The body of a Russian soldier lies dusted with snow on the outskirts of Kharkiv in February 2022
Fourth graders warm up for dance class at Avdiivka’s School Number 7 in eastern Ukraine, three days before Russia launched its full-scale invasion of the country in February 2022
A cleaner sweeps up debris outside Mykolaiv's ruined regional government headquarters, hit by a Russian missile in March 2022
A Ukrainian soldier guards a group of prisoners-of-war in Mykolaiv ahead of a secret front-line exchange for Ukrainian POWs held by the Russians
The mother of 41-year-old soldier Serhiy Hussidi sits next to his coffin and strokes his hair while mourners look on in his home village of Kiryakivka, southern Ukraine, after shrapnel killed this former PE teacher while battling the Russian advance
A civilian man is treated for shrapnel wounds as an ambulance speeds to a hospital in Kostyantynivka - screenshot from Channel 4 News short doc
Thousands of people gather at Kharkiv’s train station to flee the besieged east in February 2022
Daria Holovantenko scrolls on her phone before going to a Sunday church service with her family in Avdiivka, eastern Ukraine, a few days before Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022
Emergency services personnel gather round the body of a civilian man who was killed by shrapnel from a Russian shell while driving through central Toretsk, a front-line town in eastern Ukraine
A Ukrainian soldier walks by the wreckage of a downed Russian helicopter near the Mykolaiv front line, southern Ukraine, in May 2022
Ukrainian soldiers guard the entrance to Kharkiv on day three of the Russian invasion in February 2022
An old lady living by the front-line in Donbas asks a fireman to treat her husband after he suffered his third stroke - screenshot from Channel 4 News short doc
A sign reading ‘Avdiivka is Ukraine’ is seen on the town’s outskirts in February 2022
In freezing temperatures, hundreds of Ukrainian refugees wait to cross into Poland at the border village of Uhryniv in March 2022
A man walks past a destroyed apartment block in the front-line town of Avdiivka in February 2022
Smokes comes off a fireman’s jacket during a mission to extinguish a blaze in a front-line Donbas village - screenshot from Channel 4 News short doc
A Ukrainian soldier ducks for cover in a makeshift trench on the outskirts of Kharkiv in February 2022
Refugees from Kharkiv arrive at a school in Vinnytsia, central Ukraine, offering shelter to those fleeing the invasion in March 2022
Soldiers run to their barracks in Kharkiv on the first day of the Russian invasion in February 2022
Fresh laundry hangs on a washing line outside one of the few inhabited apartments in a block damaged by Russian artillery strikes on the outskirts of Mykolaiv, southern Ukraine, in June 2022
A boy sits next to his mother as she waves goodbye to relatives in Toretsk, a front-line town in eastern Ukraine subjected to daily bombings by Russian forces - screenshot from Channel 4 News short doc
Displaced families are offered a hot meal in the canteen of a school in Vinnytsia, central Ukraine, providing refuge to those fleeing the invasion in March 2022
The gun turret of a destroyed tank lies on the northbound road from Kharkiv in February 2022
Sasha, a veteran fireman in his 50s, has a haircut at a fire station in Donetsk region - screenshot from Channel 4 News short doc
Surgeons gather round Tatiana after she was wounded by an exploding Russian shell in her garden and rushed to this operating theatre in Kostyantynivka. Her husband, Ivan, was killed on the spot - screenshot from Channel 4 News short doc
A Ukrainian soldier goes on patrol in the front-line village of Zaitseve in August 2015 during the Donbas war in eastern Ukraine
Civilians prepare to flee the besieged east from Kharkiv’s train station in February 2022
A helmet and other military items litter the road around a destroyed Russian armoured vehicle on the outskirts of Kharkiv in February 2022
Elizaveta Yevseyeva, 62, is pulled from the wreckage of her small cottage, destroyed by a Russian shell on the outskirts of Toretsk in eastern Ukraine - screenshot from Channel 4 News short doc
A Ukrainian soldier walks past a mural in a destroyed school in the front-line village of Pisky in 2015 during the Donbas war
A man smokes in his car as the sun rises over Kharkiv on the first of day of the Russian invasion in February 2022
Firemen eat dinner at their base in Toretsk, a front-line town in eastern Ukraine - screenshot from Channel 4 News short doc
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