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More and more Ukrainians are coming face-to-face with the recovery effort ahead as they return to destroyed homes and infrastructure, but there are still some parts of the country where people have no option but to flee.
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Anna Shevchenko, 35, next to her home in Irpin. The house, built by Shevchenko's grandparents, was nearly 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.Credit:Emilio Morenatti
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People with children wait in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, after arriving from Mariupol.Credit:Evgeniy Maloletka
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Local residents on the street in Borodyanka. 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:Anastasia Vlasova
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Smoke rises from an iron and steel factory in Mariupol.Credit:AP
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Destroyed residential buildings with a Ukrainian flag in Borodyanka.Credit:Anastasia Vlasova
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Flowers and candies as seen in the rubble of a residential building in Borodyanka.Credit:Anastasia Vlasova
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President Joe Biden speaks on security assistance to Ukraine during a visit to the Lockheed Martin Pike County Operations facility, where they manufacture Javelin anti-tank missiles.Credit:Evan Vucci
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The Chairman of the German Christian Democratic Party (CDU) Friedrich Merz, left, and Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko look at a city map during their meeting in Kyiv.Credit:Efrem Lukatsky
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A man inspects a destroyed residential building in Borodyanka.Credit:Anastasia Vlasova
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Anastasia Biriuk, 70, shows the scars from the debris wounds in Termakhivka. Anastasia got wounded as a result of numerous missile strikes in the area on February 24th. Biriuk's house also got damaged by the debris. Termakhivka was occupied by the Russian soldiers for a month, and Anastasia didn't have access to the hospital so her husband Ivan took care of her injuries.Credit:Anastasia Vlasova
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Police officers search the surrounding area as fire and smoke are seen following explosions after a Russian missile strike in Lviv. Its mayor, Andriy Sadovyi, said on the social media service Telegram that multiple power substations had been damaged by missile strikes, injuring at least two people. Some parts of the city are experiencing power outages.Credit:Leon Neal
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A woman sits alone on a bus after arriving at an evacuation point for people fleeing Mariupol in Zaporizhzhia. Dozens of refugees were expected to arrive here from Mariupol, including the Azovstal steel facility, following extensive negotiations between representatives of Ukraine, Russia, the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross.Credit:Chris McGrath
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A firefighter works to extinguish a fire following a Russian bombardment at a park in Kharkiv.Credit:Felipe Dana
