Russian war crimes in photos
Mariupol
Mstyslav Chernov
Mariupol, Ukraine - March 7, 2022
Body covered by a tarp, lying in a street.
Kharkiv
Philip Cheung
Kharkiv, Ukraine - March 25, 2022
Civilian man badly burnt in Russian shelling of Kharkiv.
Kharkiv
Maxim Dondyuk
Kharkiv, Ukraine - March 17, 2022
Emergency workers tackling a fire at Kharkiv’s Barabashovo, the largest market in Eastern Europe. The fire has been caused by Russian artillery shelling attack.
Kharkiv
Maxim Dondyuk
Kharkiv, Ukraine - March 17, 2022
Emergency workers tackling a fire at Kharkiv’s Barabashovo, the largest market in Eastern Europe. The fire has been caused by Russian artillery shelling attack.
Kharkiv
Maxim Dondyuk
Kharkiv, Ukraine - March 17, 2022
Emergency workers tackling a fire at Kharkiv’s Barabashovo, the largest market in Eastern Europe. The fire has been caused by Russian artillery shelling attack.
Kharkiv
Mstyslav Chernov
Kharkiv, Ukraine - April 11, 2022
Emergency workers tackling a fire in a house after a Russian attack.
Mariupol
Mstyslav Chernov
Mariupol, Ukraine - March 9, 2022
Burial of the killed in a mass grave on the outskirts of Mariupol. Due to heavy shelling by Russian forces, this is the only way to bury the dead in the city.
Kharkiv
Philip Cheung
Kharkiv, Ukraine - March 25, 2022
Severed hand lying on the ground after a Russian shelling hit a post office where civilians were waiting in line to get humanitarian aid. Six people were killed in the attack and 15 more injured.
Kharkiv
Philip Cheung
Kharkiv, Ukraine - March 26, 2022
(L-R) Vlada, 13, is comforted by her friend Ilona, 33, at a metro station that has been used as a bomb shelter since the February 24 Russian invasion.
Kharkiv
Philip Cheung
Kharkiv, Ukraine - March 25, 2022
Blood trail left by a victim's body outside of a metro station after a Russian missile strike killed six civilians and injured 15 more. They were waiting in line for humanitarian aid.
Kharkiv
Philip Cheung
Kharkiv, Ukraine - March 25, 2022
The aftermath of a Russian shelling of the city’s commercial area.
Mariupol
Mstyslav Chernov
Medical worker walking through the hall of a maternity hospital damaged in a shelling attack. Associated Press reporters who stayed in blockaded Mariupol since the first days of the war, have documented this attack on the hospital and seen the victims and damage made first-hand. They filmed and photographed pregnant women in bloodstained clothes fleeing the destroyed maternity ward, shouting doctors and crying children.
Kramatorsk
Yevhenii Zavhorodnii
Kramatorsk, Ukraine - April 22, 2022
School destroyed by a Russian rocket on April 5, 2022
Borodyanka
Petro Sazonov
Borodyanka, Ukraine - May 5, 2022
Kyiv
Maxim Dondyuk
Kyiv, Ukraine - 28.02.2022
The first child injured in Kyiv bombings by Russia. The 6 years old boy was in a car together with his father, mother and sister when the shelling that killed his parents and sister began. The boy, badly wounded, has been taken to an intensive care unit. His rescuers were unable to find any documents to identify him, so initially, the boy was referred to as the "Unknown # 1".
Kyiv
Maxim Dondyuk
Kyiv, Ukraine - 02.03.2022
Kyiv maternity hospital had to move to the basement of their building after the nearby house was destroyed by shelling. 02.03.2022, Kyiv
Bucha
Efrem Lukatsky
Bucha, Kyiv region, Ukraine - April 8, 2022
Relatives cry at a mass grave site containing bodies of civilians killed during the Russian occupation of Bucha. The international organization established to identify the dead and missing persons after the 1990s Balkan conflicts is preparing to send a team of forensic experts to Ukraine, as the death toll keeps mounting more than six weeks into the war.
