PHOTOS: Photos: Ukrainian forces put up fierce fight against Russians

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  • Ukrainian servicemen take cover in a shelter at fighting positions on the military airbase Vasylkiv in the Kyiv region, Ukraine, Feb. 26, 2022.

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  • A nurse checks a baby being treated at a pediatrics center after the unit was moved to the basement of the hospital which is being used as a bomb shelter, in Kyiv on Feb. 28, 2022.

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  • Local residents prepare Molotov cocktails to defend the city, after Russia launched a massive military operation against Ukraine, in Uzhhorod, Ukraine Feb. 27, 2022.

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  • Ukrainian troops escort a man they suspect is a Russian agent in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, Feb. 27, 2022. Ukrainian authorities say that Russian troops have entered Ukraine’s second-largest city of Kharkiv and fighting is underway in the streets.

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  • People take cover as an air-raid siren sounds near an apartment building damaged by recent shelling in Kyiv, Ukraine, Feb. 26, 2022.

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  • A residential building is seen damaged after a it was hit by a rocket in Kyiv, Ukraine, Feb. 26, 2022.

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  • Ukrainian tanks move on a road before an attack in Lugansk region in eastern Ukraine, Feb. 26, 2022.

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  • Ukrainian military volunteers receive weapons at a weapons storage facility in Fastiv, Ukraine, Feb. 25, 2022.

    Ukrainian military volunteers receive weapons at a weapons storage facility in Fastiv, Ukraine, Feb. 25, 2022.

    Ukrainian military volunteers receive weapons at a weapons storage facility in Fastiv, Ukraine, Feb. 25, 2022.

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  • The body of a school employee, who according to locals was killed by recent shelling, lies on the floor in the separatist-controlled town of Horlivka (Gorlovka) in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, Feb. 25, 2022.

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  • Ukrainian servicemen walk by a damaged vehicle at the site of a fighting with Russian troops, after Russia launched a massive military operation against Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Feb. 26, 2022.

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  • A building after it was reportedly struck by a Russian rocket in Kyiv, Ukraine, Feb. 26, 2022.

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  • Ukrainian refugees cry as they reunite at the Medyka border crossing, Poland, Feb. 26, 2022.

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  • The body of a Russian soldier lies near destroyed Russian vehicles the day after fighting with Ukrainian soldiers on a highway outside Kharkiv, Ukraine, Feb. 25, 2022.

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  • A man clears debris at a damaged residential building at Koshytsa Street, a suburb of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, where a military shell allegedly hit, Feb. 25, 2022.

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  • People look at a damaged building following a rocket attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, Feb. 25, 2022. Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a military operation in Ukraine on Thursday, Feb. 23. Explosions were heard soon after across the country and its foreign minister warned a “full-scale invasion” was underway.

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  • Ukrainian national guardsmen take positions in central Kyiv, Friday, Feb. 25, 2022.

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  • Ukrainian wait in the passport control area after exiting a train arriving from Odessa at Przemysl main train station on Feb. 25, 2022 in Przemysl, Poland. The Ukrainian government issued an order to stop 18-60 year-old men legible for military conscription from crossing borders.

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  • A Ukrainian worker removes a road sign to complicate Russian military navigation in Kalynivka, Ukraine, Feb. 26, 2022. While Russian assaults on Ukrainian cities has drawn most of the attention in the war’s early days, civilians in country towns have joined the fight, putting aside the routines of daily village life.

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  • Volunteers, one holding an AK-47 rifle, protect a main road leading into Kyiv, Ukraine on Feb. 25, 2022.

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  • People sit on a bus as they arrive at the border crossing between Poland and Ukraine, after Russia launched a massive military operation against Ukraine, in Medyka, Poland, Friday, Feb. 25, 2022.

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  • Hundreds of people seek shelter underground, on the platform, inside dark train cars, and even in the emergency exits, in a metro subway station as the Russian invasion of Ukraine continues, in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Feb. 24, 2022.

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  • People seek shelter on the stairs in a metro subway station in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Feb. 24, 2022.

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  • People enter Romania, after having crossed from Ukraine, Feb. 24, 2022, in Sighetu Marmatiei, Romania.

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  • People try to get onto a bus to leave Kyiv, Ukraine, Feb. 24, 2022.

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  • A child sleeps in an armchair as others gather in a shelter during Russian shelling in Mariupol, Ukraine, Feb. 24, 2022.

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  • A wounded woman is seen after an airstrike damaged an apartment complex outside of Kharkiv, Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022.

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  • Firefighters work on a fire on a building after bombings in the eastern Ukraine town of Chuguiv, Feb. 24, 2022, as Russian armed forces invade Ukraine from several directions.

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  • The body of a rocket stuck in an apartment after recent shelling on the northern outskirts of Kharkiv, Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022.

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  • A woman reacts as she waits for a train to leave Kyiv, Ukraine, Feb. 24, 2022.

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  • A Ukrainian soldier keeps watch on the front line with Russia-backed separatists near the town of Schastia, near the eastern Ukraine city of Lugansk on Feb. 23, 2022.

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  • A Russian Ka-52 helicopter gunship is seen in the field after a forced landing outside Kyiv, Ukraine, Feb. 24, 2022.

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  • People wait in a traffic jam as they leave Kharkiv in eastern Ukraine, Feb. 24, 2022.

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  • Rescuers work at the crash site of the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ Antonov aircraft, which was shot down in the Kyiv region, Ukraine, according to the State Emergency Service, Feb. 24, 2022.

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  • An American couple embrace after crossing the border in Medyka, Poland and fleeing the violence in Ukraine, Feb. 24, 2022.

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  • Ukrainian military vehicles move past Independence Square in central Kyiv on Feb. 24, 2022. Air raid sirens rang out in downtown Kyiv as cities across Ukraine were hit with what Ukrainian officials said were Russian missile strikes and artillery.

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  • A line for an ATM grows as people try to get cash as news of Russia invading Ukraine continues to dominate the headlines, in Slovyansk, Ukraine, Feb. 24, 2022.

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  • Smoke rise from an air defence base in the aftermath of an apparent Russian strike in Mariupol, Ukraine, Feb. 24, 2022.

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  • Damaged Ukrainian military equipment is seen in the aftermath of Russian shelling outside Mariupol, Ukraine, Feb. 24, 2022.

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  • A woman and child peer out of the window of a bus as they leave Sievierodonetsk, the Luhansk region, eastern Ukraine, Feb. 24, 2022.

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  • A woman holds a cross as she prays on Independence square in Kyiv, Ukraine on the morning of Feb. 24, 2022.

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  • Black smoke rises from a military airport in Chuhuiv near Kharkiv in Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022.

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