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War
Ukraine Prays
People pray as the Russian invasion rages at the Church of the Most Holy Apostles Peter and Paul in Lviv, Ukraine on March 18, 2022.
Soldiers and residents pray as the Russian invasion rages in their country at the Church of the Most Holy Apostles Peter and Paul in Lviv, Ukraine on March 13, 2022.
Religious statues are wrapped for protection at the Church of the Most Holy Apostles Peter and Paul in Lviv, Ukraine on March 12, 2022.
Soldiers and residents pray as the Russian invasion rages in their country at the Church of the Most Holy Apostles Peter and Paul in Lviv, Ukraine on March 12, 2022.
Vladimir Ozarkov and Ulyana Kudla decided to move their wedding up as the Russian invasion rages in their country at the Church of the Most Holy Apostles Peter and Paul in Lviv, Ukraine on March 13, 2022. His deployed to fight was postponed one day so they could marry and have a one-night honeymoon. ‘On Sunday morning we are a happy family’, he said.
Soldiers and residents pray as the Russian invasion rages in their country at the Church of the Most Holy Apostles Peter and Paul in Lviv, Ukraine on March 12, 2022.
Exodus
People fleeing the Russian invasion board a train for Poland at the central station in Lviv, Ukraine on March 14, 2022. The refugee exodus is the largest in Europe since WWII.
Olga says farewell to her boyfriend Volodymyr as soldiers head east to the front in the war with Russia at a train station in Lviv, Ukraine on March 9, 2022.
People fleeing the Russian invasion evacuate through a train station in Lviv, Ukraine on March 8, 2022. The refugee exodus is the largest in Europe since WWII.
Displaced people fleeing the Russian invasion evacuate through the central train station in Lviv, Ukraine on March 16, 2022.
Final look at loved ones as displaced people fleeing the Russian invasion evacuate to Poland through the central train station in Lviv, Ukraine on March 16, 2022.
Ukraine Dies
Wreckage of war and bodies lie in the streets of Bucha, recently liberated from invading Russian troops in the suburbs of Kyiv, Ukraine on April 4, 2022.
Wreckage of war and bodies lie in the streets of Irpin and Bucha, recently liberated from invading Russian troops in the suburbs of Kyiv, Ukraine on April 3, 2022.
Wreckage of war and bodies, including those that appear to be Russian soldiers, lie in the streets of Irpin and Bucha, recently liberated from invading Russian troops in the suburbs of Kyiv, Ukraine on April 3, 2022.
Wreckage of war and bodies lie in the streets of Irpin and Bucha, recently liberated from invading Russian troops in the suburbs of Kyiv, Ukraine on April 3, 2022.
Investigators begin the grim work of pulling bodies from a mass grave and assessing evidence of war crimes as families gather searching for missing loved ones in Bucha, Ukraine on April 8, 2022. Wreckage of war and bodies littered the streets of Bucha, recently liberated from invading Russian troops in the suburbs of Kyiv where atrocities have been reported.
Investigators begin the grim task of pulling bodies from a mass grave behind the Church of St. Andrew and All Saints, while assessing evidence of war crimes in Bucha, Ukraine, recently liberated from Russian troops, on April 11, 2022.
Investigators begin the grim work of pulling bodies from a mass grave and assessing evidence of war crimes as families gather searching for missing loved ones in Bucha, Ukraine, recently liberated from invading Russian troops, on April 8, 2022.
The body of Marina Naumec, 32 years old, was exhumed by police with her husband and a friend, Lesya, from a makeshift grave in the backyard of her home in Bucha, Ukraine on April 12, 2022. It is not known how she died, she did not wake up one day during the war and her friend begged for permission from the Russian troops to bury her. She left behind three children. There were three other people buried in the yard, all shot in the eye. Police and body collectors are gathering bodies for proper burials and to be examined for war crimes evidence. Bucha was recently liberated from invading Russian troops in the suburbs of Kyiv where atrocities were reported.
Body bags of people recovered from a mass grave and throughout the town are lined up at a cemetery for transport to the morgue as investigators begin the grim task of assessing evidence of war crimes in Bucha, Ukraine on April 9, 2022.
Investigators and volunteers begin grim work of chronicling civilian deaths and assessing evidence of war crimes in Bucha, Ukraine, recently liberated from Russian troops, on April 6, 2022. Over 320 bodies have been recovered.
