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Gallery: Ukraine-Russia crisis, April 17, 2022
As Ukrainian citizens flee for Poland, the people left behind confront the carnage of war.
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Nadiya Trubchaninova, 70, cries while holding the coffin of her son Vadym, 48, who was killed by Russian soldiers last March 30 in Bucha, during his funeral in the cemetery of Mykulychi, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine.Credit:RODRIGO ABD/AP
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Members of the Ukrainian military walk amid debris as firefighters work to extinguish a fire after a shopping center was hit by a Russian missile strike in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Credit:Chris McGrath/GETTY IMAGES
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Maria Fomintseva, 80, seen in her backyard in Horenka, Ukraine. Credit:Anastasia Vlasova/GETTY IMAGES
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A view of a house destroyed as a result of a shellfire in Horenka, Ukraine. Credit:Anastasia Vlasova/GETTY IMAGES
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A view of a playhouse in a backyard in Horenka, Ukraine. Credit:Anastasia Vlasova/GETTY IMAGES
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Children sheltering in a subway turned into a makeshift bomb shelter watch performers who came to do a puppet show in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Credit:Chris McGrath/GETTY IMAGES
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People board an evacuation train to Lviv in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Credit:Chris McGrath/GETTY IMAGES
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Injured civilians sit in an ambulance before being taken to a hospital after a Russian attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine.Credit:Felipe Dana/AP
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Ukrainian servicemen patrol the area of a shelled community center in Irpin, Ukraine.Credit:Anastasia Vlasova/GETTY IMAGES
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A woman blows a kiss to a loved one from the window of an evacuation train bound for Lviv in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Credit:Chris McGrath/GETTY IMAGES
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Firefighters work to extinguish multiple fires after a Russian attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Credit:Felipe Dana/AP
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A mother hugs her daughter as they wait for a bus to flee from Sloviansk city, in Donetsk district, to travel to Rivne , western Ukraine.Credit:PETROS GIANNAKOURIS/AP
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Members of the Ukrainian military walk amid debris after a shopping center and surrounding buildings were hit by a Russian missile strike in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Credit:Chris McGrath/GETTY IMAGES
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An elderly local resident stands behind a destroyed part of the Illich Iron & Steel Works Metallurgical Plant, the second largest metallurgical enterprise in Ukraine, in an area controlled by Russian-backed separatist forces in Mariupol, Ukraine.Credit:Alexei Alexandrov/AP
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A local resident looks at a damaged during a heavy fighting apartment building near the Illich Iron & Steel Works Metallurgical Plant, the second largest metallurgical enterprise in Ukraine, in an area controlled by Russian-backed separatist forces in Mariupol, Ukraine.Credit:Alexei Alexandrov/AP
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Galyna Bondar, mourns next to the grave of her son Oleksandr, 32, after burying him at the cemetery in Bucha, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine.Credit:RODRIGO ABD/AP