Bombed-out buildings, refugees forced to flee, death and destruction — what the country has endured since Russia invaded.
By IVO OLIVEIRA
Photo by Ed Jones/AFP via Getty images
When Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered troops into Ukraine on February 24, 2022, he had expected a quick and decisive victory.
But a year later, the Kremlin’s “special military operation” has faltered, failed to depose the government in Kyiv, and become a long and draining war set to continue through 2023.
Here’s a look back at the past 12 months of warfare in Ukraine.
A child on a swing outside a residential building in Kyiv damaged by a missile on February 25, 2022 | Pierre Crom/Getty Images
Black smoke rises from a damaged military airport in Chuhuiv near Kharkiv on February 24, 2022 | Aris Messinis/AFP via Getty images
A woman prays on Independence square in Kyiv on the morning of February 24, 2022 | Daniel Leal/AFP via Getty images
Firefighters work to salvage a building after bombings in the eastern Ukraine town of Chuhuiv on February 24, 2022 | Aris Messinis/AFP via Getty images
Police officers detain a woman during a protest against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in Moscow on February 24, 2022 | Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP via Getty images
A volunteer carries a Ukrainian child as refugees arrive in Przemsyl, eastern Poland, across the Medyka border crossing | Wojtek Radwanski/AFP via Getty images
Ukrainian women and children cross the border from Ukraine to Poland at the Korczowa-Krakovets border crossing on February 26, 2022 | Janek Skarzynski/AFP via Getty images
A badly damaged building in Kyiv after it was reportedly struck by a Russian rocket on February 26, 2022 | Daniel Leal/AFP via Getty images
A child learns how to use an AK-47 assault rifle during a civilians self-defense course on the outskirts of Lviv, western Ukraine, on March 4, 2022 | Daniel Leal/AFP via Getty images
A man says goodbye to his daughter before she boards an evacuation train at Kyiv central station on February 28, 2022 | Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP via Getty images
Refugees from Ukraine rest at a temporary shelter in the main train station of Krakow on March 6, 2022, as they wait to be relocated to other temporary accommodations in Poland or abroad | Louisa Gouliamaki/AFP via Getty images
Dmytro Mosur, 32, who lost his wife during shelling in nearby Severodonetsk on May 17, holds his 2-year-old twin daughters as they wait to be evacuated from the city of Lysychansk, eastern Ukraine, on May 20, 2022 | Aris Messinis/AFP via Getty images
This photograph taken on March 12, 2022 shows an abandoned doll next to a car riddled with bullets in Irpin, north of Kyiv | Sergei Supinsky/AFP via Getty images
Evacuees cross a destroyed bridge as they flee the city of Irpin, northwest of Kyiv, on March 7, 2022 | Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP via Getty images
Ukrainian soldiers help an elderly woman cross a destroyed bridge as she evacuates from Irpin | Sergey Supinsky/AFP via Getty images
A man carries a woman on his back as people flee Irpin on March 7, 2022 | Aris Messinis/AFP via Getty images
An injured resident stands by a residential building that was hit by the debris from a downed rocket in Kyiv on March 17, 2022 | Fadel Senna/AFP via Getty images
A man flees with his belongings in Kharkiv as fire engulfs a vehicle and building following artillery fire on March 25, 2022 | Aris Messinis/AFP via Getty images
A man on his mobile phone while smoke rises after Russian attacks hit a fuel storage facility in the city of Kalynivka, on March 25, 2022 | Fadel Senna/AFP via Getty images
Crosses are seen through smoke in the cemetery of Mykolaiv, southern Ukraine, on March 21, 2022 | Bulent Kilic/AFP via Getty images
A Ukrainian serviceman sits on a baby stroller under a destroyed bridge in the city of Irpin, northwest of Kyiv, on March 13, 2022 | Aris Messinis/AFP via Getty images
Ukrainian serviceman Andriy (R) carries the baby of a displaced family across a river on the outskirts of Kyiv on March 31, 2022 | Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP via Getty images
People walk in front of buildings destroyed by bombardment in the Ukrainian town of Borodianka, in the Kyiv region, on April 17, 2022 | Sergei Supinsky/AFP via Getty images
A Ukrainian soldier holds an anti-tank launcher at the front line northeast of Kyiv on March 3, 2022 | Aris Messinis/AFP via Getty images
Yevghen Zbormyrsky, 49, in front of his burning home after it was hit by a shell in the city of Irpin on March 4, 2022 | Aris Messinis/AFP via Getty images
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson (L) and Secretary-General of NATO Jens Stoltenberg review troops at the Tapa Army Base on March 1, 2022 in Tallinn, Estonia | Raigo Pajula/AFP via Getty images
Poland’s Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and Ukraine’s Minister for Communities and Territories Development Alexey Chernyshov (C) visit the new settlement for displaced people, which could welcome up to 350 people, in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv on April 19, 2022 | Yuriy Dyachshyn/AFP via Getty images
Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez (L) and Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen visit the small Ukrainian town of Borodianka on April 21, 2022 | Sergei Supinsky/AFP via Getty images
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and French President Emmanuel Macron embrace after giving a press conference in at Mariinsky Palace in Kyiv, on June 16, 2022 | Pool photo by Ludovic Marin via Getty images
Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi (L) and French President Emmanuel Macron (C) with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (not pictured) in Irpin on June 16, 2022 | Pool photo by Ludovic Marin via Getty images
A Ukrainian serviceman looks at a Russian ballistic missile’s booster stage that fell in a field in Bohodarove, eastern Ukraine, on April 25, 2022 | Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP via Getty images
People take part in an Easter Sunday service at a church on April 24, 2022 in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine | Chris McGrath/Getty Images
People take shelter in the Dorohozhychi subway station, which was turned into a bomb shelter on March 2, 2022, in Kyiv | Chris McGrath/Getty Images
A man walks near a burning warehouse hit by a Russian shell in the suburbs of Kyiv on March 24, 2022 | Fadel Senna/AFP via Getty images
This photo released on May 10, 2022 by the Azov regiment shows injured Ukrainian serviceman Mykhailo Dianov inside the Azovstal iron and steel works factory in eastern Mariupol, Ukraine | Dmytro Orest Kozatskyi/AFP via Getty images
Ukrainian serviceman in position on the front line in the south of Kharkiv region on July 11, 2022 | Anatolii Stepanov/AFP via Getty images
A Ukrainian soldier prepares mortar shells at a position along the front line in the Donetsk region on August 15, 2022 | Anatolii Stepanov/AFP via Getty images Ukrainian artillery unit fires with a 2S7-Pion, a self-propelled gun, at a position near the front line in Kharkiv region on August 26, 2022 | Ihor Thachev/AFP via Getty images
A Ukrainian tank driver sits in his tank at the front line in the Donetsk region on August 19, 2022 | Anatolii Stepanov/AFP via Getty imagesUkrainian artillery unit fires with a BM-27 Uragan, a self-propelled 220 mm multiple rocket launcher, at a position near the front line in Donetsk region on August 27, 2022 | Anatolii Stepanov/AFP via Getty images
An injured man stands on a street after Russian shelling of the Ukrainian city of Kherson on December 24, 2022, where five were killed and 20 injured | Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP via Getty images
A Ukrainian soldier stands in a small encampment in freezing temperatures on February 14, 2023 in Bakhmut, Ukraine | John Moore/Getty Images
