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A snapshot of Ukraine as seen by Kate Geraghty
56 ImagesThe Herald’s Gold Walkley Award-winning photojournalist Kate Geraghty and national security correspondent Anthony Galloway were in Ukraine to cover the war, with the support of the Judith Neilson Institute.
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In Kharkiv's Kholodna Hora area, Galyna Rasstanna 86, awaits her fate - unable to leave the war zone. Credit:Kate Geraghty
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A man looks at the damage in a street after bombing that hit the military police building in the city centre of Kharkiv on the night of March 6.Credit:Kate Geraghty
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A young girl looks towards the Medyka border crossing on the Ukrainian-Polish border where a new life awaits her and her mother. Credit:Kate Geraghty
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The Nova Bavariya area of Kharkiv has been turned into a wasteland. Credit:KATE GERAGHTY
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Misha, 11, recalls the arrival of planes, followed by a missile attack at 2:40am on the residential area of Kramatorsk. Credit:KATE GERAGHTY
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Residents clean up their damaged apartment after missiles landed nearby. Credit:KATE GERAGHTY
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Liudmyla Rudska, 64, wipes tears from her face. She has lived in an 'impact zone' for eight years. Credit:Kate Geraghty
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A sunny day in Avdiyivka - home to one of Europe's largest Coke plants in the Donbas Region. Credit:Kate Geraghty
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A group of women from Uman tie strips of donated material creating camouflage nets in a community shelter in Uman. The nets are used at checkpoints and strategic positions by the Ukrainian military, police and civil defence.Credit:Kate Geraghty
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Maksym, 23, is a commander of a unit in the 30th Brigade and is stationed in the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine. Credit:KATE GERAGHTY
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Liudmyla Pavliuk (left) and her husband Mykhaylo Pavliuk wait in their backyard bomb shelter in Krasnohorivka. Liudmyla is the head of the administration in charge of several villages.Credit:Kate Geraghty
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Viktor Baklanov, 3, plays a game on a tablet in the basement at Kharkiv No 4 Emergency Hospital. Viktor was in the car with his mum and brother Volodymyr when they were shot at and their mother was killed. Credit:Kate Geraghty
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Volodymyr Baklanov, 7, lies in intensive care from a bullet wound at Kharkiv No 4 Emergency Hospital. Volodymyr was driving with his mum and younger brother Viktor when they were shot at, his mum was killed in the attack. Kharkiv, Ukraine. Credit:KATE GERAGHTY
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As the sounds of incoming artillery and air raid sirens fill the air, a man walks towards his apartment building in Avdiyivka. Credit:Kate Geraghty
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People wait to reach the passport control office on the Ukrainian side of the Medyka border crossing on the Ukrainian-Polish border.Credit:KATE GERAGHTY
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A volunteer serves hot tea to people fleeing the conflict in Ukraine, hoping to cross the Polish border. Credit:KATE GERAGHTY
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A young couple embrace on the platform at Lviv railway station.Credit:Kate Geraghty
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Crowds inside Lviv railway station queue to catch the train to Poland. Credit:Kate Geraghty
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People gather outside the Lviv railway station where trains and buses leave for Poland. According to the United Nations, more than half a million people have fled Ukraine since the beginning of the Russian invasion.Credit:KATE GERAGHTY
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Oxana serves hot tea and sandwiches in front of her home to people heading to the Medyka border crossing on the Ukrainian-Polish border. Credit:KATE GERAGHTY
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Katya, 35, with her four sons Daniel (8), Svyatoslav (5), Ustinov (4) and Denys (8) are part of a queue heading to the Medyka border crossing.Credit:Kate Geraghty
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Ella and Maria seek warmth outside the Lviv railway station.Credit:KATE GERAGHTY
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A long line of vehicles on the outskirts of Letychiv head west to Lviv. People fleeing attacks in Kharkiv have been using this route to Lviv and then to Poland. Credit:Kate Geraghty
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After escaping Kharkiv on the first day of shelling, Ivanova Marina gives soup to her 7-year-old twin son Nikita at a community shelter in Uman.Credit:Kate Geraghty
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A Ukrainian soldier walks past buildings damaged by an airstrike that hit the military police building in the city centre of Kharkiv.Credit:Kate Geraghty
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In Kharkiv's Kholodna Hora area, residents board up damaged windows after an airstrike. Credit:Kate Geraghty
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Serhiy Okhonenko, 47, looks up at his destroyed roof, hit by one of two known missile strikes on Kramatorsk that killed two people. Credit:KATE GERAGHTY
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A woman and baby sleep in the basement at Kharkiv No 4 Emergency Hospital. The families of patients and staff and their families are among the 1000 people seeking refuge from the shelling in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Credit:Kate Geraghty
