The Ukraine conflict - in pictures
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Ukrainian fighters test an automatic grenade launcher taken from a destroyed Russian infantry vehicle in Kharkiv. AFP -
Refugees from Ukraine rest after arriving at a railway station in Przemysl, Poland. AP -
People walk down 17th June Street in Berlin before a rally against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. AP -
Vitali Klitschko, Mayor of Kiev and former heavyweight boxing champion, right, and his brother, Wladimir. AP -
Khreshchatyk, Kiev’s main street, lies empty as a curfew comes into effect. AP -
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks to the nation from Kiev. AP -
On February 27, the seventh anniversary of the assassination of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, a note stating ‘No to war!’ is placed among flowers on the central Moscow bridge on which he was shot. AFP -
A member of the Ukrainian forces, wearing the Guy Fawkes mask popularised by Anonymous, patrols central Kiev. AFP -
Sviatoslav Yurash, 26, a politician from President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s Servant of the People party, poses with his assault rifle as he patrols Kiev. AFP -
A Ukrainian serviceman and his dog look at smoke from a burning fuel storage depot after a Russian missile attack near Kiev. EPA -
A refugee who fled conflict in Ukraine rests at a railway station after arriving in Zahony, Hungary. AP -
A refugee boy who fled Ukraine cries at the railway station in Zahony, Hungary. AP -
Civil defence members eat during a break at City Hall in Kiev. AP -
An Indian student is embraced by his family at Chennai Airport after returning from Ukraine. EPA -
Smoke is seen rising from behind buildings following bombings in Kiev. Getty -
An armed civil defence woman holds a Kalashnikov assault rifle while patrolling an empty street in Kiev. AP -
A woman fleeing from Ukraine cries as she waits to be taken to a shelter in Zahony, Hungary. Reuters -
Ukrainian refugees cross the Romanian border at Siret, northern Romania. EPA -
A residential building damaged by shelling in Kharkiv, north-eastern Ukraine. AFP -
Apartments damaged by shelling in Kharkiv. AFP -
A girl protests against Russia's military operation in Ukraine, in front of the Russian embassy in Tel Aviv. AFP -
Young women protest in Tbilisi, Georgia with their hands painted in the colors of the Ukrainian flag. Getty -
Supplies for Ukrainian refugees at one of three camps set up at the MoldExpo exhibition center, in Chisinau, Moldova. EPA -
Police detain a demonstrator during a protest against Russia's incursion into Ukraine in St Petersburg. AP -
A man waits at a bus stop in St Petersburg, which has been with a painted in the colours of Ukraine's national flag. EPA -
Russian ground forces approaching Nova Kakhovka, southern Ukraine. AP -
A woman holds her daughter's hand as they arrive by bus from the Polish-Ukrainian border. Getty -
A man drives his car full of food supplies to deliver to the Ukrainian side of the border, where thousands wait to enter Poland. Getty -
Refugees arrive with buses from the Medyka pedestrian border crossing, in Przemsyl, eastern Poland. AFP -
People gather to catch a train and leave Ukraine for neighboring countries at the railway station in Lviv, western Ukraine. AP -
Cars form a line that stretches 35 kilometres from the Shehyni border crossing to Poland as people try to flee Russia's military operation against Ukraine. Reuters -
Helena, right, and her brother Bodia, left, from Lviv, wait at the Medyka border crossing in eastern Poland. AFP -
A Ukrainian soldier walks past debris of a burning military truck, on a street in Kiev. AP -
People run for cover during the shelling on the city of Kiev. AP -
A child refugee who fled the conflict in Ukraine covers her face in the event hall of a hotel offering shelter in Siret, Romania. AP -
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy holding a briefing in Kyiv. He said that Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev and Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan have suggested talks with Russia, which 'can only be welcomed'. AFP -
Ukraine's ambassador to the US, Oksana Markarova, at a news conference in the embassy of Ukraine, Washington. AP -
Manchester City footballers wear t-shirts in support of Ukraine before a match. Reuters -
Ukrainian refugees arrive in Warsaw by train from Kiev. EPA -
A woman waves a Ukrainian flag during a rally in Times Square, New York City. AFP -
A man sits next to his dogs in an underground car park turned into a bomb shelter during an air raid alert in Kiev. AP -
A woman sleeps on chairs in a Kiev bomb shelter. AP -
A satellite image with overlaid graphics shows military vehicles alongside the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. Reuters -
A satellite image shows the effects of shelling in open fields along Soborna Street in the north-east suburbs of Kharkiv. Reuters -
A big fire at a petroleum storage depot after a Russian missile attack, in Vasylkiv, near Kiev. EPA -
Ukrainian servicemen take positions at a military airbase in the Kyiv region. Reuters
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