In pictures: Six months of war in Ukraine

SENSITIVE MATERIAL. THIS IMAGE MAY OFFEND OR DISTURB  The body of a soldier, without insignia, who the Ukrainian military claim is a Russian army serviceman killed in fighting, lies on a road outside the city of Kharkiv, Ukraine, February 24. ...more

People wait in a traffic jam as they leave the city of Kharkiv, February 24. REUTERS/Antonio Bronic

Servicemen of the Ukrainian National Guard take positions in central Kyiv as Russian forces advanced toward the capital, February 25. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich

Smoke and flames rise over during the shelling near Kyiv, February 26. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich

People take cover as an air-raid siren sounds, near an apartment building damaged by recent shelling in Kyiv, February 26. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich

Ukrainian servicemen walk by a damaged vehicle, at the site of fighting with Russian troops, in Kyiv, February 26. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko

An armed local resident carries a cat in a carrier and a fish in an aquarium, which he took out of an apartment building damaged by shelling in Kyiv, February 26. REUTERS/Mikhail Palinchak

Local residents prepare Molotov cocktails to defend the city, in Uzhhorod, Ukraine February 27. REUTERS/Serhii Hudak

A woman fleeing the Russian invasion hugs a child at a temporary camp in Przemysl, Poland, February 28. REUTERS/Yara Nardi

A refugee child fleeing from Ukraine gestures when waiting for transport at Nyugati station, after Russia launched a massive military operation against Ukraine, in Budapest, Hungary, February 28, 2022. REUTERS/Marton Monus TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy poses after an interview with Reuters in Kyiv, March 1. REUTERS/Umit Bektas

A civilian trains to throw Molotov cocktails to defend the city, in Zhytomyr, Ukraine, March 1.  REUTERS/Viacheslav Ratynskyi

An aerial view shows a residential building destroyed by shelling in the settlement of Borodyanka in the Kyiv region, March 3. REUTERS/Maksim Levin

Children look out from an evacuation train from Kyiv to Lviv as they say goodbye to their father at Kyiv central train station in central Kyiv, Ukraine March 3. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich

SENSITIVE MATERIAL. THIS IMAGE MAY OFFEND OR DISTURB  Destroyed Russian military vehicles are seen on a street in the settlement of Borodyanka, in the Kyiv region, March 3. REUTERS/Maksim Levin

A Ukrainian service member walks near a school building destroyed by shelling in Zhytomyr, Ukraine, March 4. REUTERS/Viacheslav Ratynskyi

Local residents escape from the town of Irpin, after heavy shelling landed on the only escape route used by locals, as Russian troops advance towards the capital of Kyiv, in Irpin, near Kyiv, Ukraine March 6, 2022. REUTERS/Carlos Barria TPX...more

Local residents look for cover as they escape from the town of Irpin, after heavy shelling on the only escape route used by locals, while Russian troops advance towards the capital of Kyiv, in Irpin, near Kyiv, Ukraine March 6. REUTERS/Carlos...more

A member of the Honour Guard holds a portrait of the member of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Valerii, who was killed during Russia's invasion of Ukraine, during a funeral ceremony in Kyiv, March 8.  REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko

A police officer says goodbye to his son as his family flees from advancing Russian troops in the town of Irpin outside Kyiv, Ukraine, March 8. REUTERS/Thomas Peter

Oleksey Beregoviy, a musician of the Kyiv-Classic Symphony Orchestra, performs for journalists and people after an open-air concert named "Free Sky" at the Independence Square in central Kyiv, March 9. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich

Olga hugs her boyfriend Vlodomyr as they say goodbye prior to Vlodomyr’s deployment closer to the front line, at the train station in Lviv, Ukraine, March 9.   REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach

A Ukrainian soldier hides from a helicopter airstrike near Demydiv, Ukraine, March 10.  REUTERS/Maksim Levin

Ukrainian soldiers walk past a monument of the city founder Duke de Richelieu, covered with sand bags for protection in Odessa, Ukraine, March 10. REUTERS/Alexandros Avramidis

Ukrainian servicemen carry a dead body on stretcher in the town of Irpin outside Kyiv, Ukraine, March 12. REUTERS/Marko Djurica

