Photographers with Associated Press have captured horrifying and inspiring images since Putin’s Russia commenced war against Ukraine on Thursday, Feb. 24. Here is a sampling of those pictures from March 4 to March 11:
Saving the Lives of Mother and Child
Ukrainian emergency employees and volunteers carry an injured pregnant woman from the damaged by shelling maternity hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 9, 2022. A Russian attack has severely damaged a maternity hospital in the besieged port city of Mariupol, Ukrainian officials say. (AP/ Evgeniy Maloletka)
A Child’s First Breaths Come During War
Mariana Vishegirskaya lies in a hospital bed after giving birth to her daughter, Veronika, held by her husband, Yuri, in Mariupol, Ukraine, Friday, March 11, 2022. Vishegirskaya survived the Russian airstrike on a children’s and maternity hospital in Mariupol. (AP/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Mariupol Under Siege
An explosion is seen in an apartment building after a Russian army tank fires in Mariupol, Ukraine, Friday, March 11, 2022. (AP/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Stop the War Is Shouted Around the World
Protesters hold banners during a rally against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Friday, March 11, 2022, in Tokyo. (AP/Eugene Hoshiko)
Refugees Await the Budapest Train
People, who have fled from Ukraine, wait to board a train traveling to Budapest at the train station in Zahony, Hungary, Monday, March 7, 2022. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has set off the largest mass migration in Europe in decades, with more than 2.5 million people having crossed from Ukraine into neighboring countries. (AP/Darko Vojinovic)
Time of the Strong
A Ukrainian soldier stands guard at a checkpoint on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, March 7, 2022. Russia announced yet another cease-fire and a handful of humanitarian corridors to allow civilians to flee Ukraine. Previous such measures have fallen apart and Moscow’s armed forces continued to pummel some Ukrainian cities with rockets Monday. (AP/Emilio Morenatti)
A Treacherous Path to Safety
People cross an improvised path under a destroyed bridge while fleeing the town of Irpin, Ukraine, Sunday, March 6, 2022. In Irpin, near Kyiv, a sea of people on foot and even in wheelbarrows trudged over the remains of a destroyed bridge to cross a river and leave the city. (AP/Oleksandr Ratushniak)
Ukrainians Seek Sanctuary Across the Romanian Border
A firefighter holds the baby of a refugee fleeing the conflict from neighboring Ukraine at the Romanian-Ukrainian border, in Siret, Romania, Monday, March 7, 2022. (AP/Andreea Alexandru)
Remains of a Downed Russian Plane
A Ukrainian serviceman walks past the vertical tail fin of a Russian Su-34 bomber lying in a damaged building in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 8, 2022. (AP/Andrew Marienko)
Braving the Cold to Escape the Russian War Machine
An elderly woman is coated in snow as she sits in a wheelchair after being evacuated from Irpin, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 8, 2022. Demands for ways to safely evacuate civilians have surged along with intensifying shelling by Russian forces, who have made significant advances in southern Ukraine but stalled in some other regions. Efforts to put in place cease-fires along humanitarian corridors have repeatedly failed amid Russian shelling. (AP/Vadim Ghirda)
Anti-Tank Weapon Is Ukrainian Solder’s Best Friend
Ukrainian Territorial Defence Forces members train to use an NLAW anti-tank weapon on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 9, 2022. Authorities announced a new ceasefire on Wednesday to allow civilians to escape from towns around the capital, Kyiv, as well as the southern cities of Mariupol, Enerhodar and Volnovakha, Izyum in the east, and Sumy in the northeast. Previous attempts to establish safe evacuation corridors have largely failed due to attacks by Russian forces. (AP/Efrem Lukatsky)
A Final Farewell
Relatives and friends mourn the body of senior police sergeant Roman Rushchyshyn in the village of Soposhyn, outskirts of Lviv, western Ukraine, Thursday, March 10, 2022, in Lviv. Rushchyshyn, a member of the Lviv Special Police Patrol Battalion, was killed in the Luhansk Region. Temporary cease-fires to allow evacuations and humanitarian aid have repeatedly faltered, with Ukraine accusing Russia of continuing its bombardments. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Red Cross to the Rescue
A Red Cross worker carries an elderly woman during evacuation in Irpin, some 25 km (16 miles) northwest of Kyiv, Friday, March 11, 2022. Kyiv northwest suburbs such as Irpin and Bucha have been enduring Russian shellfire and bombardments for over a week prompting residents to leave their homes. (AP/Efrem Lukatsky)
Russian Shelling on Residential Mariupol
A Ukrainian serviceman takes a photograph of a damaged church after shelling in a residential district in Mariupol, Ukraine, Thursday, March 10, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
A Long Embrace Before He Goes
A Ukrainian Territorial Defence Forces member hugs a resident who leaves his hometown following Russian artillery shelling in Irpin, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 9, 2022. (AP/Oleksandr Ratushniak)
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