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Civilians finally being evacuated from Mariupol are a welcome sight as people near Kyiv continue to return to their destroyed houses and one town resorts to flooding itself to stave off the Russians.
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Women walk past a destroyed apartment building in Mariupol.Credit:Alexei Alexandrov
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A family from Mariupol wait in their car to be registered by police after arriving at an evacuation point for people fleeing Mariupol, Melitopol and the surrounding towns under Russian control in Zaporizhzhia.Credit:Chris McGrath
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Natalia of Mariupol reacts after arriving at an evacuation point for people fleeing Mariupol, Melitopol and the surrounding towns under Russian control in Zaporizhzhia.Credit:Chris McGrath
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Yurii, 53, stands in his heavily damaged house, on May 2, 2022 in Fenevychi. The communities north of Kyiv were square in the path of Russia's devastating but ultimately unsuccessful attempt to seize the Ukrainian capital with forces deployed from Belarus, a Russian ally.Credit:Alexey Furman
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Marina, a Ukrainian woman waits in a car at a center for displaced people in Zaporizhzhia.Credit:Evgeniy Maloletka
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelinsky sits for a press conference in Kyiv.Credit:JOHN MOORE
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Women walk past a destroyed apartment building in Mariupol.Credit:Alexei Alexandrov
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In this aerial view, flooded gardens and fields are shown in Demydiv. To keep Russian armoured columns at bay, Ukrainian forces released water from a nearby hydroelectric dam to intentionally flood Demydiv, a village north of Kyiv. The decision was effective, but efforts to drain the area are complicated.Credit:Alexey Furman
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This frame taken from an undated video provided by the Azov Special Forces Regiment of the Ukrainian National Guard shows people walking over debris at the Azovstal steel plant, in Mariupol. As many as 100,000 people may still be in Mariupol, including an estimated 2,000 Ukrainian fighters beneath the sprawling, Soviet-era steel plant.Credit:AP
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A Soviet-era monument is seen in Molovata, Moldova. More than two months into the Russian invasion of Ukraine, fears of the conflict spilling over into Moldova, a country of 2.5 million inhabitants, have increased after two attacks on April 23 and 24 in the separatist region of Transnistria.Credit:ANDREEA CAMPEANU
