With the largest and deadliest conflict in Europe since World War II stretching into a fifth year, the scale of the devastation wreaked by Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine continues to mount.
The front line is a place of ghastly violence where hundreds of thousands of Russian and Ukrainian soldiers have been killed or wounded, according to conservative Western estimates.
Russian forces have moved forward in small increments, sustaining a staggering number of casualties. Ukraine has sought to slow the advance while also committing some of its limited resources to counterattacks, such as a surprise incursion into the western Russian region of Kursk and strikes against Russian strategic airfields using drones.
President Trump’s efforts to thaw relations with Moscow and press Ukraine into a rapidly negotiated end to the war have drawn few concessions from President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia. Millions of Ukrainians have spent hours in bomb shelters as Russia rains down missiles and drones on military units and civilians. Ukraine’s energy grid, severely damaged, is working, albeit with sporadic outages. Thousands of schools, hospitals and cultural institutions have been damaged or destroyed. Millions of people have lost their homes.
For all that time, photographers with The New York Times and other news organizations have chronicled the war. Some images, our photographers say, will never leave them.
This gallery contains graphic images.
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