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A DEVASTATING WAR IN UKRAINE

  • Mourners grieve for Roman Ratushny who was killed on 9 June, 24, who was a well-known civic activist. He was serving as a military intelligence officer for the 93th Mechanised Brigade ‘Kholodny Yar’ when killed near Izyum in Kharkiv. Roman Ratushny represented everything that the Russian regime is trying to destroy in Ukraine. Photo by Paula Bronstein
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  • In Borodyanka, a man stares at the beauty of a rainbow after April showers followed by sunshine, creating a rainbow over a destroyed apartment building, heavily damaged by aerial bombardment. Photo by Paula Bronstein @2022
  • A drone shot over the most devastated area of Irpin, that was shelled during Russian occupation for over a month starting in late February.
  • Residents of Irpin make their way over a destroyed bridge on March 13, 2022 as Russians continue their military incursion of the Kyiv suburb.
  • Elena Pomaz from Kherson, under Russian occupation cries as she holds her children, Liza, age 6, and Sofia ,4 months on July 1, 2022. The family got emotional after relatives came on board to visit them, saying goodbye was difficult. The train arrives daily to Dnipro from Ukraine’s war ravaged eastern region carrying refugees for a brief stopover en route towards Lviv.
  • KHERSON, UKRAINE - Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenksy makes a surprise visit to Kherson on November 14, 2022 in Kherson, Ukraine. Zelensky wanted to offer support to residents of the liberated city occupied by Russian for over 8 months. (Photo by Paula Bronstein /Getty Images)
  • KRASNOTORKA, UKRAINE - Leda Buzinna, 56, stands outside her home, that was seriously damaged by shelling overnight when two S-300 missiles hit a rural neighborhood on October 4, 2022 outside of Kramatorsk district in Krasnotorka, Ukraine. Leda has facial injuries that were treated in a local hospital and she was released, her husband injured his leg in the attack. They have been living in the home for 18 years. They will get help for home repair from the government. Leda was sleeping when the missile hit their bedroom..(Photo by Paula Bronstein /Getty Images)
  • LOSOVA: Galina Rybak and daughter Milana ,10, cry after saying goodbye to family escaping their village on board a bus heading to Lviv.
  • BUCHA: Valya grieves over the body of her husband Alexander Kudin on April 8,2022 as body bags line the Bucha city cemetery.
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  • As rain clouds approach at a Kharkiv cemetery, soldiers and relatives attend a military funeral for Denys Anatskyi, 26, a senior soldier killed near Chuhuiv on June 20th.
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  • At a Kharkiv cemetery, a Ukranian soldier says goodbye with a kiss on the forehead of Maxim Shcherbak, 29, who was killed on June 19th in the Donbas region.
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  • ZAZYMYA, UKRAINE - Friends and relatives mourn the death of Volodymyr Chovgun, 34, during his funeral at the St. Elizabeth New Martyr’s Convent on October 15, 2022 in Zazymya, Brovary district, Ukraine. Volodymyr was killed in Kyiv on October 10th by a Russian missile attack on his way to work, his brother survived with severe injuries currently still hospitalized. At least eight people were killed and 51 injured in Kyiv during the attack. (Photo by Paula Bronstein /Getty Images)
  • BUCHA : Workers in protective suits take dozens of bodies to the morgue from the Bucha cemetery for forensic examination and eventual burial on April 12, 2022.
