The plan to evacuate around 215,000 people from the cities of Mariupol in the southeast and from Volnovakha in the east during an agreed ceasefire came to an abrupt end on Saturday morning.
Within hours of it being declared to allow innocent civilians to flee along humanitarian corridors, there were repeated claims the Russians were not honouring the agreement.
Officials from Ukraine’s Mariupol city reported Russian shelling along the length of one route approved as a means for women, children and the elderly to escape the impending bombardment.
Here are the most compelling images as the Russian invasion continues:
Saturday, March 5, 2022
Ukrainian soldiers detain a man they think is a Russian spy in the city of Irpin, northwest of Kyiv.
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A father waves goodbye to his child at Zaporizhia Station.
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Women and children board a train to Lviv from Zaporizhia Station, leaving the men behind.
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The Territorial Defence Force build defensive fortifications akin to First World War trenches, east of Ternopil, western Ukraine.
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People lie on the floor of a hospital during shelling by Russian forces in Mariupol, Ukraine.
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Vladimir Putin meets the flight crew of Russian airlines on Saturday. During his visit he warned the West that he would regard any no-fly zone over Ukraine as an act of war.
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Boy who fled Ukraine rests on a bag after arriving on a train from Poland shortly after midnight at Hauptbahnhof main railway station in Berlin, Germany.
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A man holding dog food walks in front of a residential building damaged by shelling in the city of Chernihiv on March 4.
Ukrainian forces shoots down a Russian attack helicopter.
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Ukrainian soldiers help a fleeing family crossing the Irpin river.
Credit: AP/Emilio Morenatti
Evacuees board a train to Poland, at the Lviv train station, western Ukraine.
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A family crosses the railway trucks at Lviv train station, western Ukraine.
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A man gestures in front of an evacuation train at Kyiv central train station.
Credit: AFP/SERGEI CHUZAVKOV
Friday, March 4, 2022
A dog stands between destroyed Russian armoured vehicles in the city of Bucha, west of Kyiv.
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Iodine tablets are distributed to the people of Marhanets Town after the Nuclear power station at Zaporizhia was attacked.
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Residents of the suburb of Irpin in west Kyiv try to leave the area after several days of bombardment.
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A woman reacts as she stands in front of a house burning after being shelled in the city of Irpin.
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Ukrainian soldiers warm themselves by a fire in the Luhansk region.
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People remove personal belongings from a burning house that was shelled in the city of Irpin, outside Kyiv.
Children look out the window of an unheated Lviv-bound train, in Kyiv.
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A girl cries among refugees at Lviv Central railway station.
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Ukrainian service members walk near a school building destroyed by shelling, as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continues, in Zhytomyr.
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Zlata, three, is fleeing the conflict from neighbouring Ukraine with her face painted in the colours of the Ukrainian flag in Siret, Romania.
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Russian forces shelled Europe’s largest nuclear plant early on Friday.
Credit: Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant
A member of the Territorial Defence Forces stands guard at a checkpoint in Kyiv, as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continues.
Credit: REUTERS/MYKOLA TYMCHENKO
Refugee Katya Kuznetsove from Kyiv finds temporary accommodation on the stage of the Les Kurbos theatre in Lviv.
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Ukrainian artillerymen keep position in the Luhansk region.
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Mariupol has been bombarded by near constant shelling, which has knocked out power and most phone service and raised the prospect of food and water shortages for hundreds of thousands of people.
Earlier, Serhiy Orlov, the city’s deputy mayor, told the BBC: “The Russians are continuing to bomb us and use artillery… It is crazy.”
Thursday, March 3, 2022
An aerial view shows a residential building destroyed by shelling, as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continues, in the settlement of Borodyanka in the Kyiv region.
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Locals carry a coffin as the small city of Borodyanka was hit by shelling in near Kyiv
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Ukrainian artillerymen keep position in the Luhansk region.
Credit: AFP/ANATOLII STEPANOV
A couple say farewell before she boards a train bound for Lviv at Kyiv station
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Thousands of people gather at the Lviv-Holovnyi train station in Western Ukraine in an attempt to leave the country
A displaced Ukrainian en route to Poland at the Lviv-Holovnyi railway station in Lviv.
