5 March 2022
![People crowd as they try to get on a train to Lviv at the Kyiv station](/assets/images/kyiv/NINTCHDBPICT000716341857.jpg)
People crowd as they try to get on a train to Lviv at the Kyiv station.
— Photo by AP
![Civilians leave Kyiv](/assets/images/kyiv/22030918.jpg)
Civilians leave Kyiv.
— Photo by Sergei Supinsky / AFP / Scanpix / LETA
![A serviceman of the Territorial Defense Forces of Ukraine at a checkpoint in Kyiv](/assets/images/kyiv/2203096521.jpg)
A serviceman of the Territorial Defense Forces of Ukraine at a checkpoint in Kyiv.
— Photo by Mikhail Palinchak / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA
![Locals fill sandbags to use it to strengthen roadblocks on the roads leading to Kyiv](/assets/images/kyiv/220309698722.jpg)
Locals fill sandbags. They are used to strengthen roadblocks on the roads leading to Kyiv.
— Photo by Dmytro Smolyenko / Ukrinform / Zuma / Scanpix / LETA