SENSITIVE MATERIAL. THIS IMAGE MAY OFFEND OR DISTURB  People and medics help a wounded resident of a house destroyed by shelling in Kyiv, Ukraine, March 14. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich

A fragment of a missile is seen in the street after shelling in the separatist-controlled city of Donetsk, Ukraine, March 14. REUTERS/Stringer

Tracers are seen in the night sky as Ukrainian servicemen fire on a drone in Kyiv, March 14. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich

A woman walks with a bicycle next to a building damaged in the separatist-controlled town of Volnovakha in the Donetsk region, Ukraine March 15. REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko

SENSITIVE MATERIAL. THIS IMAGE MAY OFFEND OR DISTURB A man mourns next to the body of his mother, who was killed when an intercepted missile hit a residential building, in Kyiv, March 17. REUTERS/Thomas Peter

Tetiana Chornovol, a former member of the Ukrainian Parliament, now a service member and operator of an anti-tank guided missile weapon system, pulls an anti-tank missile out of a car at a position on the front line, in the Kyiv region, March 20....more

Local residents walk near residential buildings which were damaged in the besieged southern port city of Mariupol, Ukraine March 18. REUTERS/Stringer

Egor, 5, comforts his mother Helen Yakubets who cries in a ballroom, which has been converted to a temporary shelter, at the Mandachi hotel after fleeing from Chernihiv in Ukraine to Romania, at the border crossing in Suceava, Romania, March 20. Her...more

Firefighters work at the site of a bombing at a shopping center in Kyiv, March 21. REUTERS/Marko Djurica

Olena, the mother of Denys Snihur, 25, a border guard-turned-soldier, killed by Russian shelling in the northern town of Ovruch, mourns her son during his funeral at the Lychakiv cemetery, in Lviv, Ukraine, March 21. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra

Members of the Ukrainian Territorial Defense Forces check a man as they patrol during a curfew in Kyiv, March 22. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich

A firefighter works at a residential district that was damaged by shelling in Kyiv, Ukraine March 23. REUTERS/Marko Djurica

Family members of 96-year-old Holocaust survivor Borys Romanchenko attend his funeral in Kharkiv, Ukraine, March 24. Romanchenko was killed at his apartment by shelling. REUTERS/Thomas Peter

Local residents sit on a bench near an apartment building destroyed in the besieged southern port city of Mariupol, Ukraine March 25. REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko

A man walks past a fire after a shelling in Kharkiv, Ukraine March 25.  REUTERS/Oleg Pereverzev

People watch as smoke rises after an airstrike in Lviv, Ukraine March 26. REUTERS/Pavlo Palamarchuk

Curtains flutter in the wind at a building that was damaged by shelling in a neighborhood that has been largely abandoned and left without water, gas and heating, in Kharkiv, Ukraine, March 28.  REUTERS/Thomas Peter

A Ukrainian serviceman hugs his mother Larysa Kolesnyk, 82, after she was evacuated from Irpin town, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine March 30. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra

SENSITIVE MATERIAL. THIS IMAGE MAY OFFEND OR DISTURB    A service member of pro-Russian troops sits next to a body of a serviceman killed in fighting in the city of Mariupol, Ukraine March 31.  REUTERS/Chingis Kondarov

Ukrainian servicemen pose for a picture near a destroyed bridge in the town of Irpin outside Kyiv April 1. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich

Local residents ride bicycles past flattened civilian cars on a street in the town of Bucha, in Kyiv region, Ukraine April 1.  REUTERS/Oleksandr Ratushniak

A soldier takes a photograph of his comrade as he poses beside a destroyed Russian tank and armored vehicles, in Bucha, in Kyiv region, Ukraine April 2. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra

SENSITIVE MATERIAL. THIS IMAGE MAY OFFEND OR DISTURB   A body of a civilian, who according to residents was killed by Russian army soldiers and then buried along with others in one grave, is seen in Bucha, in Kyiv region, Ukraine April 2....more

An Orthodox Church is seen in front an oil refinery which caught fire following a missile attack near the port city of Odesa, Ukraine, April 3. REUTERS/Nacho Doce

