- Russia's war in Ukraine reached its one-year mark on Friday.
- Photos from the year of war show the damage and suffering the invasion has caused in Ukraine, and the resilience of the people it has most affected.
Editor's note: The following article contains graphic photos of dead bodies.
In the predawn hours of Feb. 24, 2022, the long-feared Russian invasion of Ukraine began.
The now yearlong war has become the largest air, sea and ground assault in Europe since World War II.
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The conflict has claimed the lives of more than 8,000 civilians and led to nearly 13,300 injuries. More than 8 million people have left the war-weary country since the invasion, in what has become the greatest exodus of refugees that Europe has witnessed since World War II.
Over the past year, Western weapons have poured into Ukraine in one of the world's largest arms transfers, and allies have imposed rounds of coordinated international sanctions against Russia.
February 2022
Ukrainian servicemen get ready to repel an attack in Ukraine's Lugansk region on Feb. 24, 2022.
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Chief of the General Staff of Russian Armed Forces Valery Gerasimov in Moscow on Feb. 27, 2022.
Russian GAZ Tigr infantry mobility vehicles were destroyed during fighting in Kharkiv on Feb. 28, 2022.
Olena Kurylo, a 52-year-old teacher, stands outside a hospital after the bombing of the eastern Ukraine town of Chuguiv on Feb. 24, 2022. Russian armed forces attempted to invade Ukraine from several directions, using rocket systems and helicopters to attack Ukrainian position in the south, the border guard service said.
Ukrainian service members unpack Javelin anti-tank missiles, delivered by plane as part of a U.S. military support package for Ukraine, at the Boryspil International Airport outside Kyiv, Ukraine, on Feb. 10, 2022.
The body of a Russian serviceman lies near destroyed Russian military vehicles on the roadside on the outskirts of Kharkiv on Feb. 26, 2022, following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
A refugee child fleeing Ukraine gestures while waiting for transportation at Nyugati station, in Budapest, Hungary, on Feb. 28, 2022.
March 2022
People standing near a Ukrainian national flag watch as dark smoke billows following an air strike in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv on March 26, 2022.
People remove personal belongings from a burning house after being shelled in the city of Irpin, outside Kyiv, Ukraine, on March 4, 2022.
Ukrainian police officers inspect a downed Russian drone in the area of a research institute, part of Ukraine's National Academy of Science, after a strike, in northwestern Kyiv, on March 22, 2022.
A Ukrainian serviceman helps evacuees gathered under a destroyed bridge as they flee the city of Irpin, northwest of Kyiv, on March 7, 2022.
A member of the Ukrainian special forces is seen in silhouette as he stands while a gas station burns after Russian attacks in the city of Kharkiv on March 30, 2022, during Russia's invasion launched on Ukraine.
April 2022
A Ukrainian soldier waves the national flag while standing on top of an armored personnel carrier on April 8, 2022, in Hostomel, Ukraine.
This photograph taken on April 6, 2022, shows a toy and personal belongings among rubble in front of a destroyed residential building in the town of Borodyanka, northwest of Kyiv.
A Ukrainian army soldier stands guard at the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant on April 26, 2022, in Chornobyl, Ukraine. Staff from the International Atomic Energy Agency visited Chornobyl on the 36th anniversary of the world's worst civilian nuclear incident.
Soldiers carry a coffin of 20-year-old Russian serviceman Nikita Avrov during his funeral at a church in Luga, some 150 kilometers south of Saint Petersburg, on April 11, 2022. He died on March 27, during the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine.
EDITOR'S NOTE: Graphic content. A communal worker releases the wrists of a dead man, with his hands tied behind his back, in the town of Bucha, not far from the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv on April 3, 2022.
EDITOR'S NOTE: Graphic content. Cemetery workers unload bodies of civilians killed in and around Bucha before they are transported to a morgue at a cemetery on April 7, 2022.
May 2022
An armored convoy of pro-Russian troops moves along a road during the Ukraine-Russia conflict in the southern port city of Mariupol, Ukraine, on April 21, 2022.
A view shows the Azovstal steel plant in the city of Mariupol on May 10, 2022, amid the ongoing Russian military action in Ukraine.
