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PHOTO GALLERY: Russia invades - The battle for Ukraine




People hug while waiting for a Kiev bound train in Kostiantynivka, the Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Thursday, Feb. 24, 2022. AP

Onlookers walk past the bodies of Russian servicemen wearing Ukranian service uniform lying beside and inside a vehicle after they were shot as part of a raiding party during a skirmish in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv on February 25, 2022. AFP

Anti-war protesters hold placards during a demonstration against Russia s invasion of Ukraine in front of the NATO headquarters in Brussels on February 25, 2022. AFP

Vlad, 28, right, hands his son Danya, 2, to his mother Tatiana, 26, as they say goodbye before she leaves Kiev, at a bus station, Ukraine, Thursday, Feb. 24, 2022. Russia launched a wide-ranging attack on Ukraine on Thursday, hitting cities and bases with airstrikes or shelling, as civilians piled into trains and cars to flee. AP

People waiting for a Kiev bound train walk on a platform in Kramatorsk, the Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Thursday, Feb. 24, 2022. Russia launched a wide-ranging attack on Ukraine on Thursday, hitting cities and bases with airstrikes or shelling, as civilians piled into trains and cars to flee. AP

A woman carries a child while walking on a platform to board a Kiev bound train in Kostiantynivka, the Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Thursday, Feb. 24, 2022. AP

A Ukrainian policeman walks on a platform backdropped by people waiting for a Kiev bound train in Kostiantynivka, the Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Thursday, Feb. 24, 2022. AP

People attend a pro-Ukraine protest rally in front of the Hofburg palace in Vienna, Austria, Friday, Feb. 25, 2022 the day after Russian troops have launched their anticipated attack on Ukraine. AP

A protester draws a chalk heart in the colours of the Ukrainian flag on the pavement outside the Russian Consulate in Edinburgh on February 25, 2022 as protests take place against Russia s invasion of Ukraine. AFP

Demonstrators hold placards reading People die, Scholz watches (2ndR), No SWIFT for Russia and Turn off SWIFT (R) during a protest against Russia s invasion of the Ukraine on February 25, 2022 in front of the Chancellery in Berlin. AFP

This photograph shows the wreckage of a vehicle on a road in the north of Kyiv on February 25, 2022, after an armoured Russian vehicle crashed into it, injuring the man inside. AFP

A woman walks as Ukrainian servicemen prepare to pick up the body of an Ukrainian man who was shot when a Russian armoured vehicle drove past him, on a sidewalk in the north of Kyiv on February 25, 2022. AFP

People walk by smoldering destroyed Russian military vehicles on the outskirts of Kharkiv, Ukraine, Friday, Feb. 25, 2022. AP

A woman with a backpack walks in front of a damaged residential building at Koshytsa Street, a suburb of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, where a military shell allegedly hit, on February 25, 2022. AFP

Firefighters extinguish a blaze at a damaged residential building at Koshytsa Street, a suburb of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, early on February 25, 2022. Invading Russian forces pressed deep into Ukraine as deadly battles reached the outskirts of Kyiv, with explosions heard in the capital early Friday that the besieged government described as horrific rocket strikes . AFP

A damaged car is seen from a hole of a damaged apartment building following a rocket attack on the city of Mariupol, Ukraine, Friday, Feb. 25, 2022. AP

Ukrainian servicemen ride on tanks towards the front line with Russian forces in the Lugansk region of Ukraine on February 25, 2022. AFP

Volunteers, holding AK-47 rifles, protect a main road leading into Kyiv on February 25, 2022. AFP

Servicemen ride atop a Russian armored vehicle in Armyansk, Crimea, on February 25, 2022. AFP