SENSITIVE MATERIAL. THIS IMAGE MAY OFFEND OR DISTURB A body with hands bound by white cloth, who according to residents was shot by Russian soldiers, lies on the street in Bucha, Ukraine April 3. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra

A Ukrainian service member walks in a front of the Antonov An-225 Mriya cargo plane, the world's biggest aircraft, destroyed by Russian troops, at an airfield in the settlement of Hostomel, in Kyiv region, Ukraine April 3. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich

SENSITIVE MATERIAL. THIS IMAGE MAY OFFEND OR DISTURB A dog lays next to the body of a civilian, who according to residents was killed by Russian soldiers, in Bucha, Kyiv region, Ukraine, April 3. REUTERS/Stringer

A view shows buildings damaged in the southern port city of Mariupol, Ukraine April 3. REUTERS/Stringer

Marat and Renat Bonderenko stand in the living room of their neighbors' house, which was hit by a projectile during an aerial bombardment, in the village of Yakovlivka outside Kharkiv, Ukraine April 3. "War is when bad people shoot, when they blow...more

Local residents walk along a street next to a building damaged in the southern port city of Mariupol, Ukraine April 3. The sign on the vehicle reads: "Children". REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko

Local resident Viktoria Mukhina, 33, plants tulips with her daughter Miroslava near an apartment building damaged in the southern port city of Mariupol, Ukraine April 4. REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko

SENSITIVE MATERIAL. THIS IMAGE MAY OFFEND OR DISTURB    Serhii Lahovskyi, 26, mourns by the body of his friend Ihor Lytvynenko, who according to residents was killed by Russian soldiers, after they found him beside a building's basement, in Bucha,...more

A woman carries her cat as she walks past buildings that were destroyed by Russian shelling in Borodyanka, in the Kyiv region, Ukraine, April 5. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra

A couple hugs while walking past a building that was heavily damaged by shelling in Kharkiv, Ukraine, April 10. REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis

Graves of civilians killed during Ukraine-Russia conflict are seen next to apartment buildings in the southern port city of Mariupol, Ukraine April 10. REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko

A young man eats inside a subway car, as residents find shelter from shelling in a metro station, in Kharkiv, Ukraine, April 11. REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis

An armored vehicle of pro-Russian troops is seen in the street in the southern port city of Mariupol, Ukraine April 11. REUTERS/Chingis Kondarov

A woman reacts as she hugs another woman outside a heavily damaged apartment block, following an artillery attack, in Kharkiv, Ukraine, April 13. REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis

A view shows a torn flag of Ukraine hung on a wire in front an apartment building destroyed in the southern port city of Mariupol, Ukraine, April 14. REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko

SENSITIVE MATERIAL. THIS IMAGE MAY OFFEND OR DISTURB Yana Bachek is consoled by her partner Yevgeniy Vlasenko and her mother Lyubov Gubareva, as she mourns over the body of her father Victor Gubarev, 79, killed by shelling in Kharkiv, Ukraine, April...more

A local resident Mykola, 70, climbs down with a stepladder from a bridge destroyed during Russia's invasion in the village of Kukhari in Kyiv region, Ukraine, April 19.  REUTERS/Vladyslav Musiienko

Service members of pro-Russian troops, including fighters of the Chechen special forces unit, stand in front of the destroyed administration building of the Azovstal Iron and Steel Works in the southern port city of Mariupol, Ukraine, April 21. ...more

Military chaplains Maksym and Oleksandr conduct an Orthodox Easter service for Ukrainian servicemen at their position in Kharkiv region, Ukraine, April 24.  REUTERS/Serhii Nuzhnenko

A woman reacts as she says goodbye to her serviceman husband before he leaves to the frontline in Uzhhorod, Ukraine, April 26. REUTERS/Serhii Hudak

Children depict a Soviet-era monument to friendship between Ukraine and Russia after its demolition in central Kyiv, Ukraine, April 26. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich

Local boy Faddei plays in a destroyed Russian military truck in the village of Kolychivka, in Chernihiv region, Ukraine, April 27.  REUTERS/Vladyslav Musiienko

