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A New War Breaks Out In Europe, Here Are Some Images From The Front.

Images from Ukraine as the Russian Federation begins an unpro­voked war against its neighbor.

Firefighters work on a fire on a build­ing after bomb­ings on the east­ern Ukraine town of Chuguiv. Photograph: Aris Messinis/​AFP/​Getty Images.

A view shows the Ukrainian State Border Guard Service site dam­aged by shelling in Kyiv region
Photograph: State Border Guard Service/​Reuters.

A woman reacts as she waits for a train try­ing to leave Kyiv, Ukraine. Photograph: Emilio Morenatti/​AP.

Smoke and flame rise near a mil­i­tary build­ing after an appar­ent Russian strike in Kyiv, Ukraine. Big explo­sions were heard before dawn in Kyiv, Kharkiv and Odesa Photograph: Efrem Lukatsky/​AP.

Smoke ris­es from an air defense base in the after­math of an appar­ent Russian strike in Mariupol. Photograph: Evgeniy Maloletka/​AP.

In this image made from video pro­vid­ed by the Border Service of Ukraine, mil­i­tary vehi­cles pass a con­trol point at the Armyansk check­point at the Ukraine-Crimea bor­der. Photograph: AP.

People wait at a bus sta­tion to go to the west­ern parts of the coun­try in Kyiv, Ukraine. Photograph: Ümit Bektaş/​Reuters.

A cor­doned-off area around the remains of a shell in a street in Kyiv. Photograph: Sergei Supinsky/​AFP/​Getty.

Ukrainian fire­fight­ers try to extin­guish a fire after an airstrike hit an apart­ment com­plex in Chuhuiv, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine
Photograph: Wolfgang Schwan/​Anadolu Agency/​Getty.

Fire is seen com­ing out of a mil­i­tary instal­la­tion near the air­port in Mariupol, east­ern Ukraine. Photograph: Carlos Barría/​Reuters.

A flame is seen from an area near the Dnieper River in Kyiv. Photograph: Mary Ostrovska/​AP.

Russian mil­i­tary tanks and armored vehi­cles advance in Donetsk. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/​Getty Images.

Young women hold their mobile phones as they take refuge in a metro sta­tion in Kyiv. Photograph: Daniel Leal/​AFP/​Getty

Kyiv inhab­i­tants leave the city after pre-offen­sive mis­sile strikes by the Russian and Belarus armed forces. Photograph: Pierre Crom/​Getty.

A wound­ed woman is seen as airstrikes dam­age an apart­ment com­plex out­side of Kharkiv. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/​Getty.

Police offi­cers inspect the remains of a mis­sile that fell in a Kyiv street. Photograph: Valentyn Ogirenko/​Reuters.

Russians in Moscow watch a tele­vised address by Vladimir Putin about autho­riz­ing a mil­i­tary oper­a­tion in the Ukrainian Donbas region. He announced the aim is to ‘demil­i­tarise and denaz­i­fy Ukraine, as well as bring to jus­tice those who com­mit­ted numer­ous bloody crimes against civil­ians’ Photograph: Sergei Ilnitsky/​EPA.

People take shel­ter in a sub­way sta­tion in Kyiv Photograph: Valentyn Ogirenko/​Reuters.

The Ukrainian pres­i­dent, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, address­es the nation in Kyiv. He declared mar­tial law, say­ing Russia has tar­get­ed Ukraine’s mil­i­tary infra­struc­ture and urged Ukrainians to stay home and not pan­ic Photograph: Efrem Lukatsky/​AP.

People walk in a metro sta­tion in Kyiv as air-raid sirens ring out in down­town Kyiv, Photograph: Daniel Leal/​AFP/​Getty.

Black smoke ris­es from a mil­i­tary air­port in Chuguyev near Kharkiv. Photograph: Aris Messinis/​AFP/​Getty.

People in cars queue to leave the city of Mariupol in east­ern Ukraine. Photograph: Carlos Barría/​Reuters.

Tanks move into the city after Vladimir Putin autho­rized a mil­i­tary oper­a­tion in Mariupol, east­ern Ukraine. Photograph: Carlos Barría/​Reuters

A man sits outside his destroyed building after bombings on the eastern Ukraine town of Chuhuiv on 24 February 2022
A man sits out­side a destroyed build­ing in Chuhuiv, fol­low­ing bombings. 

A rocket embedded in a road after recent shelling on the northern outskirts of Kharkiv on 24 February 2022
People wait in a traf­fic jam as they attempt to leave the city of Kharkiv. 

People wait for buses at a bus station as they attempt to evacuate the city on February 24, 2022 in Kyiv, Ukraine