Investigators and volunteers begin grim work of chronicling civilian deaths and assessing evidence of war crimes in Bucha, Ukraine, recently liberated from invading Russian troops, on April 6, 2022.
Irina Guryanova— the wife of Serhiy and the sister of Roman views their bodies on April 4, 2022. In a garden of a home in Bucha, Ukraine, recently liberated from Russian troops, were three bodies - Serhiy, his brother-in-law Roman who had been shot in the head and another civilian. Neighbors said Serhiy remained in Bucha to care for his dogs. In a wheelbarrow nearby was the body of one of the dogs that had been shot.
Investigators begin the grim task of pulling bodies from a mass grave behind the Church of St. Andrew and All Saints, while assessing evidence of war crimes in Bucha, Ukraine, recently liberated from Russian troops, on April 11, 2022.
Urkaine Mourns
A couple attend a funeral for Denys Anatskyi, who died near Chuhuiv from mortar fire in Kharkiv, Ukraine on June 24, 2022. His wife and daughter, born in January, are now under occupation in Melitopol.
Maria embraces the body of her son Didykh Taras as a funeral is held for three soldiers killed in the Russian invasion at the Church of the Most Holy Apostles Peter and Paul in Lviv, Ukraine on March 11, 2022.
A funeral is held for two fallen soldiers, Mykola Dmytrovych and Roman Fedorovich at the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Starychi, Ukraine on March 16, 2022. They were killed in a Russian airstrike at International Center for Peacekeeping and Security military base in Yavariv, close to the Polish border. The emotional service was followed by a procession through the town and burial was at a local cemetery.
A funeral is held for four fallen soldiers (Oleh Yaschyshyn, Sergiy Melnyk, Rostyslav Romanchuk and Kyrylo Vyshyvany) killed in a Russian airstrike at International Center for Peacekeeping and Security military base in Yavariv, close to the Polish border. The emotional service was held at the Church of the Most Holy Apostles Peter and Paul and burial was at Lychakivske cemetery in Lviv, Ukraine on March 15, 2022. Tanya, daughter of one of the soldiers that died was in another building and said the shock wave was so strong that their bulletproof vests just fell apart.
A funeral is held for two fallen soldiers, Mykola Dmytrovych and Roman Fedorovich at the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Starychi, Ukraine on March 16, 2022. They were killed in a Russian airstrike at International Center for Peacekeeping and Security military base in Yavariv, close to the Polish border. The emotional service was followed by a procession through the town and burial was at a local cemetery.
A funeral is held for three soldiers killed in the Russian invasion at the Church of the Most Holy Apostles Peter and Paul in Lviv, Ukraine on March 11, 2022.
A funeral is held for two fallen soldiers, Mykola Dmytrovych and Roman Fedorovich at the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Starychi, Ukraine on March 16, 2022. They were killed in a Russian airstrike at International Center for Peacekeeping and Security military base in Yavariv, close to the Polish border. The emotional service was followed by a procession through the town and burial was at a local cemetery.
Mykola Dmytrovych is mourned by his family as a funeral is held for two fallen soldiers in Starychi, Ukraine on March 16, 2022. They were killed in a Russian airstrike at International Center for Peacekeeping and Security military base in Yavariv, close to the Polish border. The emotional service was held at the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary followed by a procession through the town and burial was at a local cemetery.
A funeral is held for three soldiers killed in the Russian invasion at Church of the Most Holy Apostles Peter and Paul in Lviv, Ukraine on March 11, 2022.
“I have no tears left,” said Natalia Bogdanov who was finally able to bury her husband Eugene Bogdanov in Bucha, Ukraine on May 10, 2022. He was killed during the Russian invasion and the family made a heart wrenching effort to identify his body at the cemetery a few days before when two coffins arrived for burial that had been misidentified and were not him. His body was exhumed from a makeshift grave weeks ago and they had hoped to give him a proper funeral but had to resume the search at morgues for his remains when they realized neither of the decomposing corpses were their loved one. She had already spent two months opening body bags of unidentified persons looking for him. Funerals for victims of the Russian invasion continue in Bucha, recently liberated from Russian forces in the suburbs of Kyiv where atrocities have been reported.