A view shows residential buildings destroyed in the town of Irpin, outside Kyiv, Ukraine, April 29. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko

People walk their bikes across the street as smoke rises above a plant of the Azovstal Iron and Steel Works in the southern port city of Mariupol, Ukraine, May 2. REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko

A Ukrainian serviceman fires with a mortar at a position at an unknown location in Kharkiv region, Ukraine, May 9.  REUTERS/Serhii Nuzhnenko

A child stands on a destroyed Russian tank near Makariv, Kyiv region, Ukraine, May 7. REUTERS/Mikhail Palinchak

A view shows an explosion at a plant of the Azovstal Iron and Steel Works in the southern port city of Mariupol, Ukraine, May 11. REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko

Russian soldier Vadim Shishimarin, 21, suspected of violations of the laws and norms of war, sits inside a defendants' cage during a court hearing in Kyiv, Ukraine, May 13.  REUTERS/Viacheslav Ratynskyi

Ukrainian servicemen carry bodies of Russian soldiers before putting them in a refrigerated rail car, in Kyiv, Ukraine, May 13. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko

Ukrainian soldiers Yashka and Olga embrace while their convoy makes a stop on its way to the eastern front, near Oleksandriya, Ukraine, May 15. REUTERS/Jorge Silva

A bus carrying wounded service members of Ukrainian forces from the besieged Azovstal steel mill in Mariupol drives under escort of the pro-Russian military upon arrival in Novoazovsk, Ukraine, May 16. REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko

People stand amid newly-made graves at a cemetery in the settlement of Staryi Krym, outside Mariupol, Ukraine, May 22. REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko

A family reunification takes place when a woman carrying a baby reacts after evacuating from Russian troop-occupied Kupiansk town in a bus convoy, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, on the outskirts of Kharkiv, Ukraine May 30. REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado

An evacuation convoy travels from Russian troop-occupied Kupiansk town, along a damaged road on the outskirts of Kharkiv, Ukraine May 30. REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado

A girl looks on at a display of Russian weapon systems used in their attacks, outside St Michael's Cathedral in Kyiv, Ukraine May 29. REUTERS/Edgar Su

People attend a funeral ceremony for Oleh Kutsyn, commander of Karpatska Sich battalion, who was recently killed in a battle against Russian troops in central Kyiv, Ukraine June 22.  REUTERS/Gleb Garanich

A damaged tram is pictured at a shelled tram depot in Kharkiv, June 15. REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado

A view of the damage to a school gymnasium that was shelled in Mykolaiv region, Ukraine June 13.  REUTERS/Edgar Su

People ride in a trolleybus near a shell from a multiple rocket launch system, in Bakhmut, Ukraine June 13. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich

SENSITIVE MATERIAL. THIS IMAGE MAY OFFEND OR DISTURB A police officer points at a site of a mass grave of people who, Ukrainian police say, were killed and buried at a position of Russian troops during Russia's invasion near the village of Vorzel, in...more

A Ukrainian serviceman looks on from inside a tank at a position in Donetsk region, as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, Ukraine June 11. REUTERS/Stringer

Family and friends attend a memorial service for Ukrainian serviceman Ivan Chekaniuk, who died during a combat mission in Sievierodonetsk, at St. Michael's Golden-Domed Cathedral in central Kyiv, Ukraine June 11. REUTERS/Marko Djurica

Resident Nataliia Prykhodko looks out from her burnt-out apartment in Irpin after coming back to Ukraine which she and her 17-year-old daughter left as refugees in February, outside Kyiv June 9. REUTERS/Marko Djurica

Press officer Olexii Mischenko shows a destroyed city administration building in Bashtanka, Mykolaiv region Ukraine June 9. REUTERS/Edgar Su

A Ukrainian service member shoots from a machine gun at a position on the front line near the town of New York, Donetsk region, Ukraine June 9. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich

A local resident Elena, 81, reacts as she leaves her building destroyed by Russian military strike, amid Russia's invasion on Ukraine, in the town of Druzhkivka, in Donetsk region, Ukraine June 6. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich

