Overnight, Russian President Putin’s forces began attacking Ukraine’s capital city, Kyiv. In yesterday’s photo gallery, we saw the initial images of war, from armored vehicles to devastated homes. Today we see the impact of soldiers on a city and how wars are fought on many fronts – including the propaganda front.
As ever, it is the human cost that is ignored in favor of discussing oil prices and global markets. But as people flee their homeland with their children in tow, unsure of whether they will have either home or family to return to, it is these images that remind us most of the reality of armed conflict.
People take shelter in a metro station in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Photo by VIACHESLAV RATYNSKYI/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
POLAND – Refugees from Ukraine are seen after leaving the first train from Kiev (Photo by Attila Husejnow/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
People take shelter in metro stations (Photo by Konstantin Melnitskiy/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
People stand in a line to a local drug store, Kyiv, capital of Ukraine (Photo credit should read Hennadii Minchenko/ Ukrinform/Future Publishing via Getty Images)
Refugees from Ukraine spend their first night in Poland at the train station in Przemysl. (Photo by Attila Husejnow/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
KYIV, UKRAINE (Photo by Ukraine Emergency Ministry / Handout/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
(Photo by Wolfgang Schwan/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Defend your Motherland! This is a pro-Russian poster, seen in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine. (Photo by Nikolai TrishinTASS via Getty Images)
