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Shattered lives and recovery in Ukraine war

By Associated Press

May 20, 2022

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Pieces of debris hang at the regional government headquarters of Mykolaiv, which was heavily damaged in a Russian attack, in Mykolaiv, Ukraine, Saturday, May 14.
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Ukrainian servicemen sit in a bus after they were evacuated from the besieged Mariupol's Azovstal steel plant, near a prison in Olyonivka, in territory under the government of the Donetsk People's Republic, eastern Ukraine, Tuesday, May 17.
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Russian soldiers play with a bear at the zoo in Mariupol, in territory under the government of the Donetsk People's Republic, eastern Ukraine, Wednesday, May 18. This photo was taken during a trip organized by the Russian Ministry of Defense.
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Iuliia Loseva cries over the coffin of her husband Volodymyr Losev, 38, during his funeral at a cemetery in Zorya Truda, Odesa region, Ukraine, Monday, May 16. Volodymyr Losev, a Ukrainian volunteer soldier, was killed on May 7 when the military vehicle he was driving ran over a mine in eastern Ukraine.
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Roman Pryhodchenko cries inside his house damaged by multiple shelling in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Sunday, May 15.
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Iryna Martsyniuk, 50, stands next to her heavily damaged house after a Russian bombing in Velyka Kostromka village, Ukraine, Thursday, May 19. Martsyniuk and her three young children were at home when the attack occurred in the village, a few kilometres from the front lines, but they all survived unharmed.
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Anna Loboda, 93, a former choir member who fled from Donetsk region, sings a song at Saint Michael monastery, in Odesa, Ukraine, Friday, May 13. Loboda, who has no family, has been living in the monastery's facility for the elderly since she was brought to Odesa by a neighbor before Russian forces took over her village.
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Ukrainian soldiers carry the coffin of Volodymyr Losev, 38, during his funeral in Zorya Truda, Odesa region, Ukraine, Monday, May 16. Volodymyr Losev, a Ukrainian volunteer soldier, was killed May 7 when the military vehicle he was driving ran over a mine in eastern Ukraine.
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A Ukrainian serviceman patrols during a reconnaissance mission in a recently retaken village on the outskirts of Kharkiv, east Ukraine, Saturday, May 14.
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Ukrainian National Guard soldiers inspect a basement during a reconnaissance mission in a recently retaken village on the outskirts of Kharkiv, east Ukraine, Saturday, May 14.
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Ukrainian serviceman Anton pets a cat in a basement previously used by Russian soldiers as a temporary base in the village of Malaya Rohan, Kharkiv region, east Ukraine, Monday, May 16.
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People gather to fill cans with water from a firefighters truck in Lysychansk, Luhansk region, Ukraine, Friday, May 13.
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Natasha Stepanenko, 43, sits on her bed with her daughter Yana, 11, at a public hospital in Lviv, Ukraine, Saturday, May 15. On April 8, a missile struck the train station in the eastern city of Kramatorsk where Natasha, Yana and her twin brother Yarik were planning to catch an evacuation train heading west and, they hoped, to safety. Yana lost two legs, one just above the ankle, the other higher up her shin. Natasha lost her left leg below the knee.
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Relatives and friends attend a funeral in Lviv, Ukraine, Saturday, May 14, of Melnyk Andriy, 23, a Ukrainian military serviceman who was killed in Kharkiv province.
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Rescuers carry the body of a civilian at a site of an apartment building destroyed by Russian shelling in Bakhmut, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Wednesday, May 18.
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Relatives react next to the body of Pankratov Oleksandr, 49, a Ukrainian military servicemen who was killed in Donetsk province, during his funeral in Lviv, Ukraine, Saturday, May 14.
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Zhenia, a member of the Ukrainian territorial defence force, guards a position near Kutuzivka, east Ukraine, Friday, May 13.
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Oleksiy Polyakov, right, and Roman Voitko check the remains of a destroyed Russian helicopter that lies in a field in the village of Malaya Rohan, Kharkiv region, Ukraine, Monday, May 16.
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Ukrainian servicemen accompanied by members of the foreign legion fire mortars at Russian positions in the eastern region of Kharkiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, May 17.
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A man pets a dog in the city subway of Kharkiv, in eastern Ukraine, on Thursday, May 19.
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Svyatoslav Vakarchuk sings during "The music of the resistance" concert at an art gallery in Kharkiv, east Ukraine, Saturday, May 14.
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Russian soldiers walk inside Ukraine's Azov Regiment base adorned with the unit's emblems in Yuriivka resort settlement on the coast of Azov Sea not far from Mariupol, in territory under the government of the Donetsk People's Republic, eastern Ukraine, Wednesday, May 18. The Azov Regiment, is part of Ukraine's National Guard. This photo was taken during a trip organized by the Russian Ministry of Defense.
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Yarik Stepanenko, 11, pushes his twin-sister Yana on a swing outside a public hospital in Lviv, Ukraine, Thursday, May 12. On April 8, a missile struck the train station in the eastern city of Kramatorsk where Yana, Yarik and their mother Natasha were planning to catch an evacuation train heading west and, they hoped, to safety. Yana lost two legs, one just above the ankle, the other higher up her shin. Natasha lost her left leg below the knee. Yarik, left at the station in the chaos of the attack, was uninjured and has been reunited with his mother and sister.
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Ukrainian servicemen load bodies of Russian soldiers into a railway refrigerator carriage in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, May 13.
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A man sweeps rubble next to a shopping and entertainment mall in Odessa, Ukraine, Friday, May 13, destroyed after Russian missiles strike on May 9.
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A Ukrainian man eats inside a basement used as an improvised bomb shelter in Kutuzivka, east Ukraine, Friday, May 13.
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Ukrainian servicemen walk in the forest near a recently retaken village, north of Kharkiv, east Ukraine, Sunday, May 15.

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