Russia’s invasion of Ukraine upended millions of lives this year. The war has woven a tapestry of devastation: civilians and soldiers killed, homes destroyed, families sundered, millions of people made refugees. Neighbors turned against each other.
Loss and resilience: Photos from a year of war in Ukraine © Heidi Levine for The Washington Post
As the fighting rages on, its grinding length and scale risk blotting out or blurring together the passing moments of trauma, resilience, mourning, exhaustion and camaraderie that punctuate the lives of a people under invasion. | Washington Post photojournalists have braved danger to capture lasting images of loss and love, which tell the story of 10 months of life in a nation at war.
George Keburia says goodbye to his wife, Maya, and children in Odessa as they board a train to Lviv in early March, near the start of the war in Ukraine. © Salwan Georges/The Washington Post
Irina Maniukina plays her piano after a strike in a residential area of Bila Tserkva on March 5. © Wojciech Grzedzinski for The Washington Post
Ukrainian forces carry an elderly man near a bridge destroyed by Russian missiles in March as thousands flee Irpin. © Heidi Levine for The Washington Post
Ukrainian authorities investigate civilian deaths in Bucha in March. © Heidi Levine for The Washington Post
Relatives of Ukrainian soldier Ivan Lipskiy grieve by his casket in Odessa during a funeral for him and five other soldiers in Mykolaiv in March. A Russian airstrike hit the 36th Ukrainian Naval Infantry Brigade, killing more than 40 soldiers. © Salwan Georges/The Washington Post
Ukrainian soldiers take cover under a tank during intense Russian shelling in Lyman. © Heidi Levine for The Washington Post
Volunteers on May 3 clear an area of Kharkiv, Ukraine, that was destroyed in a strike. (Wojciech Grzedzinski for The Washington Post)
Maria Kamianetska, 36, is held by her mother and sister as she kisses her baby, Serhii Podlianov, during his funeral in the Zaporizhzhia region in November. He was killed less than 48 hours after his birth when a Russian missile struck a hospital maternity unit. © Heidi Levine for The Washington Post
One of three men captured in March by Ukrainian soldiers, who alleged the men were looting homes in Irpin. It was not possible to independently verify the accusations. The men were stripped naked and tied to poles. Two of them had potatoes stuffed in their mouths. © Heidi Levine for The Washington Post
A victim in the aftermath of suspected Russian missile strikes in September that killed at least 25 Ukrainians as they waited to deliver aid in Zaporizhzhia. © Wojciech Grzedzinski for The Washington Post
People in Mykolaiv board buses April 5 to evacuate to Odessa. © Michael Robinson Chavez/The Washington Post
Ukrainian soldiers lie exhausted after their unit was hit by Russian cluster bombs while pulling back from the front on June 26. © Heidi Levine for The Washington Post
People line up to receive boxes of aid on Nov. 15 in Kherson. © Ed Ram for The Washington Post
The floor under Ideya Mykolayivna, 89, is stained with the blood of a young soldier who she said was killed in a strike on her apartment block in Slovyansk in May. © Heidi Levine for The Washington Post
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