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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Fragments of shrapnel that were removed from the wounded at a medical facility near Avdiyivka in March 2024.

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A young woman cries as she bids farewell to family members during an evacuation of Pokrovsk, in the Donetsk Region on August 30, 2024.

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A sign advertises assistance with evacuation out of Pokrovsk on a street in the eastern Ukrainian city in late September 2024.

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A overview of fires burning in a settlement around Pokrovsk in September 2024.

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Artem, a 40-year-old Ukrainian commander, shouts a warning before his artillery team fires toward Russian positions near Pokrovsk in early October 2024.

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The mother of fallen soldier Danylo Lyashkevych weeps over his coffin during his funeral in Kyiv on November 8, 2024.

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A woman holds her dog in the wake of a Russian strike in Kyiv on December 20, 2024.

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A child is led away from the impact site of a Russian strike on Kyiv on December 20, 2024.

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The entrance to Kyiv's Lukyanivska subway station damaged by a Russian attack on January 18, 2025.

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A crater at the site of the Russian attack near the Lukyanivska subway station in Kyiv on January 18, 2025.

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People gather to commemorate Ukraine's 2014 Euromaidan protests in Kyiv on February 20, 2025.
The protests in 2013-14 helped push Moscow-friendly President Vitkor Yanukovych from power. Russia responded by seizing Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula and fomenting unrest that led to conflict in the eastern Donbas region. Russia launched its full-scale invasion of the country in February 2022.
The protests in 2013-14 helped push Moscow-friendly President Vitkor Yanukovych from power. Russia responded by seizing Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula and fomenting unrest that led to conflict in the eastern Donbas region. Russia launched its full-scale invasion of the country in February 2022.