Blystavycia
Mikhail Palinchak
Blystavycia, Kyiv region, Ukraine - April 22, 2022
Bucha
Maxim Dondyuk
Bucha, Ukraine - 05.04.2022
Mass grave of civilians in the town of Bucha. 05.04.2022
Chernihiv
Maxim Dondyuk
Chernihiv - 10.04.2022
Because of intense shelling and air strikes, people have had to bury the killed in a hurry, placing the bodies in long ditches and putting signs with the names over the graves. When the hostilities were over and the region was liberated from the Russian troops, people returning to the city were trying to find their kin on this makeshift cemetery.
Bucha
Maxim Dondyuk
Bucha, Kyiv region - 06.04.2022
Police and funeral home employees identifying and registering 58 civilians killed in the town of Bucha before moving the bodies to a mortuary.
Bucha
Maxim Dondyuk
Bucha, Kyiv region - 06.04.2022
Police and funeral home employees identifying and registering 58 civilians killed in the town of Bucha before moving the bodies to a mortuary.
Irpin
Petro Sazonov
Irpin, Kyiv region, Ukraine
Irpin
Mikhail Palinchak
Irpin, Kyiv region, Ukraine - May 1, 2022
Bucha
Mstyslav Chernov
Bucha, Kyiv region, Ukraine - April 6, 2022
Mariupol
Mstyslav Chernov
Mariupol, Ukraine - February 27, 2022
Doctors try to resuscitate a girl fatally wounded in Russian shelling.
Irpin
Maxim Dondyuk
Irpin, Kyiv region, Ukraine - 05.03.2022
Evacuation of civilians from the town of Irpin via a destroyed bridge. The bridge has been destroyed by the Armed Forces of Ukraine to prevent the enemy from reaching Kyiv. On that day, women, children and the elderly were to be evacuated from the town by trains at 10 AM, but the enemy has damaged the rail tracks. People were asked to move to another place from which they were picked up by buses to be taken to the Kyiv railway station.
Irpin
Maxim Dondyuk
Irpin, Kyiv region, Ukraine - 06.03.2022
Civilians trying to get to safety from shelling. During the evacuation of civilians from the town of Irpin, the Russian troops launched a mortar and artillery attack on them.
Irpin
Maxim Dondyuk
Irpin, Kyiv region, Ukraine - 06.03.2022
Bodies of civilians killed during the evacuation from the town of Irpin. During the evacuation of the civilians, Russian troops launched a mortar and artillery attack on them.
Kyiv
Maxim Dondyuk
Pozniaky district, Kyiv, Ukraine
Apartment building destroyed by Russian rocket.
Irpin
Maxim Dondyuk
Irpin, Kyiv region, Ukraine - 06.03.2022
Evacuation of civilians from the town of Irpin via a destroyed bridge. The bridge has been destroyed by the Armed Forces of Ukraine to prevent the enemy from reaching Kyiv. On that day, women, children and the elderly were to be evacuated from the town by trains at 10 AM, but the enemy has damaged the rail tracks. People were asked to move to another place from which they were picked up by buses to be taken to the Kyiv railway station.
Okhtyrka
Pavel Dorogoy
Okhtyrka, Sumy region, Ukraine - March 2022
Local Palace of Culture.
Kharkiv
Maxim Dondyuk
Kharkiv, Ukraine - 18.03.2022
Buildings of the National Academy for Public Administration under the President of Ukraine, destroyed by an air strike.
Mariupol
Mstyslav Chernov
Mariupol, Ukraine - February 27, 2022
Lifeless body of a girl killed in a shelling of a residential area, laid on a patient trolley in a ward of the city hospital.
Mariupol
Mstyslav Chernov
Serhii, father of teenage Ilya, crying over his son's lifeless body laid on a stretcher in award of a maternity centre turned into a military hospital.
Kharkiv
Maxim Dondyuk
Kharkiv, Ukraine - March 26,.2022
Valeriy, 27 years old, had to have his both legs amputated due to an injury sustained in a rocket attack on his home.