The beginning of the war in Ukraine

1. The beginning of the war in Ukraine

2. A person holding a cat sits next to a bus window as people go to western parts of the country after Russian President Vladimir Putin authorized a military operation in eastern Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine, February 24, 2022. REUTERS/Umit Bektas

3. Service members of the Ukrainian armed forces take position near the port of Mariupol, February 24, 2022. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

4. Cars drive towards the exit of the city in Kyiv, Ukraine, February 24, 2022. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko

5. People queue at an ATM in Mariupol, Ukraine, February 24, 2022. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

6. Demonstrators take part in an anti-war protest in front of the Russian embassy in Paris, France, February 24, 2022. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes

7. Police officers detain demonstrators during an anti-war protest, in Saint Petersburg, Russia, February 24, 2022. REUTERS/Anton Vaganov

8. A Ukrainian serviceman holds a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) launcher at fighting positions outside the city of Kharkiv, Ukraine, February 24, 2022. REUTERS/Maksim Levin

9. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's face can be seen on a TV as it broadcasts CNN from a top room inside the White House, in Washington, February 24, 2022. REUTERS/Leah Millis

10. People use electronic devices in an air raid shelter in Kyiv, Ukraine, February 24, 2022. REUTERS/Viacheslav Ratynskyi

11. Servicemen of the Ukrainian National Guard take positions in central Kyiv, Ukraine, February 25, 2022. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich

12. Children who crossed the Polish border with their mother to flee violence in Ukraine sit on a bus waiting for transportation to a train station, in Medyka, Poland, February 25, 2022. REUTERS/Bryan Woolston

13. A room of a damaged residential building is seen in Kyiv, Ukraine, February 25, 2022. REUTERS/Umit Bektas

14. Ukrainian Oksana sits in a bus as she arrives at the border crossing between Poland and Ukraine, in Medyka, Poland, February 25, 2022. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel

15. A view shows a desolate street in central Kyiv, Ukraine, February 25, 2022. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko

16. Drivers and passengers sit in cars in a traffic jam near a board displaying an image of Russian President Vladimir Putin in Saint Petersburg, Russia, February 25, 2022.

17. Members of the Territorial Defence Forces of Ukraine react after receiving weapons to defend the city of Kyiv, Ukraine, February 25, 2022. Mikhail Palinchak/Pool via REUTERS

18. A demonstrator holds a candle during a protest in solidarity with Ukraine, at Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz square in Berlin, Germany, February 25, 2022. REUTERS/Christian Mang

19. Smoke and flames rise over during shelling near Kyiv, Ukraine, February 26, 2022. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich

20. Ukrainian servicemen take positions at the military airbase Vasylkiv in the Kyiv region, Ukraine, February 26, 2022. REUTERS/Maksim Levin

21. A screengrab from drone footage shows cars forming a line that stretches some 35 km from the Shehyni border crossing to Poland as people try to flee, outside Mostyska, Ukraine, February 26, 2022. REUTERS/Natalie Thomas

22. A woman searches through donated clothes for useful items after she and her children fled the Russian invasion in Ukraine and crossed the border in Medyka, Poland, February 27, 2022. REUTERS/Bryan Woolston

23. A Ukrainian serviceman takes position at the military airbase Vasylkiv in the Kyiv region, Ukraine, February 27, 2022. REUTERS/Maksim Levin

24. A woman walks past bags in front of the Mayor's Office building during a curfew, in Kyiv, Ukraine, February 27, 2022. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

25. People stand in line to use an ATM money machine in Saint Petersburg, Russia, February 27, 2022. REUTERS/Anton Vaganov

26. Ukrainian service members are seen at a checkpoint in the city of Zhytomyr, Ukraine, February 27, 2022. REUTERS/Viacheslav Ratynskyi

27. Russian President Vladimir Putin visits the construction site of the National Space Agency on the premises of the Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Centre, in Moscow, Russia, February 27, 2022. Sputnik/Sergey Guneev/Kremlin via REUTERS

28. People sit on the railway after crossing the border between Poland and Ukraine, in Kroscienko, Poland, February 27, 2022. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel

29. A refugee fleeing from Ukraine arrives at Nyugati station, in Budapest, Hungary, February 28, 2022. REUTERS/Marton Monus

30. A person walks around the wreckage of an unidentified aircraft that crashed into a house in a residential area, in Kyiv, Ukraine, February 25, 2022. REUTERS/Umit Bektas

31. New members of the Ukrainian Territorial Defence Forces train with newly received weapons in Kyiv, Ukraine, February 28, 2022. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich

32. An interpreter works as Ukrainian Ambassador to the U.N. Sergiy Kyslytsya, who is seen on a screen, speaks during the 11th emergency special session of the 193-member U.N.

33. A view shows a destroyed bridge near the town of Bucha in the Kyiv region, Ukraine, February 28, 2022. REUTERS/Maksim Levin

34. A woman and a child wait in a bus after fleeing from Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in Siret, Romania, March 1, 2022. REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov

35. A blast is seen in the TV tower, in Kyiv, Ukraine, March 1, 2022. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

36. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg shakes hands with Commander of the Estonian Defence Forces lieutenant general Martin Herem during their visit to NATO enhanced Forward Presence battle group at Tapa military base, Estonia, March 1, 2022.

37. A local resident reacts to the sound of shell explosions in a bomb shelter in the separatist-controlled settlement of Mykolaivka (Nikolaevka) in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, March 1, 2022. REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko

38. Service members of pro-Russian troops in uniforms without insignia gather in the separatist-controlled settlement of Mykolaivka (Nikolaevka), in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, March 1, 2022. REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko

39. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy poses after an interview with Reuters in Kyiv, Ukraine, March 1, 2022. REUTERS/Umit Bektas

40. People wait to board an evacuation train from Kyiv to Lviv at Kyiv central train station, in Kyiv, Ukraine, March 1, 2022. REUTERS/Umit Bektas

41. A view shows destroyed military vehicles on a street in the town of Bucha in the Kyiv region, Ukraine, March 1, 2022. REUTERS/Serhii Nuzhnenko

42. A civilian trains to throw Molotov cocktails to defend the city, in Zhytomyr, Ukraine, March 1, 2022. REUTERS/Viacheslav Ratynskyi

43. A woman is consoled by a volunteer after fleeing from Russia's invasion of Ukraine, at the border crossing in Siret, Romania, March 2, 2022. REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov

44. A woman takes shelter at an underground metro station, in Kyiv, Ukraine, March 2, 2022. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

45. People attend an anti-war protest against the Russian invasion of Ukraine, in Munich, Germany, March 2, 2022. REUTERS/Andreas Gebert

46. Smoke rises from a burnt fitness center ruined after a blast targeted the TV tower, in Kyiv, Ukraine, March 2, 2022. REUTERS/Umit Bektas

47. People fleeing Russia's invasion of Ukraine attempt to enter a bus to Poland at a long distance bus terminal in Lviv, Ukraine, March 2, 2022. REUTERS/Thomas Peter

48. A woman fleeing Russia's invasion of Ukraine meets with her daughter near a refugee shelter, in Tiszabecs, Hungary, March 2, 2022. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo

49. Local residents work among remains of a residential building destroyed by shelling, in Zhytomyr, Ukraine, March 2, 2022. REUTERS/Viacheslav Ratynskyi

50. Soldiers from the U.S. Army’s 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team board a transport plane bound for eastern Europe on a deployment launched in response to the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, at Hunter Army Airfield, Georgia, March 2, 2022.