Today, on February 24, 2023, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine reaches its first year. A year of hardships, mourns, deaths, destruction, and many things that badly impact the life of Ukrainian, continuing.
On February 24, 2022, Vladimir Putin launches what he describes as a “special military operation”. Putin ordered tens of thousands of Russian troops into neighboring Ukraine from the north, east, and south. Russia’s heavy war machines diminished homes, hospitals, and schools, killing more than ten thousand people.
Dead bodies lie in the streets, in gardens, and houses. Ukrainians are often confined for hours in bomb shelters to protect themselves. While many have been in dire need of food and other aid. In Winter, the Russian troops attacked the power supply that left many houses and shelters without heat, and water.
People flee the city of Kharkiv, in Ukraine on 24 February, 2022. Image: Reuters.Bodies are placed into a mass grave on the outskirts of Mariupol, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)Ukrainian soldiers carry the coffin of Volodymyr Losev, 38, during his funeral in Zorya Truda in the Odesa region of Ukraine, Monday, May 16, 2022. The 38-year-old Ukrainian volunteer soldier was killed on May 7 when the military vehicle he was driving ran over a mine in eastern Ukraine. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)A man and child ride a bicycle as bodies of civilians lie in the street in the formerly Russian-occupied Kyiv suburb of Bucha, Ukraine, Saturday, April 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)An explosion erupts from an apartment building at 110 Mytropolytska Street, after a Russian army tank fired on it in Mariupol. [Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo]Stanislav says goodbye to his 2-year-old son, David, and wife, Anna, after they boarded a train that will take them to Lviv, from the station in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 3. 2022. Stanislav stayed to fight as his family sought refuge in a neighboring country. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)Natali Sevriukova is overcome with emotion as she stands outside her destroyed apartment building following a rocket attack in Kyiv, Ukraine. [Emilio Morenatti/AP Photo]Anastasia Ohrimenko, 26, is comforted by relatives as she cries next to the coffin of her husband, Yury Styglyuk, a Ukrainian serviceman who died in combat on August 24, in Maryinka, Donetsk, during his funeral in Bucha, Ukraine. [Emilio Morenatti/AP Photo]A woman reacts as she waits for a train trying to leave Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, Feb. 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)A view shows graves of killed Ukrainian defenders, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine. Resource : Unknown
