With Russian President Vladimir Putin launching a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, startling images coming from the region display more than just military vehicles and soldiers, they show the human cost of such a war. As civilians flee cities, and families are forced to leave the devastated buildings they once called home, it is through pictures that we can best see the human tragedy unfold.
An armoured vehicle passes a police post in the town of Armyansk, northern Crimea. Early on February 24. (Photo by Sergei MalgavkoTASS via Getty Images)
A column of armoured vehicles passes a police post in the town of Armyansk. (Photo by Sergei MalgavkoTASS via Getty Images)
An armoured vehicle moves across the town of Armyansk, northern Crimea. (Photo by Sergei MalgavkoTASS via Getty Images)
Ukrainian military and civilians prepare for conflict. (Photo credit should read SerhiiHudak/ Ukrinform/Future Publishing via Getty Images)
Ahead of the invasion, Ukrainian civilians were trained to act as a fighting force. (Photo credit should read Vyacheslav Madiyevskyy/ Ukrinform/Future Publishing via Getty Images)
People line up to withdraw money from ATMs in Kramatorsk, Ukraine. (Photo by Aytac Unal/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
People queue outside a bank in the Donetsk region under the control of pro-Russian separatists, on February 24, 2022. (Photo by Stringer/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
A wounded woman is seen after an airstrike damaged an apartment complex in city of Chuhuiv, Kharkiv Oblast. (Photo by Wolfgang Schwan/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Vehicles in Kramatorsk, located in Donetsk oblast, Donbass region, rush to fill up before supplies run short.(Photo By Diego Herrera/Europa Press via Getty Images)
Ukrainian firefighters arrive to rescue civilians after an airstrike hit an apartment complex in Chuhuiv, Kharkiv Oblast. (Photo by Wolfgang Schwan/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Ukrainian firefighters try to extinguish a fire after an airstrike hit an apartment complex in Chuhuiv, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine on February 24, 2022. (Photo by Wolfgang Schwan/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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