Two boys walk towards a playground past apartment buildings destroyed in Russian attacks in Borodyanka, Ukraine. Borodyanka was occupied by Russian troops at the beginning of their full-scale invasion last year.
A woman takes a selfie with Banksy’s artwork on the wall of a building damaged by Russian attacks in Borodyanka, Ukraine, Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2023. Borodyanka was occupied by Russian troops at the beginning of their full-scale invasion last year.
A man plants sunflowers in his garden near a damaged Russian tank and its turret in the village of Velyka Dymerka, in Brovary Raion (district) of Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine, Wednesday, May 17, 2023.
A Ukrainian police officer stands in front of a partially destroyed building after an air strike in the town of Rzhyshchiv, in Ukraine’s Kyiv region on Wednesday, March 22, 2023.
Sunflowers, a beloved symbol of Ukraine, and a family of storks adorn the shattered walls of Irpin's Central House of Culture. With the Ukrainian government lacking the funds for widespread reconstruction, many residents are forced to restore their own homes and make use of any functioning public facilities.
Local resident Mykola Kobzarenko inspects the remains of his garage, destroyed during a Russian drone strike, in the village of Stari Bezradychi, Obukhiv district of Kyiv Region, Ukraine, December 19, 2022.
Evacuees living in container housing in Bucha brave freezing temperatures and power cuts. Ukrainian civilians who have fled Russian-occupied cities in the east, along with local Bucha residents who have lost their homes, do their best to cope with temporary modular housing. But with electricity frequently cut off, they improvise for sources of heat while their children bundle up and try to do homework before the next outage.
Men connect a homemade light with a battery to illuminate the pitch ahead of a soccer game during a blackout in Irpin, Kyiv region, Ukraine, Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2022. For soccer lovers in Ukraine, Russia's invasion and the devastation it has wrought have created uncertainties about both playing the sport and watching it. For Ukrainians these days, soccer trails well behind mere survival in the order of priorities.
A plate with frozen food is seen in the apartment of Tetiana Reznychenko. Her apartment has no electricity, heating, or water and is on the fifth floor of a building destroyed by a Russian military strike in the Ukrainian village of Horenka.
Local residents shovel snow as a work of world-renowned graffiti artist Banksy is displayed on the wall (L) of a destroyed building in the Ukrainian village of Horenka, which was heavily damaged by fighting in the early days of the Russian invasion, November 19, 2022.
Kateryna Tyshchenko, accompanied by her 9-year-old half-sister Yuliia Zaika, stands outside her prefabricated accommodation which was built next to her destroyed house in the village of Moshchun near Kyiv, Ukraine, November 8, 2022.
A view of a fuel depot hit by Russian missile in the town of Kalynivka, about 30 kilometers (18 miles) southwest of Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, Oct. 27, 2022. Environmental damage caused by Ukraine’s war is mounting in the 8-month-old conflict, and experts warn of long-term health consequences for the population.
Catherine, 70, looks out the window while holding a candle for light inside her house during a power outage, in Borodyanka, Kyiv region, Ukraine, Thursday, Oct. 20, 2022. Airstrikes cut power and water supplies to hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians on Tuesday, part of what the country's president called an expanding Russian campaign to drive the nation into the cold and dark and make peace talks impossible.
A fisherman watches smoke rise after Russian forces launched a missile attack on a military unit in the Vyshhorod district on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, July 28, 2022.
Vadym Schvydchenko stands next to his truck recentely damaged by a mine on a dirt track near Makariv, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, June 14, 2022. The detonation of the 7.5-kilogram (16-pound) explosive charge blew Vadym Schvydchenko and his daughter's toy clean out of the cabin. The truck — and his livelihood — went up in flames.
Flowers in the rubble: Ukrainian woman sees a sliver of hope. Anna Shevchenko, 35, reacts next to her home in Irpin, near Kyiv, Tuesday, May 3, 2022. The house, built by Shevchenko's grandparents, was nearly completely destroyed by bombing in late March during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In her beloved flowerbed, some roses, lilies, peonies and daffodils survived. "It is new life. So I tried to save my flowers," she said.
Women clean inside a damaged building at the Vizar company military-industrial complex in Vyshneve, Ukraine, on April 15. The site, on the outskirts of Kyiv, was hit by Russian strikes. (Vyshneve is a city 2 km south of Kyiv in Ukraine. It is in the Bucha Raion of Kyiv Oblast.)
General view of a room in an administrative building in the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, where Ukrainian National Guard servicemen were held as hostages since the start of Russian invasion, on April 8.
— Photo by Mikhail Palinchak / EPA / EFE/ Shutterstock
Destruction is seen in Borodianka on April 5. Borodianka was home to 13,000 people before the war, but most fled after Russia's invasion. What was left of the town, after intense shelling and devastating airstrikes, was then occupied by Russian forces.
— Photo by Matthew Hatcher / SOPA Images / Sipa USA / AP
An elderly lady is assisted to cross the Irpin river on an improvised path under a bridge, that was destroyed by Ukrainian troops designed to slow any Russian military advance, while fleeing the area on March 5.
54-year-old Igor Mazhaev in the ruins of his house. As a result of the shelling, Igor lost his wife and 12-year-old daughter. The village of Markhalivka (Fastiv district of the Kyiv region).
A residential building destroyed by shelling is seen in Borodyanka, Ukraine, on March 3. Russian forces have shown a 'willingness to hit civilian infrastructure on purpose,' a senior US defense official told reporters.