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Mariupol: Ukraine rejects capitulation deadline as Russia threatens to lift resistance

Women clean in a damaged building at the Vizar military-industrial complex in Vyshneve, Ukraine, on Friday, April 15. The site on the outskirts of Kyiv was hit by Russian strikes.

Firefighters are working in a burning building in Kharkiv, Ukraine, after a rocket attack near Kharkiv International Airport on Tuesday (April 12th).

Bereaved people reacted in Stebnik, Ukraine, during the funeral ceremony of Ukrainian serviceman Roman Tiaka. Tiaka was 47 years old.

Search and rescue teams are removing the wreckage after the Ukrainian army regained control of Borodyanka, Ukraine, on April 6.

People are waiting to board a train as they flee Kramatorsk on April 5th.

Anna Zhelisko touches the coffin of her grandson, Ukrainian soldier Dmitry Zhelisko, as she arrives for his funeral in Chervonohrad, Ukraine, on April 3. He died in battles with the Russian army near the city of Kharkov.

The bodies lie on a street in Bucha on April 2nd. Photos taken by Agence France-Presse show at least 20 civilian men killed.

A Ukrainian serviceman stands with a Russian soldier in handcuffs in Kharkiv on March 31.

A satellite image shows a shelled warehouse used by the Red Cross in Mariupol, Ukraine, on March 29.

A woman named Julia cries to her 6-year-old daughter, Veronica, as she speaks to the press in Brovary, Ukraine, on March 29.

An armored convoy of pro-Russian troops travels on the road leading to Mariupol on March 28.

Volunteer weaves a bulletproof vest in Zaporozhye, Ukraine, on March 28.

A woman lights a candle during a Sunday service at a monastery in Odessa on March 27.

A Ukrainian serviceman stands in a badly damaged building in Stoyanka, Ukraine, on March 27.

Orphans travel by train after fleeing the Russian-controlled city of Polohy, Ukraine, on March 26.

A man finds belongings from a burning shop after a Russian attack in Kharkov on March 25th.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addresses world leaders via video on March 24 at the NATO summit in Brussels, Belgium. Zelensky did not issue his usual request for a no-fly zone, but said Ukraine needed fighter jets, tanks and better air defenses.

A child holds a Ukrainian flag in front of a monument to Taras Shevchenko while members of the Ukrainian National Guard gang perform in Lviv, Ukraine, on March 24.

A firefighter sprayed water on a house destroyed by shelling in Kyiv on March 23.

Svetlana Ilyukhina examines the remains of her home in Kyiv after a Russian missile attack on March 23. “First there was smoke, then everything turned black,” she said.

Photos lie among the ruins of a house in Kyiv on March 23.

A woman cleans a room on March 21 in a building damaged by bombings in Kyiv.

The Retroville shopping center is visible in Kyiv after the Russian shelling on March 21.

People share dinner and sing “Happy Birthday” during a celebration in Kyiv on March 20. This studio space has become a bomb shelter for approximately 25 artists who volunteer to help the military effort.

Former Ukrainian MP Tetyana Chornovol, now an employee and operator of an anti-tank guided missile system, is examining a Russian tank she destroyed in a recent battle near Kyiv.

A Ukrainian serviceman stands among the rubble after a shelling of a residential area in Kyiv on March 18.

Staff members visit a child at a children’s hospital in Zaporizhia on March 18.

An elderly woman is being helped by police after she was rescued from an apartment that was affected by the March 15 shelling in Kyiv.

Firefighters are working to extinguish the flames in a residential building in Kyiv on March 15.

A woman walks past a damaged window to lay flowers at a makeshift memorial to victims in Donetsk, Ukraine, on March 15.

Ukrainian soldiers are hiding from incoming artillery fire in Irpen, Ukraine, on March 13.

A Ukrainian soldier inspects a destroyed government building in Kharkiv on March 13th.

A mother and son are resting in Lviv, Ukraine, while waiting to board a train to Poland on March 12.

A firefighter is working to put out the blaze after a chemical warehouse was reportedly hit by Russian shelling near Kalinovka, Ukraine, on March 8th.

Members of the Red Cross are helping people fleeing the Kiev suburb of Irpin on March 7.

Civilians seek protection in a bomb shelter in a basement in Kyiv on March 6.

Locals are helping clear the rubble of a home that was destroyed by an alleged Russian air strike in Marhalivka, Ukraine, on March 5th.

George Keburia bids farewell to his wife and children as they board a train in Odessa on March 5th. They were on their way to Lviv.

Ukrainians crowded under a destroyed bridge as they tried to escape across the Irpin River on the outskirts of Kyiv on March 5th.

People are taking personal belongings out of a burning house after the March 4 shooting in Irpen.

People crowded onto a platform as they tried to board a western train in Kyiv on March 4.