A firefighter takes a break during a fire at a house following a military strike, at a residential area in Kharkiv, June 7. REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado

Service members of pro-Russian troops are seen at a former fighting position of the Ukrainian armed forces outside the town of Svitlodarsk in the Donetsk region, May 25. REUTERS/Pavel Klimov

A turret of a destroyed armoured fighting vehicle is seen in a wheat field outside the town of Ichnia, in Chernihiv region, June 7.  REUTERS/Vladyslav Musiienko

A Ukrainian service member with a dog observes in the industrial area of the city of Sievierodonetsk, June 20. REUTERS/Oleksandr Ratushniak

Ukrainian service members fire a shell from a M777 Howitzer near a frontline, in Donetsk Region, June 6. REUTERS/Stringer

Anna Satanovskaya, 84, takes in the sudden loss of her husband, who was killed moments before, after a neighbourhood of apartment complexes was hit multiple times by shelling in Kharkiv, June 27. REUTERS/Leah Millis

Smoke rises after a missile strike in Kyiv, June 26. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich

People wait to board a train to Dnipro and Lviv during an evacuation effort from war-affected areas of eastern Ukraine, in Pokrovsk, Donetsk region, June 18. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich

A couple wounded in a shopping mall hit by a Russian missile strike hold hands in a hospital in Kremenchuk, in Poltava region, June 27. REUTERS/Anna Voitenko

SENSITIVE MATERIAL. THIS IMAGE MAY OFFEND OR DISTURB Kazelska Oksana, 45, reacts near the body of her mother-in-law, Alla Sochenko, 75, killed during a Russian military strike, in Kostiantynivka, July 9. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich

Sergii Veselyi, 51, speaks to his wife Svetlana, as he lies in an emergency vehicle after he was injured during shelling in Sloviansk, in Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, July 5. REUTERS/Marko Djurica

Lena, 58, reacts near her critically wounded  dog Hera, during a Russian military strike, in Kostiantynivka, July 9. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich

Local residents watch rescuers work as they wait for news about their relatives, who are under the rubble of a residential building damaged by a Russian military strike, in the town of Chasiv Yar, in Donetsk region, July 10. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich

A police officer helps an elderly woman leave her flat in a residential building damaged by a Russian military strike, in Donetsk region, July 19. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich

Buildings destroyed by military strikes are seen in northern Saltivka, one of the most damaged residential areas of Kharkiv, July 17. REUTERS/Nacho Doce

SENSITIVE MATERIAL. THIS IMAGE MAY OFFEND OR DISTURB Relatives react during a funeral ceremony for 4-year-old Liza Dmitrieva, who was killed during a recent Russian missile strike in Vinnytsia, July 17. REUTERS/Oleksandr Lapin

SENSITIVE MATERIAL. THIS IMAGE MAY OFFEND OR DISTURB   A man holds the hand of his 13 year-old son, who was killed by a Russian military strike in Kharkiv, July 20. REUTERS/Sofiia Gatilova

Mother of Ukrainian serviceman Abdulkarim Gulamov, who was killed in combat against Russian troops in Kherson region on July 17, holds a national flag during his funeral ceremony in Kyiv, July 21.  REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko

Ukrainian service members fire a shell from a M777 Howitzer at a frontline position in Kharkiv Region, July 21. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy takes a selfie with an injured Ukrainian serviceman in a hospital in Odesa, July 29.  Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/via REUTERS

A member of the Ukrainian National Guard jumps into a trench at a frontline position in Kharkiv region, August 3. REUTERS/Vyacheslav Madiyevskyy

People rest on a beach as smoke and flames rise after explosions at a Russian military airbase, in Novofedorivka, Crimea August 9. REUTERS/Stringer

A volunteer places a numbered cross at the grave of an unidentified person killed by Russian troops, during a mass burial ceremony in the town of Bucha, in Kyiv region, August 17. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko

A youngster looks out the window of a train traveling from Dnipro to Lviv during an evacuation effort from war-affected areas of eastern Ukraine, in Pokrovsk, Donetsk region, August 19. REUTERS/Ammar Awad