Natalia Bogdanov who was finally able to bury her husband Eugene Bogdanov in Bucha, Ukraine on May 10, 2022.
Natalia Bogdanov who was finally able to bury her husband Eugene Bogdanov in Bucha, Ukraine on May 10, 2022.
Ukraine Returns
Residents have been living in basement bunkers as shelling continues in Pyatikhatki, a neighborhood in Kharkiv, Ukraine on May 1, 2022. A strike hit approximately 800 meters from their shelters that day. Ruska Lozova, a nearby town, was recently liberated from Russian forces but intermittent shelling continues.
‘Why are we alive and my son is dead?’ wept Nadia Yakivna, 80 years old as she views her home reduced to rubble in Irpin, Ukraine on May 7, 2022. She and her daughter, Svetlana Magyrovks, 58 returned the day after her son’s funeral to salvage items from the home and clean up. The town was liberated from Russian forces and slowly people are returning to rebuild.
They had evacuated to Mukachevo and returned after two months searching for the body of Alexander Stukalo, only finding him in a Kyiv morgue with assistance from a telegram app channel.
In early March they hid in their basement but were very frightened after the first bombing at an apartment building across the street and moved to a larger bunker. During the next air raid when the planes flew very low directly overhead, they ran in their nightclothes to that basement, but Alexander stayed in the house where he died. His body was eventually found in the wreckage at the end of April.
Nadia loved flowers so very much, and she now looks at tulips blooming amid the debris in her once pristine garden. Svetlana gave her mother cleaning tasks to help focus on something other than the constant grief and tears. It’s the only thing that calms her, but she still quietly weeps sitting at the scrubbed kitchen table for lunch of vegetables preserved in a jar they found in the ruins.
‘I’ll never forget the sound of the bombing,’ said Svetlana as she helped her mom navigate the debris on their walkway to rest for the night at a nearby apartment. They will again return tomorrow to pick up the pieces of shattered lives.
Svetlana Magyrovks, 58 returned the day after her brother’s funeral to salvage items from the home and clean up. The town was liberated from Russian forces and slowly people are returning to rebuild.
Lyubov Ivanovna Vlasenko, 70 years old and her husband Gennady Ivanovich Sergeev, 74 have lunch in a bunker as shelling occurs in Pyatikhatki, a neighborhood in Kharkiv, Ukraine on May 1, 2022. A few days ago they left Ruska Lozova, a town liberated from Russian forces. Vitaly Ignatov, 52 helped evacuate them and puts up a Ukrainian flag in the bunker. They lived for two months during the occupation, but on the 26th heavy fighting began at night and they decided to leave in the morning. On the same day a shell hit their house and they don’t know if their apartment survived. Lyubov questioned, “In the news they say that Putin is sick, but when will he die?”
Farmer Oleksandr Novikov, 58 years old, lost 80 cows and 30 pigs during two months of Russian artillery shelling and occupation in Vilkhivka, Ukraine on May 14, 2022. The towns on the outskirts of Kharkiv have been liberated as Ukrainian forces push Russians back to the border. Tetyana Andreichyk, goddaughter of Oleksandr, was injured by shelling and described how she witnessed another worker killed at the farm and her nephew later died at hospital.
Sasha Zolotov in his destroyed apartment keeps a rescued German Shepard he named Crocodile. He couldn’t find the dog’s family, so for now he is serving with the army 128th brigade.
Men waited with flowers for their ladies as evacuees returned by train and later that day Russian shelling killed at least nine civilians and nineteen were injured in the city of Kharkiv, Ukraine on May 26, 2022. Russian forces had been pushed back in a Ukrainian counter-offensive and the city had been relatively calm and started coming back to life recently with residents having a false sense of security that it was out of artillery range.
A woman was killed and several injured during Russian shelling at a school in the city of Kharkiv, Ukraine on June 2, 2022. It was believed she had just returned from evacuation and was sheltering in the school as Russian forces continue bombardment of the city in an apparent terror campaign even though Ukrainian forces have pushed them back to the outskirts.
Twins Solomiya and Veronica Makaruk, 4 years old, visit make a visit with their parents to view damages at a vehicle graveyard and around the town of Irpin, Ukraine on May 8, 2022. The family had evacuated but visited after Irpin was recently liberated from Russian forces.