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Images from the Ukraine-Russia crisis
93 ImagesThe world is watching after Russian President Vladimir Putin's forces crossed the border into Ukraine.
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Sisters wait at a checkpoint in Beregsurany, Hungary after arriving from Ukraine. Hungary has extended legal protection to those fleeing the Russian invasion.Credit:Anna Szilagyi/AP
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A girl plays in a tent set up by the local Slovak Red Cross in Ubla on Saturday after arriving with her family from Ukraine.Credit:Zuzana Gogova/Getty Images
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A Ukrainian soldier takes a break outside Kharkiv on Saturday.Credit:Andrew Marienko/AP
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A burned car in the Solomianska area of Kyiv. Explosions and gunfire were reported around Kyiv throughout Saturday.Credit:Anastasia Vlasova/Getty Images
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The long walk to the Ukraine-Modolva border.Credit:AP
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Volunteers receive weapons and training at a Territorial Defence depot in Kyiv.Credit:Bloomberg
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Ukrainian service members collect unexploded shells after fighting with a Russian raiding group in the capital Kyiv on Saturday morning (Ukraine time).Credit:AFP
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People take cover as an air-raid siren sounds near an apartment building damaged by recent shelling in Kyiv on Saturday (Ukraine time).Credit:Gleb Garanich / Reuters
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An apartment building damaged by shelling overnight in Kyiv.Credit:Gleb Garanich / Reuters
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Civilians stand in defense of Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, Feb. 26, 2022.Credit:Emilio Morenatti / AP
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Ukrainian soldiers patrol an area not far from burning military trucks in a street in Kyiv. Russian troops pushed toward Ukraine's capital on Saturday, and street fighting broke out as city officials urged residents to take shelter.Credit:Efrem Lukatsky / AP
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Helga Tarasova comforts her daugther, Kira Shapovalova, as they wait in an undergound shelter during a bombing alert in Kyiv.Credit:Daniel Leal / AFP
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Servicemen of the Ukrainian National Guard take positions in central Kyiv after Russia launched a massive military operation against Ukraine.Credit:Gleb Garanich / Reuters
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Ukrainian fighters collect unexploded shells early on Saturday after a Russian raid on Kyiv.Credit:Sergei Supinsky / AFP
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Emergency services evacuate the wounded after a shell hit a multistorey residential building in Kyiv.Credit:Facebook
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Refugees fleeing the conflict from neighboring Ukraine wait for their departure to Prague at the Przemysl train station in Przemysl, Poland, Saturday, Feb. 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)Credit:Petr David Josek / AP
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Ukrainian soldiers investigate debris of a burning military truck on a street in Kyiv on Saturday. Street fighting broke out as Russians pushed towards the capital. Credit:Efrem Lukatsky / AP
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Mikhailo, 5, holds a puppet as he waits in an undergound shelter in Kyiv.Credit:Daniel Leal / AFP
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The burning wreckage of a military truck on a Kyiv street. Residents were urged to seek shelter as Russians advanced.Credit:Efrem Lukatsky / AP
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People rally in Sydney in support of Ukraine.Credit:Steven Siewert
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People rally in Sydney in support of Ukraine.Credit:Steven Siewert
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People rally in Sydney in support of Ukraine.Credit:Steven Siewert
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Tensions flare as Ukrainian supporters clash with pro-Russian demonstrators outside the Russian embassy in the Sydney suburb of Woollahra.Credit:Rhett Wyman
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The smouldering wreck of a military truck on a Kyiv street after Russian troops advanced on Ukraine's capital on Saturday.Credit:EFREM LUKATSKY
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Emergency services on the scene after a residential tower in Kyiv was shelled.Credit:Facebook
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An illuminated window on a residential building with the rest of the lighting turned off for safety reasons.Credit:Efrem Lukatsky / AP
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A man holds a sleeping baby after arriving by bus to a supermarket parking lot from the Polish-Ukrainian border crossing in Przemysl, Poland. The Ukrainian government issued an order to stop 18-60 year-old men eligible for military conscription from crossing borders.Credit:Getty Images
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Ukrainian citizens Yaryna and Sviatovslav Fursin who got married just hours after Russia launched it's invasion of their country. They spent their first day as a married couple collecting their rifles and getting ready to defend Ukraine.
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Ukrainian citizens Yaryna and Sviatovslav Fursin who got married just hours after Russia launched it's invasion of their country. They spent their first day as a married couple collecting their rifles and getting ready to defend Ukraine.