Families prepare to board a train at Kramatorsk central station to flee the eastern city in the Donbas region.
Smoke rises from an oil refinery after an attack outside the city of Lysychansk in the eastern Ukranian region of Donbas, on May 22, 2022, on the 88th day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy visits the Kharkiv region for the first time since Russia started attacks against his country, on May 29, 2022.
June 2022
Ukrainian fans cheer inside the stadium before a football playoff semifinal against Scotland at Hampden Park in Glasgow, Scotland, on June 1, 2022.
A girl rides a swing on a playground in front of a destroyed residential building in the town of Borodyanka on June 7, 2022, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
A Ukrainian serviceman mans a position in a trench on the front line near Avdiivka in the Donetsk region on June 18, 2022.
A view of a building partly destroyed in shelling in the Saltivka neighborhood of Kharkiv, Ukraine, on June 8, 2022.
A photograph shows anti-tank obstacles on a wheat field at a farm in southern Ukraine's Mykolaiv region, on June 11, 2022, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy attends a NATO summit via video link in Kyiv, Ukraine, on June 29, 2022.
July 2022
A woman rides a bicycle past a cloud of smoke from a fire in the background, after a missile strike on a warehouse of an industrial and trading company in Odesa on July 16, 2022.
Pedestrians walk past the tail section of a rocket, which is embedded in the ground, in Kramatorsk on July 4, 2022, the day after a Russian rocket attack.
An aerial picture taken on July 8, 2022, in the countryside of Siversk, in Donetsk Oblast, eastern Ukraine, shows wheat plantations burnt following air strike attacks of the Russian army in the region.
Rescuers evacuate the body of a person from a destroyed building after it was hit by a missile strike in the Ukrainian town of Serhiivka, near Odesa, on July 1, 2022. The strike killed at least 18 people and injured 30.
Local residents look at the damage to a building partially destroyed overnight during a missile strike on the outskirts of Kramatorsk, in the Donetsk region, on July 25, 2022.
Service members stand near coffins during a funeral for 58 unidentified soldiers of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic in Luhansk, Ukraine, on July 12, 2022.
August 2022
This aerial view shows the grain ship "Glory," as representatives of Russia, Ukraine, Turkey and the United Nations of the Joint Coordination Center inspect the vessel in Istanbul, Turkey, on Aug. 9, 2022.
A Ukrainian tank driver sits in his tank at the front line in the Donetsk region on Aug. 19, 2022, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Relatives gather in a hospital around three men injured in a missile strike in Mykolaiv, on Aug. 18, 2022, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
A Ukrainian artillery unit fires with a 2S7-Pion, a self-propelled gun, at a position near a frontline in the Kharkiv region on Aug. 26, 2022.
Children play at the symbolic cemetery of cars shot by Russian troops, some painted by local artists, in Irpin, on Aug. 9, 2022, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Firefighters respond in the rubble of the Culture Palace destroyed by a Russian missile strike in the second-largest Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, on Aug. 18, 2022.
Nadiya, the mother of late Ukrainian serviceman Roman Barvinok, mourns at his coffin during a funeral service in St. Michael's Golden-Domed Cathedral in Kyiv on Aug. 28, 2022, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
September 2022
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is pictured on a video screen as he delivers a recorded address to the 77th Session of the United Nations General Assembly at the U.N. Headquarters in New York, on Sept. 21, 2022.
Lybicheva Nina (fourth from left), 72, receives food items along with her grandchildren as Caritas Internationalis, a Catholic charity organization, distributes food to about 3,000 people in Kharkiv on Sept. 27, 2022.
A firefighter walks through rubble at a railway yard of the freight railway station in Kharkiv, which was partially destroyed by a missile strike, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine on Sept. 28, 2022.
A motorcade transporting the International Atomic Energy Agency expert mission, escorted by the Russian military, arrives at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant outside Enerhodar in the Zaporizhzhia region of Ukraine on Sept. 1, 2022.
Volunteers make camouflage nets for the Ukrainian military at The Lviv Art Palace in Lviv on Sept. 4, 2022, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
A coffin sticks out of a grave in a forest near Izium, eastern Ukraine, on Sept. 23, 2022, where Ukrainian investigators uncovered more than 440 graves after the city was recaptured from Russian forces, bringing fresh claims of war atrocities.