  • IZIUM, UKRAINE - Unidentified makeshift graves are seen at the Pishanske cemetery on September 23, 2022 in Izium, Ukraine. A final total of 447 bodies was exhumed from the gravesite, including 22 soldiers and 5 children. The bodies will be examined by forensic officials for possible war crimes. Izium was recently liberated from Russian occupation after six months. (Photo by Paula Bronstein /Getty Images)
  • DONETSK DISTRICT, UKRAINE - A soldier with serious head and eye wounds is seen after an operation at a hospital where military are treated on October 8, 2022 in Donetsk District, Ukraine. Working according to NATO standards since 2014, doctors and nurses treat life threatening traumatic injuries, stabilizing patients, it is the second point in the chain of military evacuation. Most of the soldiers treated suffer from artillery wounds caused by shelling, along with mine injuries. Military doctors and nurses live and work at the facility. (Photo by Paula Bronstein /Getty Images)
  • DONETSK DISTRICT, UKRAINE - A seriously inured soldier with multiple wounds is seen in the emergency trauma room at a hospital where military are treated on October 8, 2022 in Donetsk District, Ukraine. Working according to NATO standards since 2014, doctors and nurses treat life threatening traumatic injuries, stabilizing patients, it is the second point in the chain of military evacuation. Most of the soldiers treated suffer from artillery wounds caused by shelling, along with mine injuries. Military doctors and nurses live and work at the facility. (Photo by Paula Bronstein /Getty Images)
  • Viktor Zakharchuk is seen recovering at the Brovary hospital on March 19, 2022 he was injured when his home in Zalissya was shelled. The family hid in a neighbor’s home as the battle raged around them, they were eventually rescued and take to the Brovary general hospital.
  • BUCHA: Bodies are seen in the back of a building on April 3, 2022 with their hands tied killed execution style.
  • A man rides his bicycle past a destroyed shopping center as a dead body lays on the road in Bucha on April 6, 2022.
  • IRPIN: Irpin criminal investigators and police gather evidence after exhuming the body of a man and two women who died from shelling, taken to another area in the neighborhood for burial.
  • BORODYANKA, UKRAINE - Tetyana Safonova, 61, sits with her cat Asya as she looks at her mobile phone during a power outage on October 20, 2022 in Borodyanka, Ukraine. Tetyana wasn’t able to buy candles in town because of the sudden demand given the unpredictable power cuts that the government has imposed around Ukraine. Restricted power supplies and limited electricity started today so that energy companies could repair power facilities hit by a wave of recent Russian air strikes. (Photo by Paula Bronstein /Getty Images)
  • Kharkiv: After a shopping center was shelled workers take out the shoes from a destroyed sporting goods store next to the Heroiv Pratsi metro station in the north of the city that has been hit by constant Russian attacks.
  • A girl plays volleyball with her father on June 24,2002 against the ruins of a school that was destroyed amongst many other educational institutions as Russian shelling hits Kharkiv constantly.
  • CHERNIHIV: Galina Selivon, 77, stands in her destroyed home on April 16, 2022 her home for 50 years. She lives by herself, her husband and also her son died, only her grandson is alive in Kyiv. She survived the bombing in the basement used for potato storage.
  • KHERSON, UKRAINE - Kherson residents fight the crowds for humanitarian aid from World Food Program on November 18, 2022 in Kherson, Ukraine. During the Russian withdrawal after nine months of occupation, Russian military destroyed the TV tower along with the power grid, leaving no electricity or water, regardless the mood is celebratory.(Photo by Paula Bronstein /Getty Images)
  • KYIV: Iryna Dubovyk,35, gives birth to her second child, baby boy Tymophiy is seen moments after birth weighing 3.7kg at the Isida maternity hospital. Isida is a high quality private maternity hospital that is offering free medical care for all women in need.Photo Paula Bronstein for The Times
  • KYIV: Mothers are seen with their newborn babies in the shelter at the Kyiv maternity hospital Number #5. The hospital has set up everything in the shelter including the delivery room. Photo Paula Bronstein for The Times
  • The body of Bogdan Volodymyrovych Holyb, 52, killed near Dryzba in Luhansk region on May 15th is surrounded by family at a cathedral in Lviv.
  • Mourners grieve for Roman Ratushny who was killed on 9 June, 24, who was a well-known civic activist. He was serving as a military intelligence officer for the 93th Mechanised Brigade ‘Kholodny Yar’ when killed near Izyum in Kharkiv. Roman Ratushny represented everything that the Russian regime is trying to destroy in Ukraine. Photo by Paula Bronstein
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