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An intensive care nurse at Kharkiv No 4 Emergency Hospital changes the dressings of a 9-year-old boy who was seriously injured in a mine explosion. Credit:KATE GERAGHTY
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Civilian students learn how to apply a tourniquet correctly during a trauma medical training session by a combat paramedic in Dnipro. Credit:Kate Geraghty
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One of the Ukrainian Unit Commanders Nazar, at a headquarters for a frontline position at Avdiyivka in eastern Ukraine. Credit:Kate Geraghty
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Mattresses line the floor of the Zaporizhzhya Circus ring in preparation for people fleeing Mariupol. The city has been bombed out of existence since this photo was taken on March 6.Credit:Kate Geraghty
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Tamara Zubko, the director of the Zaporizhzhya Circus, checks on a wolf. The circus' main building has been converted into a reception and distribution centre in preparation for people fleeing Mariupol. Credit:Kate Geraghty
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Tetiana Onopriienko, 16, is in her last year of high school and is volunteering to make camouflage nets in a community shelter in Uman. The nets are used at checkpoints and strategic positions by the Ukrainian military, police and civil defence. Credit:Kate Geraghty
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Destroyed buildings, hit by airstrikes in the city centre of Kharhiv. Credit:Kate Geraghty
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Soldiers with the 30th Brigade wait at an observation post on the front line in the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine. Credit:KATE GERAGHTY
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English teacher, Vyacheslav, 49, with the 30th Brigade on the front line in the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine. Vyacheslav took up arms on February 28, four days after the Russian invasion started. Credit:KATE GERAGHTY
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Maksym, a commander of a unit and sub-unit commander in the 30th Brigade walk away from the front line in the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine. Credit:KATE GERAGHTY
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Olena Miroshnychenko, 45, looks out the window that was destroyed when mortars landed in the backyard of her home in Kamyanka village on the contact line in East Ukraine. Kamyanka, Donetsk Oblast, East Ukraine. Credit:Kate Geraghty
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Volodymyr Khala stands next to an unexploded missile that landed in his front yard after hitting his house in a village east of Kyiv. East of Kyiv, Ukraine. Credit:Kate Geraghty
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Damaged buildings in a street hit during an airstrike in the city centre of Kharkiv. Credit:Kate Geraghty
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An elderly woman emerges out of her destroyed apartment building impacted by an airstrike on March 1 in Nova Bavariya, Kharkiv.Credit:Kate Geraghty
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Rabbi Schmuel Kaminezki at the Golden Rose synagogue in Dnipro which receives people fleeing Kharkiv. Credit:Kate Geraghty
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A view through broken windows at an apartment that was impacted by shelling in 2017. Avdiyivka is home to one of Europe's largest Coke plant and is on the frontline of the 8-year long war in the Donbas Region. Credit:Kate Geraghty
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Hennadiy, 17,whose mother was killed in an airstrike on his neighbourhood, stands with his great grandmother Halyna Lohina, 85, moments after they were evacuated out of Irpin, Ukraine. Credit:Kate Geraghty
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People from Irpin are assisted by emergency services after they were evacuated out of Irpin, Ukraine. Credit:Kate Geraghty
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Ukrainian soldiers with the 72nd Brigade on a destroyed bridge in a village east of Kyiv. Credit:Kate Geraghty
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As the sound of shelling fills the air, Oleksandr Dovbnya, 66, talks on the phone with a relative in front of his apartment building in Avdiyivka. Credit:Kate Geraghty
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A billboard on the road from Dnipro to Zaporizhzhia shows an image of Putin with the words PUTIN F--- YOU.Credit:Kate Geraghty
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A street in the Lukyanivska area of Kyiv looks like a wasteland after airstrikes. Credit:Kate Geraghty
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Ukrainian soldiers stand guard on a destroyed bridge in a village east of Kyiv.Credit:Kate Geraghty
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Ukrainian emergency services retrieve the body of a Russian soldier. On this day, there are six bodies of Russian soldiers that were to be handed over to the Red Cross in an exchange for two Ukrainian prisoners of war. Credit:Kate Geraghty
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Two men walk past the bodies of Russian soldiers that lay on a road near a destroyed bridge east of Kyiv. Credit:Kate Geraghty
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Locals walk towards their home over a destroyed bridge laid with anti-tank mines, east of Kyiv. Credit:KATE GERAGHTY
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A soldier with the 30th Brigade stands in the trenches on the front line in the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine - a scene reminiscent of WWI. Credit:KATE GERAGHTY