October 2022
A BM-21 'Grad' multiple rocket launcher fires at Russian positions in the Kharkiv region on Oct. 4, 2022.
An emergency worker carries dogs as he escorts a local resident outside a partially destroyed multi-story office building after several Russian strikes hit the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv on Oct. 10, 2022.
A crew member prepares a grain analysis for members of the Joint Coordination Center onboard the Barbados-flagged ship "Nord Vind," which was coming from Ukraine loaded with grain and anchored in Istanbul, on Oct. 11, 2022.
Black smoke billows from a fire on the Kerch bridge that links Crimea to Russia, after a truck exploded, near Kerch, on Oct. 8, 2022.
A self-detonating drone approaches for an attack in Kyiv on Oct. 17, 2022.
A young woman cries as she walks between portraits of dead servicemen during the opening of an open-air exhibition "Azov Regiment - Angels of Mariupol" in the center of Kyiv to mark Ukraine's Defenders Day on Oct. 14, 2022, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Ukrainian soldiers ride on an armored vehicle near the recently retaken town of Lyman in the Donetsk region on Oct. 6, 2022.
November 2022
A woman hugs a Ukrainian soldier as local residents gather to celebrate the liberation of Kherson, on Nov. 13, 2022, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelenskyy visits the city of Kherson for the first time after the withdrawal of Russian troops in Ukraine, on Nov. 13, 2022.
A crew of the BM-21 'Grad' multiple rocket launcher prepares to fire toward Russian positions on the front line near Bakhmut, on Nov. 27, 2022, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
People rest in a coffee shop in Lviv as the city faces scheduled power outages on Nov. 24, 2022, after Russian airstrikes on Ukrainian energy infrastructure.
December 2022
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addresses the U.S. Congress as U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris (left) and U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) hold a Ukrainian national flag at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. on Dec. 21, 2022.
U.S. President Joe Biden (right) welcomes Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to the White House on Dec. 21, 2022 in Washington, D.C.
Civilians take shelter inside a metro station during an air raid alert in the center of Kyiv on Dec. 13, 2022, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Workers repair high-voltage power lines cut by recent missile strikes near Odesa on Dec. 7, 2022, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
A Ukrainian serviceman of an artillery unit throws an empty shell as soldiers fire toward Russian positions on the outskirts of Bakhmut, in eastern Ukraine, on Dec. 30, 2022.
This aerial picture taken on Dec. 7, 2022 shows experts and employees of the prosecutor's office examining collected remnants of shells and missiles used by the Russian army to attack the second-largest Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
This photograph taken on Dec. 13, 2022, shows Lithuanian pianist Darius Majintas playing music by Ukrainian composer Valentin Sylvestrov on Kremyanets mountain in Izyum, Kharkiv, region, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
January 2023
Ukrainian soldiers return from the front line in Bakhmut, Ukraine, on Jan. 29, 2023.
Local residents pick up firewood donated by a charity fund in Stanislav, Kherson region, on Jan. 31, 2023, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Local resident Lubov, 71, carries goods received during a food aid distribution in the village of Lymany, Mykolaiv region, on Jan. 28, 2023, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
A Ukrainian serviceman gestures from atop a BMP-2 infantry combat vehicle in the Donetsk region on Jan. 30, 2023, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
A Ukrainian soldier walks past bloody stretchers outside a stabilisation hospital not far from the front line in Donetsk region on Jan, 15, 2023.
February 2023
Ukrainian soldiers look toward Russian positions on Feb. 14, 2023, near Bakhmut, Ukraine.
Soldiers of the 35th Separate Marine Brigade of the Ukrainian Army are on duty on the front line, in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, on Feb. 10, 2023.
Firefighters work among debris of a building destroyed by a rocket strike in Kramatorsk on Feb. 2, 2023, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
A view of the graveyard where fallen Ukrainian soldiers are buried, including Gennady Kovshyk, a soldier of the 92nd Separate Mechanized Brigade, in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on Feb. 16, 2023.
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