In Pictures: 3 Years Of War In Ukraine
Photojournalist Serhiy Nuzhnenko of RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service has spent three years intensively covering the war in his country. We selected 36 of his most powerful pictures of the conflict.
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A woman hugs her child in a subway station in Kyiv during the first day of the Russian invasion on February 24, 2022.
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Civilians look at a destroyed Russian armored column in Bucha, near Kyiv, on March 1, 2022. The town was finally captured by Russian troops days after this photo was taken, but they withdrew less than a month later. Following Moscow’s retreat, evidence of war crimes emerged in Bucha, drawing international condemnation.
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Civilians fleeing from Bucha and Irpin on March 11, 2022.
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A woman greets Ukrainian troops as they enter a recaptured town in the northern Chernihiv region on April 2, 2022.
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Oleksandr, a military chaplain, blesses a Ukrainian soldier in the northeastern Kharkiv region on April 24, 2022.
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Yuriy, a Ukrainian tank mechanic, photographed in the eastern Donetsk region on June 11, 2022.
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Damaged apartment blocks in Saltivka, a suburb of Kharkiv, seen on September 13, 2022.
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The body of a Ukrainian soldier, found with his hands tied behind his back, in a mass grave near Izyum, in the Kharkiv region, on September 16, 2022.
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A firefighter battles a blaze after a Shahed suicide drone attack in Kyiv on October 17, 2022.
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A 9-year-old girl named Sofiyka hugs her guinea pig during her evacuation from Makiyivka, in the eastern Luhansk region, on November 19, 2022.
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Ukrainian troops fire a howitzer provided by Western allies in the Donetsk region on November 23, 2022.
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A Ukrainian soldier's bloodied body armor photographed near Soledar, in the Donetsk Region on January 23, 2023.
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The center of Bakhmut, in the Donetsk Region, photographed on February 25, 2023.
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A Ukrainian serviceman in Bakhmut on February 25, 2023.
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A Ukrainian soldier photographed as his position was being shelled in May 2023.
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Ukrainian soldiers seen after the storming of a Russian position near Bakhmut in May 2023.
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A Russian soldier is given water after his capture by Ukrainian forces near Bakhmut in May, 2023.
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A Ukrainian soldier in a battle-damaged building in Blahodatne in the Donetsk Region on June 17, 2023.
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Workers celebrate after the installation of the Ukrainian trident on the shield of Kyiv's motherland monument on August 6, 2023. The massive trident replaced a Soviet emblem.
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The aftermath of a missile strike on the center of Chernihiv on August 19, 2023.
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A soldier walks beneath a mural in the embattled town of Avdiyivka in the Donetsk Region in November 2023.
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A member of a Ukrainian mortar team pauses for a sunrise cigarette at a position near Bakhmut in December 2023.
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Ukrainian troops watch the sky for enemy drones at a position near Bakhmut on March 6, 2024.
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A barista at work inside her explosion-damaged cafe on March 25, 2024 after a Russian missile hit central Kyiv.
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Firefighters pick through the rubble of a building in Kyiv destroyed by a falling Russian missile on March 25, 2024.