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Ukrainian Ambassador to the United Nations Sergiy Kyslytsya, far right, joins applause after leading a brief period of silence, during the U.N. Security Council meeting on Russian invasion of at U.N. headquarters.Credit: AP
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Ukrainian President Zelensky in a self-shot video saying his team is staying put.
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Natali Sevriukova reacts next to her house following a rocket attack the city of Kyiv, Ukraine.Credit:Emilio Morenatti
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People rest in the Kyiv subway, using it as a bomb shelter in Kyiv, Ukraine. Credit:Emilio Morenatti
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Svyatoslav, 6, plays with his tablet in a public basement used as a bomb shelter in Kyiv, Ukraine.Credit:Emilio Morenatti
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A woman holds Sofia, 4 year-old, in her arms after crossing the border from Ukraine at the Romanian-Ukrainian border, in Siret. Romania, which shares around 600 kilometres (372 miles) of borders with Ukraine to the north, is seeing an influx of refugees from the country as many flee Russia's attacks. Credit:Andreea Alexandru
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Central Kyiv under curfew on Friday night.Credit:Bloomberg
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A Ukrainian in Poland waits for relatives to cross the border in Medyka.Credit:Omar Marques/Getty Images
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A window in Kyiv is protected with tape and sandbags.Credit:Pierre Crom/Getty Images
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Subway stations underneath Kyiv have been turned into bomb shelters.Credit:AP
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People bunk down for the night in a Kyiv subway that's doubling as a bomb shelter.Credit:Emilio Morenatti/AP
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Vladimir, 70, and his wife Tamara, 80, take shelter in a Kyiv subway.Credit:Emilio Morenatti/AP
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A damaged car is seen through a hole in a damaged apartment building after a rocket attack in Mariupol, Ukraine on Friday.Credit:Evgeniy Maloletka/AP
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Ukrainians wait at a train station in Zahony, Hungary after crossing the border. Tens of thousands of Ukrainians are fleeing the war.Credit:Anna Szilagyi/AP
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An elderly woman arrives in Zahony, Hungary on a train with 274 other people on Friday. Ukrainians in their thousands are heading west in search of safety, Credit:Anna Szilagyi/AP
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A customer stocks up on supplies in Kyiv on Friday.Credit:Bloomberg
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Blood colours the snow next to a destroyed Russian rocket launcher vehicle on the outskirts of Kharkiv, Ukraine on Friday.Credit:AP
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Servicemen set up beds at a humanitarian tent camp for refugees arriving in Palalanca, Moldova.Credit:AP
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A Ukrainian police department image of a damaged building in the aftermath of a rocket attack in Kyiv.Credit:AP
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A person in New Delhi, India with a video sent by his relative in Kharkiv in north-east Ukraine. It shows locals taking shelter in a subway station. There are many Indians stranded in Ukraine.Credit:AP
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People arrive in Przemysl, Poland after fleeing the conflict in neighbouring Ukraine.Credit:AP
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A Ukrainian Army soldier inspects fragments of a downed aircraft in Kyiv, Ukraine on Friday, February 25.Credit:AP
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Fragments of a downed aircraft are seen a residential area of Kyiv.Credit:Oleksandr Ratushniak / AP
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A man inspects the damage at a building following a rocket attack in Kyiv on Friday.Credit:AP
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People walk with their belongings at the Astely-Beregsurany border crossing as they flee Ukraine on February 25, 2022 in Beregsurany, Hungary. Credit:Janos Kummer / Getty
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The aftermath of the shelling in Starobilsk, Luhansk region of the Ukraine.Credit:@SESU_UA Ukraine / Twitter
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People look at the damage following a rocket attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, Feb. 25, 2022.Credit:Emilio Morenatti / AP
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Damage from shelling in Starobilsk, in the Luhansk region or Ukraine overnight.Credit:@SESU_UA / Twitter
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People take shelter at a building basement while the sirens sound announcing new attacks on Kyiv Friday, February 25.Credit:AP
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A woman holds her daughter as they sit in a basement used as a bomb shelter in Kyiv on Thursday, February 24.Credit:AP
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Russian armoured vehicles on the territory of the captured Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Pripyat, Ukraine, on Thursday Feb 24, 2022. Russia's forces seized control of the former Chernobyl nuclear power plant about 60 miles from the capital Kyiv following fierce clashes with government forces.Credit:AFP
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Ukrainian citizens take an overnight rest in a temporary shelter in Przemysl, Poland after arriving in a train from Kiev on February 24, 2022.Credit:Omar Marques / Getty