A bullet-riddled bus can be seen after an ambush in Kyiv on March 4.

People took shelter on the floor of a hospital during the March 4 shelling in Mariupol.

A member of the Ukrainian army gives instructions to civilians in Irpen on March 4. They were about to board an evacuation train to Kyiv.

A Ukrainian child dies in bed at a temporary refugee center in Zahoni, Hungary, on March 4th.

A Ukrainian soldier carries a baby across a destroyed bridge on the outskirts of Kyiv on March 3.

Residents reacted in front of a burning building after the March 3 shelling in Kharkiv.

A Ukrainian soldier, who is said to have been shot three times in the first days of the invasion, is in a hospital bed in Kyiv on March 3rd.

People form a human supply chain in Kyiv on March 3.

A cemetery worker digs graves for Ukrainian soldiers in Kyiv on March 3.

A mother takes care of her two young sons in the underground shelter of the maternity hospital in Kyiv on March 3. She gave birth the day before, and she and her husband have not yet decided on the names of the twins.

A member of the Territorial Defense Forces of Ukraine is sitting with a gun in Kyiv on March 2.

Paramedics are treating an elderly woman injured in a shelling before she was transferred to a hospital in Mariupol on March 2nd.

Residents of Zhytomyr, Ukraine, work in the remains of a residential building on March 2. The building was destroyed by shelling.

A member of the Territorial Defense Forces of Ukraine inspected the damage in the backyard of a house in Gorenka on March 2.

Ukrainka takes her children across the border in Siret, Romania, on March 2nd. Many Ukrainians are fleeing the country at a pace that could turn into “Europe’s biggest refugee crisis of the century,” the UN refugee agency said.

Militiamen set up anti-tank barricades in Kyiv on March 2nd.

People are waiting at the train station in Kyiv on March 2.

People take shelter at a metro station in Kyiv on March 2.

Ukrainian soldiers attend a liturgy at an Orthodox monastery in Kyiv on March 1.

Medical workers show her mother her newborn after she gave birth in a maternity hospital in Mariupol on March 1. The hospital is now also used as a medical ward and bomb shelter.

An administrative building is visible in Kharkov after the Russian shelling on March 1. Russian forces have stepped up bombing of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city.

Ukrainian emergency workers carry the body of a victim after a March 1 shelling of a town hall in Kharkiv.

A woman named Helen comforts her 8-year-old daughter Polina at the March 1 bomb shelter at a Kiev children’s hospital. The girl was in the hospital for treatment of encephalitis or inflammation of the brain.

Ukrainian refugees are trying to warm up at the Medica border crossing in Poland on March 1st.

Volunteers in Kyiv sign up to join Ukraine’s Territorial Defense Forces on February 28.

A member of the Territorial Defense Forces loaded rifle cartridges in Kyiv on February 28.

An evicted Ukrainian woman is rocking her child at a temporary shelter set up at a high school in Beregsurani, Hungary, on February 28.

Ukrainian forces have ordered a man to be shot down on February 28 as security measures are tightened amid Russian attacks in Kyiv.

Smoke rises over the Ukrainian city of Vasilkov, next to Kyiv on February 27. A fire in an oil depot was spotted raging at Vasilkov Air Base.

People are waiting on a platform inside the railway station in Lviv on February 27. Thousands of people at Lviv’s central station tried to board trains that would take them out of Ukraine.

Russian armored car burns after fighting in Kharkov on February 27. Street fighting erupted as Russian troops entered Ukraine’s second-largest city and urged residents to stay in shelters and not travel.

Locals prepare Molotov cocktails in Uzhhorod, Ukraine, on February 27th.

Cars line up on the road near Mostyska, Ukraine, as people try to flee to Poland on February 27.

Ukrainian troops in Kyiv escorted a prisoner on February 27 who was suspected of being a Russian agent.

Ukrainian servicemen take up position at Vasilkov Air Base near Kyiv on February 27th.

A woman sleeps on chairs on February 27 in the underground parking lot of a hotel in Kyiv, turned into a bomb shelter.

A residential building in Kyiv is visible after it was damaged by shelling on February 26. The exterior walls of several apartment blocks looked completely blown up, the interior blackened and the rubble hanging loose.

A police car patrolled the streets of Kyiv on February 26.

Following a national directive to complicate the invading Russian army’s attempts to orient itself, a road worker removed signs near Pisarivka, Ukraine, on February 26.

Ukrainian servicemen search for and collect unexploded ordnance after a battle in Kyiv on February 26.

The body of a Russian soldier lay next to a Russian car near Kharkiv on February 25.

Members of the Ukrainian National Guard take up positions in the center of Kyiv on February 25.

People are passing a residential building in Kyiv that was hit by an alleged Russian air strike on February 25th.

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