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By The New York Times
Russian forces are on the move again, attacking trenches and ruined towns with hail from artillery shells, a year after sweeping Ukraine’s borders en masse.
Many Russian troops were recruited just a few months ago and are now fighting alongside army personal contractors and ex-convicts. They reinforced an invasion that left tens of thousands of civilians and foot soldiers dead, even as Ukrainian forces thwarted it again and again during the first year of fighting. .
After a stampede to protect itself last spring, Ukraine drove Russia from the outskirts of the capital, Kiev. The summer brought fierce artillery fighting to the east, with Russia gaining ground in exchange for a heavy price. Ukraine retaliated in two regions at once, claiming land in the south and sweeping thousands of miles in the northeast.
Now, after a winter of long battles in the east, Ukraine will strike back with new weapons from foreign supporters.
For a year, photographers from The New York Times and other media outlets recorded the war, capturing a part of how civilians lived through it. Our photographers say that some photographs will never leave them.
This gallery of graphic images.
Medical personnel took a woman injured by a cluster bomb to a residential community in an ambulance in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, on March 18. At least one user was killed and 3 injured in the afternoon attack, which destroyed homes and cars in the community.
A priest leads a rite in Kiev, Ukraine, on March 14 to honor Ukrainian volunteers killed since Russia annexed Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula and Russian-backed separatists triggered an insurgency in the eastern Donbass region.
A resident walked further as municipal staff repaired lines of force toppled at the end of a Russian attack in Kostiantynivka, Ukraine, on March 18.
Two other people sat in front of a memorial wall in Kiev on March 14 to those who lost their lives since Russia’s annexation of Crimea.
Civilians marched in the streets of Siversk, a town north of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk province, on March 16. As the war for Bakhmut intensified, Siversk was partially surrounded by Russian forces and was the target of bombing.
A Ukrainian soldier treated on March 19 after being wounded at the front in the Bakhmut region.
A medical employee of the 80th Air Assault Brigade assists Vasil Nikitin Oleksandrovich, a Ukrainian soldier of the 5th Separate Assault Brigade, who was wounded by shrapnel in the Bakhmut region on March 17.
A civilian in Siversk took refuge in a basement opposite the bombings in March.
Ukrainian infantrymen on March 11 in a trench on the outskirts of Toretsk in Donetsk province, where Russian forces attacked with small arms, rocket-propelled grenades and artillery fire.
On March 10, Ukrainians carried the coffin of Dmytro (da Vinci) Kotsiubailo on their shoulders to Maidan Nezalezhnosti Square in Kiev.
Oleksandr, 37, bidding farewell to his wife, Yana, 31, and daughter Ivanna, 5, on March 10. They were with him for 10 days in Kramatorsk, one of the next cities on the line of the Russian offensive after Bakhmut.
Cars set on fire in Kiev’s Sviatoshynskyi district on March 9. Portions of missiles landed in a residential parking lot, causing the destruction of several cars.
Soldiers from the mortar unit of the Third Brigade attacked Russian forces on March 7 near Bakhmut.
Soldiers from the Adam Battalion tank unit ready on 7 March as they headed for the front line near Bakhmut.
A crowd at a memorial on March 10 in Kiev.
A resident walks down the road as smoke rises since the March 10 Russian rocket attack on a shopping complex in the city of Sloviansk.
A soldier from Ukraine’s 24th Mechanized Brigade on the front line outside Toretsk walked past the frame of a separatist fighter on March 7.
Ukrainian military fired rockets on March 9 from a self-propelled multiple launch armored rocket system, M270 MLRS, in eastern Ukraine. The high-precision weapon, developed through the United States, procured through the British Army and shipped to Ukrainian forces last year. .
A Ukrainian soldier from the 79th Air Assault Brigade fights Russian forces from a trench in the disputed domain of Marinka in eastern Ukraine on Feb. 26. This position is not far from Russian forces.
A Ukrainian helicopter deploys flares of countermeasures after firing rockets at a combat project in eastern Ukraine on Feb. 25.
Ukrainian infantrymen from the self-propelled artillery department of the 17th Tank Brigade fire fire on a Russian infantry position near Bakhmut on March 3.
Children from a circle of relatives evacuated from Kramatorsk, Ukraine, dine on a meal provided through a non-governmental organization, Save Ukraine, at a medicine center on March 1 in the city of Pokrovsk before being transferred to the capital, Kiev.
Residents remove internal rubble from a school that was bombed by Russian forces on the night of March 6 in Kramatorsk, Donetsk province.
A Ukrainian soldier from the 79th Air Assault Brigade takes the canopy of incoming bombing raids on the disputed domain of Marinka, eastern Ukraine, on Feb. 26. This position is not far from Russian forces.
Viktor, 73, and Lyudmila, 67, giving their details at a rehabilitation center in Pokrovsk, Ukraine, after volunteers evacuated them from Chasiv Yar on March 1.
Ukrainian troops in a trench in Ukraine less than a quarter of a mile from Russian fighters on Feb. 26.
Ukrainian infantrymen atop a tank heading towards the front line near Bakhmut on March 5.
Family members on February 25 at a cemetery in Bucha, Ukraine, for the funeral of a 24-year-old Ukrainian soldier, Ihor Dyukarev, killed in fighting in the Luhansk region.
Members of the floor team of the Sikorsky Army’s 18th Aviation Brigade resupply a helicopter gunship with rockets ahead of a project in Ukraine on February 25.
On March 1, citizen volunteers from eastern Ukraine visited the town of Chasiv Yar, near the town of Bakhmut, where Russia and Ukraine have been fighting since August.
An apartment building destroyed by an artillery attack in Chasiv Yar, near Bakhmut, on March 5.
Crew members of the Sikorsky Army’s 18th Aviation Brigade prepare a helicopter gunship ahead of a project in eastern Ukraine on February 25.
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