Several weeks ago, Russian forces began intensifying artillery bombardment and ground advances in border villages across Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, and launching deadly missile attacks into the center of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city.
Thousands of civilians have already fled the area in an ongoing evacuation.
While firefighters in residential areas battle the blazes caused by Russian missiles, Ukrainian troops are responding to Russian advances along the front line with artillery and squads of small drones.
Bleeding from his ear with injuries from a blast visible on the face of a civilian as he is evacuated from Vovchansk, where Russian forces were advancing, on May 18, 2024.
A Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopter returns from a combat operation at the front line in the Kharkiv region on May 19, 2024.A Ukrainian serviceman with the Achilles battalion of the 92nd Assault Brigade operates a kamikaze drone over Russian positions in the Kharkiv region on May 12, 2024.A serviceman of Ukraine’s 92nd Assault Brigade stands guard near Vovchansk on May 19, 2024.Volunteers donate blood at Kharkiv’s Blood Center on May 15, 2024.A young woman holds her baby while waiting to be transferred to a safer location as Russian forces advanced in the Kharkiv region on May 20, 2024.A sign warns “Danger Mines!” among bushes in Kamianka, Kharkiv Oblast, on April 30, 2024.An aerial view of the graves of Ukrainian soldiers who have been killed while fighting Russian forces, seen in Kharkiv’s Cemetery Number 18 on May 21, 2024An aerial view of the bodies of two civilians beside a street in the city of Vovchansk on May 20, 2024A drone’s-eye view of the bodies of two Russian soldiers in a field in the Kharkiv region, photographed on May 16, 2024An aerial view of damage in the city of Vovchansk, after a Russian bombardment on May 17, 2024.A pilot with the Sharp Kartuza division prepares drones for combat flights on May 16, 2024.UKRAINIAN SOLDIER CATCHES SOME WINKSPilots with the “Sharp Kartuza” division of FPV kamikaze drones prepare drones for a combat flight on May 16, 2024, in the Kharkiv region, 8 kilometers from the border with Russia.People work to evacuate an animal shelter, which housed more than 120 animals (including dogs, cats, and goats), in Ruski Tyshky, Kharkiv region, on May 13, 2024.Injuries from a blast are visible on the face of a civilian as he is evacuated from Vovchansk, where Russian forces were advancing, on May 18, 2024.A pillar of smoke rises from behind a house following shelling by Russian troops, in Kharkiv, northeastern Ukraine, on May 17, 2024.
Bleeding from his ear with injuries from a blast visible on the face of a civilian as he is evacuated from Vovchansk, where Russian forces were advancing, on May 18, 2024.
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