Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, launched Europe’s biggest conflict since World War II. This photo gallery looks back at four years of war.
This is a photo gallery curated by AP photo editors.
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FILE - Ukrainian servicemen walk through a charred forest at the frontline a few kilometers from Andriivka, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Saturday, Sept. 16, 2023. (AP Photo/Mstyslav Chernov, File)
FILE - Multiple wounds cover the face of Kostiantyn Bychek after he was injured in a Russian strike on residential neighborhood, during a hospital visit in Kyiv, Ukraine, April 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)
FILE - A peasant plants sunflowers in his garden between a damaged Russian tank and its turret in the village of Velyka Dymerka, Kyiv region, Ukraine, Wednesday, May 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)
FILE - A resident wounded after a Russian attack, lies inside an ambulance before being taken to a hospital in Kherson, southern Ukraine, Thursday, Nov. 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue, File)
FILE - Snowflakes cover the photograph of a fallen Ukrainian serviceman in downtown Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File)
FILE - Rescue workers carry an injured woman on a stretcher out of a house destroyed by a Russian airstrike in a residential neighbourhood in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Thursday, April 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)
FILE - A wounded Ukrainian soldier lies in a medical evacuation bus run by volunteers from the Hospitallers paramedic organization in Donetsk, Ukraine, on Wednesday, March 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)
FILE - Emergency tents are set up in a residential neighborhood where people can warm up following Russia's regular air attacks against the country's energy infrastructure that leave residents without power, water and heating in the dead of winter, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Vladyslav Musiienko, File)
EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT - FILE - A Ukrainian serviceman shouts to paramedics in front of the bodies of people killed after a Russian rocket attack on the food market in the city centrer of Kostiantynivka, Ukraine, Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)
FILE - Ukrainian military doctors treat their injured comrade who was evacuated from the battlefield at the hospital in Donetsk region, Ukraine, Monday, Jan. 9, 2023. The serviceman did not survive. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)
FILE - A woman navigates a debris-filled street where destroyed Russian military vehicles stand in Bucha on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, April 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File)
FILE - A woman cries during the funeral ceremony of Ihor Kusochek, a Ukrainian soldier of the Azov brigade in Bobrovytsia, Chernihiv region, Ukraine, Friday, Oct. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)
EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT - FILE - The bodies of people lie half-buried in a mass grave in Motyzhyn close to Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, April 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
FILE - A Ukrainian MSLR BM-21 "Grad" rocket launcher of the 95 Air Assault brigade fires towards Russian positions at the frontline near Kreminna, Ukraine, Thursday, March 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)
FILE - A dog stands next to the body of an elderly woman killed inside a home in Bucha on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, April 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File)
FILE - A Ukrainian police officer takes cover in front of a burning building that was hit in a Russian airstrike in Avdiivka, Ukraine, Friday, March 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)
FILE - Bodies are placed into a mass grave on the outskirts of Mariupol, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)
FILE - A man recovers items from a shop that caught fire from a Russian attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Friday, March 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File)
FILE - Ukrainians crowd under a destroyed bridge as they try to flee by crossing the Irpin River on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, March 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti, File)
FILE - A pregnant woman whose pelvis had been crushed and her hip detached during Russian shelling is evacuated from a maternity in Mariupol, Ukraine, March 9, 2022. The woman was taken to another hospital closer to the front line but did not survive. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)
FILE - Ukrainian servicemen walk through a charred forest at the frontline a few kilometers from Andriivka, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Saturday, Sept. 16, 2023. (AP Photo/Mstyslav Chernov, File)
FILE - Multiple wounds cover the face of Kostiantyn Bychek after he was injured in a Russian strike on residential neighborhood, during a hospital visit in Kyiv, Ukraine, April 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)
FILE - A peasant plants sunflowers in his garden between a damaged Russian tank and its turret in the village of Velyka Dymerka, Kyiv region, Ukraine, Wednesday, May 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)
FILE - A resident wounded after a Russian attack, lies inside an ambulance before being taken to a hospital in Kherson, southern Ukraine, Thursday, Nov. 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue, File)
FILE - Snowflakes cover the photograph of a fallen Ukrainian serviceman in downtown Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File)
FILE - Rescue workers carry an injured woman on a stretcher out of a house destroyed by a Russian airstrike in a residential neighbourhood in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Thursday, April 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)
FILE - A wounded Ukrainian soldier lies in a medical evacuation bus run by volunteers from the Hospitallers paramedic organization in Donetsk, Ukraine, on Wednesday, March 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)
FILE - Emergency tents are set up in a residential neighborhood where people can warm up following Russia's regular air attacks against the country's energy infrastructure that leave residents without power, water and heating in the dead of winter, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Vladyslav Musiienko, File)
EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT - FILE - A Ukrainian serviceman shouts to paramedics in front of the bodies of people killed after a Russian rocket attack on the food market in the city centrer of Kostiantynivka, Ukraine, Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)
FILE - Ukrainian military doctors treat their injured comrade who was evacuated from the battlefield at the hospital in Donetsk region, Ukraine, Monday, Jan. 9, 2023. The serviceman did not survive. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)
FILE - A woman navigates a debris-filled street where destroyed Russian military vehicles stand in Bucha on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, April 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File)
FILE - A woman cries during the funeral ceremony of Ihor Kusochek, a Ukrainian soldier of the Azov brigade in Bobrovytsia, Chernihiv region, Ukraine, Friday, Oct. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)
EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT - FILE - The bodies of people lie half-buried in a mass grave in Motyzhyn close to Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, April 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
FILE - A Ukrainian MSLR BM-21 "Grad" rocket launcher of the 95 Air Assault brigade fires towards Russian positions at the frontline near Kreminna, Ukraine, Thursday, March 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)
FILE - A dog stands next to the body of an elderly woman killed inside a home in Bucha on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, April 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File)
FILE - A Ukrainian police officer takes cover in front of a burning building that was hit in a Russian airstrike in Avdiivka, Ukraine, Friday, March 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)
FILE - Bodies are placed into a mass grave on the outskirts of Mariupol, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)
FILE - A man recovers items from a shop that caught fire from a Russian attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Friday, March 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File)
FILE - Ukrainians crowd under a destroyed bridge as they try to flee by crossing the Irpin River on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, March 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti, File)
FILE - A pregnant woman whose pelvis had been crushed and her hip detached during Russian shelling is evacuated from a maternity in Mariupol, Ukraine, March 9, 2022. The woman was taken to another hospital closer to the front line but did not survive. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)