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Rescuers work at the crash site of the Ukrainian Armed Forces' Antonov aircraft, which, according to the State Emergency Service, was shot down in Kyiv region, Ukraine, in this handout picture released February 24, 2022.Credit:Reuters
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A frame grab from a video posted on Twitter showing Ukraine air defence shooting down a Russian aircraft over Kyiv.Credit:Twitter
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A photo via Ukraine's State Emergency Services Department show a multi-storey building burning in southeast Kyiv. This is in the opposite side of the Dnieper river.Credit:Twitter/ @olex_scherba
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A screen grab from a video available via the New York Times showing newborn babies at a Dnipro children's hospital that have been moved into a bomb shelter.Credit:Dr Denis Surkov / via NYT
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People sheltering in the Kharkiv Subway. Credit:Twitter / danriversitv
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Smoke rising from the Chuhuiv Airbase outside of Kharkiv, Ukraine, Thursday, February 24.Credit:AP
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Police officers detain a demonstrator in St Petersburg, Russia on Thursday, February 24.Credit:Dmitri Lovetsky/AP
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People rest in the Kyiv subway, using it as a bomb shelter on Thursday, February 24, 2022.Credit:Emilio Morenatti / AP
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Ukrainian military vehicles carrying troops drive along a road in the outskirts of Severodonetsk, the Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine.Credit:AP
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Police detain an anti-war protester in Moscow on Thursday (local time). The poster reads: "I'm against the war." Protesting against the invasion of Ukraine ordered by Russian President Vladimir Putin is a dangerous and brave business in the Russian capital.Credit:AP
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Protesters are pictured during a demonstration in Berlin, Germany.Credit:Getty Images
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Satellite imaging shows damage at the Chuhuiv airfield in Chuhuiv, Ukraine, following attacks by the Russian military on the base, Thursday, February 24, 2022.Credit:AP
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A demonstrator holds up a sign with a illustration showing Russian President Vladimir Putin as Adolf Hitler as protesters gather outside the Russian embassy to demonstrate against the Russian military invasion of Ukraine in Vienna, Austria.Credit:Getty Images
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Demonstrators march with a banner that reads: "Ukraine - Peace, Russia - Freedom" in Moscow on Thursday after Russia's attack on Ukraine. Hundreds of people gathered in the centre of Moscow. Credit:AP
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Police officers detain demonstrators in Moscow, the Russian capital, on Thursday.Credit:AP
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A woman makes her way through debris in the aftermath of Russian shelling in Mariupol on Thursday after Vladimir Putin ordered troops into Ukraine.Credit:AP
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Smoke and flame rise from the debris of a house in the aftermath of Russian shelling outside Kyiv on Thursday.Credit:AP
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A child sleeps in an armchair in a shelter during Russian shelling in Mariupol, Ukraine on Thursday.Credit:AP
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Photo from the Ukrainian President's office sent to CNN following the loud explosions the team heard on the ground in Kyiv, Ukraine. Credit:Twitter
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A Russian KA-52 helicopter in a field outside Kyiv after an emergency landing. Russia on Thursday unleashed a barrage of air and missile strikes across Ukraine.Credit:AP
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Smoke rises from an air defence base in the aftermath of an apparent Russian strike in Mariupol, Ukraine on Thursday, February 24.Credit:AP
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The aftermath of an apparent Russian strike in Mariupol, Ukraine on Thursday. Credit:AP
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A damaged radar and car at a Ukrainian military facility outside Mariupol on Thursday.Credit:AP
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People in Kramatorsk, Ukraine were evacuating on Thursday after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an invasion.Credit:Getty
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People stand next to fragments of military equipment on the street in the aftermath of an apparent Russian strike in Kharkiv, Ukraine.Credit:AP
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A wounded woman is seen as airstrike damages an apartment complex outside of Kharkiv, Ukraine.Credit:Anadolu Agency
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A man stands next to the consequences of Russian shelling in Kyiv, Ukraine.Credit:EFREM LUKATSKY
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People wait for buses at a bus station as they attempt to evacuate Kyiv on February 24, 2022.Credit:Getty Images
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Ukrainian soldiers stand guard as people try to leave at the Kyiv train station.Credit:AP
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A woman and child peer out of the window of a bus as they leave Sievierodonetsk, the Luhansk region, eastern Ukraine.Credit:AP
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People travel in a tram in Sievierodonetsk, the Luhansk region, eastern Ukraine, Thursday, February 24, 2022. Credit:Vadim Ghirda/AP
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Ukrainian servicemen eat dinner after their duty at the frontline near Svitlodarsk, eastern Ukraine.Credit:AP