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Serhii, father of teenager Iliya, cries on his son’s lifeless body lying on a stretcher at a maternity hospital converted into a medical ward in Mariupol.
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General view of damages after the shelling of buildings in downtown Kharkiv.
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A woman walks with a child wrapped in a blanket as she waits at a refugee crossing in Medyka, Poland.
Credit: AP/Markus Schreiber
Ukrainian refugees register for a bus that will take them to Germany in Przemysl, Poland.
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French teacher Pjotr Vyerko, 81, stands in the bedroom of his house which was damaged by the shockwaves of a Russian airstrike in Gorenka, outside the capital Kyiv.
Credit: AP/Vadim Ghirda
A soldier holds a cat in front of an educational institute that was hit by Russian munitions in Vasylkiv.
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Wednesday, March 2, 2022
A civilian trains to throw Molotov cocktails to defend the city in Zhytomyr.
Credit: REUTERS/Viacheslav Ratynskyi
A woman cries by houses damaged in a Russian airstrike, in Gorenka, outside Kyiv.
Credit: AP/Vadim Ghirda
A woman carries her belongings across a destroyed bridge as she flees, in the outskirts of Kyiv.
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Police officers remove the body of a passerby killed in yesterday’s airstrike that hit Kyiv’s main television tower.
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Civilians cross a river on a blown up bridge on Kyiv’s northern front.
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Firefighters extinguish a blaze in the Kharkiv regional police department building, which was hit by recent shelling.
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A satellite image by Planet Labs PBC on Wednesday morning appears to show Russian aircraft stationed at Luninets airbase in Belarus, about 31 miles north of the Ukrainian border.
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Tuesday, March 1, 2022
The Russian military convoy seen north of Kyiv stretches back from near Antonov airport in the south of the city to the northern-end of the convoy near Prybirsk (A distance along the road of approximately 40 miles)
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Members of a Ukrainian civil defense unit pass new assault rifles to the opposite side of a blown up bridge on Kyiv’s northern front.
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A blast is seen…
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…then smoke rises from the main TV tower in Kyiv following a Russian missile attack on the Ukrainian capital’s television centre.
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Thousands of volunteers have been helping to make camouflage netting at the Ivanychuk Library in Lviv. As many as 20 nets a day are completed, which are then rolled up before shipping off to be used to cover Ukrainian military equipment.
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Pro-Russian separatists are seen next to an abandoned tank on a road between the separatist-controlled settlements of Mykolaivka and Buhas, as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continues in the Donetsk region.
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This billboard in Kharkiv reads: “Russian Warship – Go f— yourself!”
The view of military facility which was destroyed by recent shelling in the city of Brovary outside Kyiv on March 1
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A view shows the area near the regional administration building…
Credit: REUTERS/Vyacheslav Madiyevskyy
…as emergency personnel carry the body of a person killed there…
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…and people clear the rubble outside the damaged building in the aftermath of the missile attack.
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Newborn twin brothers sleep in a basement used as a bomb shelter at the Okhmadet children’s hospital in central Kyiv.
Credit: AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti
This video still shows a Russian airstrike on a building in Kharkiv.
An elderly Ukrainian woman shops in an almost empty grocery store in Kyiv. Ukrainians face a shortage of goods because of logistic problems amid the armed conflict with Russia.
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Israelis, who fled over the border from Ukraine to Romania, are welcomed home at Ben Gurion airport in Lod, near Tel Aviv on Tuesday.
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Monday, February 28, 2022
A refugee child fleeing from Ukraine makes a love heart with his hands while waiting for transport at Nyugati station, in Budapest, Hungary.
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A striking image from Kyiv on Monday shows an ambulance seen through the damaged window of a vehicle struck by bullets.
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Mothers and their newborns live underground while medical personnel continue to provide care at Okhmadyt Hospital in Kyiv.
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The inside of a destroyed Russian Tigr-M vehicle on a road in Kharkiv.
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“There is no ceasefire in Mariupol and there is no ceasefire all along the route. Our civilians are ready to escape but they cannot escape under shelling,” he added.
