Gallery: Ukraine – Russia crisis, April 20th, 2022
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Russia ratcheted up its battle for control of Ukraine’s eastern industrial heartland this week, intensifying assaults on cities and towns along a front hundreds of kilometres long in what officials on both sides described as a new phase of the war.
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An apartment in Makariv with a hole blown through the wall by Russian tanks during the invasion.Credit:JOHN MOORE
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A Ukrainian Coast Guard vessel in the Sea of Azov was sunk during heavy fighting in an area controlled by Russian-backed separatist forces in Mariupol. Taking Mariupol would deprive Ukraine of a vital port and complete a land bridge between Russia and the Crimean Peninsula, seized from Ukraine from 2014.Credit:Alexei Alexandrov
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Three more graves prepared for the next funerals at the cemetery in Irpin.Credit:Emilio Morenatti
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Interior ministry sappers pile explosives in a hole to detonate them near a mine field after recent battles at the village of Moshchun, close to Kyiv.Credit:EFREM LUKATSKY
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A Donetsk People’s Republic trooper walks past a mosque damaged by Russian artillery.Credit:Alexei Alexandrov
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A Ukrainian soldier walks past an abandoned Russian tank after recent battles at the village of Moshchun, close to Kyiv.Credit:EFREM LUKATSKY
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Vitale Fedotov, 70, looks through his war-damaged home in Makarov. Fedotov said he was lying in bed when his home was struck by a bomb on March 7 during the Russian attack on the town.Credit:JOHN MOORE
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A kindergarten playground lies in ruins after a school was bombed by the Russians in Makariv. Local residents said a single bomb destroyed the Barvinok school at 5am on March 7. No one was reported killed.Credit:JOHN MOORE
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A Ukrainian flag flies over the ruins of Barvinok school in Makariv.Credit:JOHN MOORE
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A damaged frame with a photo of children lies in the bombed-out wreckage of Barvinok kindergarten in Makariv.Credit:Alexey Furman
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A woman passes a damaged building after a Russian bombardment in Kharkiv. Credit:Felipe Dana
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An injured worker has a smoke after his factory was hit by Russian bombing in Kramatorsk. Russian forces attacked along a broad front in eastern Ukraine on Tuesday as part of a full-scale ground offensive to take control of the country’s eastern industrial heartland.Credit:PETROS GIANNAKOURIS
Gallery: Ukraine – Russia crisis, April 20th, 2022
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