wounds or mine injuries. Military doctors and nurses live and work at the hospital
Photograph: Paula Bronstein/Getty Images
![A soldier with serious head and eye injuries after an operation at a hospital for the military, the second point in the chain of evacuation from combat. Most soldiers treated here have artillery wounds or mine injuries. Military doctors and nurses live and work at the hospital](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/34e4bf40d8b871bb86490c38bb4ff0166e4ece1c/0_0_1350_900/master/1350.jpg?width=300&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=e6e9f18e36accae7fc0fc8d4cb0ff8d7)
Two men walk through the rubble of their house, destroyed by a Russian missile, in the Saltivka residential district of Kharkiv. The area has been heavily damaged as a zone of contact between the Ukrainian and Russian armies
Photograph: Giulio Piscitelli
![Two men walk through the rubble of their house, destroyed by a Russian missile, in the Saltivka residential district of Kharkiv. The area has been heavily damaged as a zone of contact between the Ukrainian and Russian armies](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/65db4c261ee13b2a9152a0f5b6c7f7f6aca0c633/0_0_2500_1667/master/2500.jpg?width=300&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=a4c4d8c43f0ce743c6bd0d43dba12c92)
A vandalised icon of Christ at a fighting position manned by the Azov battalion on the frontline of Shirokino
Photograph: J Daniel Hud
![A vandalised icon of Christ at a fighting position manned by the Azov battalion on the frontline of Shirokino](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/41476ee1c75183cddc49b889baddc5c4dd5de72f/0_0_1350_900/master/1350.jpg?width=300&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=dda7f9aec2a0ae9db6801c61fb535643)