The Ukraine War in Pictures - Destruction, Resistance and Hope
Created: 05/25/2022, 16:43
By: Daniel Dillmann
On February 24, 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine.
Since then, war has been raging between Luhansk and Lviv.
We have put together the most impressive pictures for you.
1 / 21The atrocities of war become clear on the first day of the Russian attack on Ukraine.
Bombs fall on the city of Chuhuiv.
Helena, a 53-year-old teacher, stands in front of the city's hospital with serious injuries and needing emergency treatment.
© Aris Messinis/afp
2 / 21The "Z" can be found on almost all military vehicles of the Russian army, as here at the Perekop checkpoint near the Crimean peninsula.
It later becomes a symbol of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
© Sergei Malgavko/dpa
3 / 21At the beginning of the Ukraine war, there were demonstrations in numerous Russian cities, like here in Moscow.
The state power in the Kremlin acts with all severity against the participants.
Thousands of people are arrested.
© Sergei Mikhailichenko/afp
4 / 21People are taking to the streets worldwide against the Ukraine war.
A demonstrator in Montreal (Canada) makes it clear who she blames for the suffering in Ukraine: Russia's President Vladimir Putin.
© Andrei Ivanov/afp
5 / 21Volodymyr Zelenskyj reports from Kyiv with a nightly video message - while the Russian attack on the capital is underway.
As the war progresses, the president becomes the figurehead of the Ukrainian resistance to the Russian invasion.
© Facebook/afp
6 / 21Russia's losses can be attributed primarily to the high morale of the Ukrainian population.
This woman is being trained on an AK-47 assault rifle in Lviv.
© Daniel Leal/afp
7 / 21The battle for Kyiv rages on, especially in the initial stages.
The capital of Ukraine is badly scarred by Russian attacks.
But the resistance persists.
Putin's army fails to capture Kyiv.
© Daniel Leal/afp
8 / 21A seven-year-old girl from Ukraine made it to Moldova.
According to UNHCR, more than six million people fled Ukraine in the first three months of the war alone.
© Nikolay Doychinov/afp
9 / 21Irpin, a suburb of Kiev, comes under fire from Russian artillery.
Yevghen Zbormyrsky, 49 years old, seeks shelter from the attack from Russia in front of his destroyed house.
© Aris Messinis/afp
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10 / 21 Traces of blood on a train in Kramatorsk used to evacuate civilians bear witness to the atrocities of the Ukraine war.
© Fadel Senna/afp
11 / 21The cohesion between the army and the population in the Ukraine war is exemplary.
In Irpin, soldiers help evacuate a woman across a destroyed bridge.
© Aris Messinis/afp
12 / 21In the middle of the war, Valery (left) and Lesya exchange vows in an outpost outside of Kyiv.
Both are fighting in the army of Ukraine against Russia.
© Genya Savilov/afp
13 / 21Volodymyr Zelenskyj gives a speech in the German Bundestag via video link.
The Ukrainian President received applause for his historic performance - and later the promise to supply heavy weapons from Germany.
© Michael Kappeler/dpa
14 / 21Vitali Klitschko in Kyiv, devastated by Russian attacks.
The former world boxing champion is mayor of the Ukrainian capital and organizes the resistance against Russia's armies there.
© Sergei Supinsky/afp
15 / 21Russia repeatedly fired on Kyiv.
At least six people die in a missile attack on a shopping mall.
© Aris Messinis/afp
16 / 21Not only Kyiv, but also Kharkiv was fiercely fought over at the beginning of the war.
A man flees the city while Russian missiles fall in the background.
© Aris Messinis/afp
17 / 21Russia has to accept unexpectedly high losses in the Ukraine war.
A number of destroyed tanks and military vehicles bear witness to this, the remains of which can be seen on a road towards Bucha.
© Aris Messinis/afp
18/21 The battle for Mariupol raged for weeks.
The port city in eastern Ukraine resembles a rubble field.
A Russian soldier records the destruction on his cell phone.
© Alexander Nemenov/afp
19/21 Rocket attacks play a particularly important role in the Ukraine war.
A Ukrainian soldier inspects the remains of a Russian-stock ballistic missile in a field near Bohodarove in the east of the country.
© Yasuyoshi Chiba/afp
20 / 21Residents from Mariupol arrive in Zaporizhia in south-eastern Ukraine.
Among them are numerous people who stayed in the shelters of the Azovstal steelworks for almost two months.
© dpa
21 / 21The fighters of the Azov steel plant in Mariupol are celebrated like heroes in Ukraine.
For weeks they held off the Russian army and withstood the siege.
In the end, and after high losses, the Kremlin announces that it will take over the steelworks and thus control of Mariupol.
© Dmytro 'Orest' Kozatskyi/afp