A security guard watches on as Ukraine’s Minister of Internal Affairs, Denys Monastyrskyi, speaks to press in Kyiv.
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It came as residents of the suburb of Irpin in west Kyiv desperately fled the area after several days of bombardment.
A satellite image shows Russian ground forces northeast of Ivankiv heading in the direction of Kyiv, Ukraine. The convoy was said to stretch 3.25 miles, containing fuel, logistics and armoured vehicles, including tanks, infantry fighting vehicles and self-propelled artillery.
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A view of an explosion after what are said to be Russian Buk missile system vehicles on a road are struck by a drone near Malyn, Zhytomyr Region, Ukraine on Feb 27.
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A mother holds her newborn baby, inside a basement used as a bomb shelter at the Okhmadet children’s hospital in central Kyiv.
Credit: AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti
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An injured child receives treatment after being wounded in a car during Russian attacks in Kyiv on Feb 28 . The six-year-old’s sibling was killed.
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Sunday, February 27, 2022
A Russian armoured vehicle burning in Kharkiv, Ukraine. The country still has full control over its northeastern city, the regional governor has said.
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Ukrainian forces fighting in the streets to the north of Kharkiv.
Credit: Julian Simmonds for the Telegraph
A Ukrainian soldier approaches a destroyed Russian vehicle in the north of Kharkiv.
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A Ukrainian Territorial Defence fighter examines the destroyed Russian Armoured personnel carrier after the firefight.
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Ukrainian Territorial Defence fighters test the automatic grenade launcher taken from a destroyed Russian infantry mobility vehicle GAZ Tigr after the fight in Kharkiv.
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A Russian T-72 tank burns after having been hit by an NLAW anti-tank missile just minutes before on the southeastern H-12 road into the city of Sumy.
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Volunteers make molotov cocktails at the Pravda Brewery in Lviv. The brewery has appealed for materials needed to construct the petrol bombs.
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A refugee boy who fled conflict cries at the railway station after arriving in Zahony, Hungary, on Sunday.
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A woman surveys the damage to a residential building in Donetsk after a shelling attack.
Credit: Sergei Bobylev
Ukrainian troops escort a man who they suspect is a Russian agent in Kyiv.
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Saturday, February 26, 2022
Anna Semyuk, 33, hugs her son, after a stranger took her children across the border and kept them safe while fleeing from Ukraine and arriving in Hungary.
Credit: REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo
A soldier’s helmet with a bullet hole near debris of burning military trucks, in a street in Kyiv.
Credit: AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky
Two people were killed after a Russian rocket left this apartment building in Kyiv with a huge hole.
Credit: Gleb Garanich
Welcome to the world baby Mia, born in an underground metro station as bombs fell on Kyiv.
Ukrainian soldiers in a defensive position to the north of Kharkiv.
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Ukrainian military volunteers receive arms at a weapons storage facility in Fastiv. Civilians have been taking up arms to defend their homeland against the Russian invaders.
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Friday, February 25, 2022
Ukrainian soldiers take positions in downtown Kyiv.
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Ukrainian citizens arrive by train in Poland on Friday. The train from Odessa was delayed by more than three hours as it was stopped by Ukrainian border staff at Mostyska, allowing only women and children to continue their journey, as conscription-aged men between the ages of 18 and 60 are temporarily banned from leaving the country.
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Natali Sevriukova pictured next to her apartment building following a rocket attack on the city of Kyiv in the early hours of Friday.
Credit: Emilio Morenatti
A Ukrainian firefighter walks between fragments of a downed aircraft seen in in Kyiv on Friday.
Credit: Oleksandr Ratushniak
Thursday, February 24, 2022
Helena, aged 53, was injured by shards of glass from a falling mirror after an airstrike struck an apartment complex outside of Kharkiv.
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A burning Russian armoured personnel carrier is seen near Hlukhiv in the Sumy area of Ukraine.
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A Ukrainian soldier lies hurt at the side of the road near Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine.
Credit: JULIAN SIMMONDS
Ukrainian military equipment on fire following an air strike outside Mariupol.
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