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Ukrainian troops, emboldened by sophisticated weapons and long-range artillery supplied by the West, went on the offensive against Russian forces in the northeast, seeking to drive them back from two key cities as the war plunged more deeply into a grinding, town-for-town battle.
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A Ukrainian tank crew trains with infantry nearby near Kryvyi Rih. Infantry soldiers learned scenarios to survive when potentially confronted with a Russian tank closing in at close range.Credit:JOHN MOORE
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A Ukrainian National Guard soldier enters an underground shelter at a position near Kharkiv.Credit:Felipe Dana
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A woman cries over the coffin of volunteer soldier Oleksandr Makhov, 36, a well-known Ukrainian journalist killed by Russian troops, at St Michael cathedral in Kyiv.Credit:EFREM LUKATSKY
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Russia's ambassador to Poland, Sergey Andreev, is pelted with red paint by protesters in Warsaw as he arrives at a cemetery to pay his respects to Red Army soldiers who died in World War II.Credit:Maciek Luczniewski
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A Ukrainian National Guard soldier sits inside a tank at a position near Kharkiv.Credit:Felipe Dana
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A Ukrainian medic comforts a wounded soldier in the back of a military ambulance after treatment at a frontline field hospital in Popasna.Credit:Chris McGrath
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Ukrainian medics at a frontline field hospital in Popasna treat soldiers suffering from minor injuries and concussions sustained during fighting. Russia's assault on Ukraine has now largely focused on the country's Donbas region, an area that includes two self-declared republics that Russia has supported since 2014.Credit:Chris McGrath
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Ukrainian infantrymen train near Kryvyi Rih.Credit:JOHN MOORE
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Ukrainian infantrymen train near Kryvyi Rih. The frontline with Russian troops lies only 70km to the south in Kherson Oblast, most of which is controlled by Russia.Credit:JOHN MOORE
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Maryna Ponomareva, 5, recovers in a hospital a week after losing her left leg above the knee when her home was shelled in Kryvyi Rih. Her mother, Natalia Ponomareva, (41), who was also seriously injured, said Russian forces shelled the house in their frontline village of Vysokopilla last week in southern Ukraine. She said the family escaped while still under fire to a Ukrainian army checkpoint and were then transported north to different hospitals.Credit:JOHN MOORE
