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Ukraine – a year of war: The Independent presents a selection of the most striking images of the conflict

Sergiy, Tetyana and Olga spoke with the PA news agency from the Depaul Day Centre in Kyiv ahead of the one-year anniversary of the war.

Polina, a social worker and mother of three young boys, fled Kharkiv in eastern Ukraine when she was six months pregnant.

If you told me a year ago that the Russian army would be performing as incompetently in Ukraine as it is today, I would have responded with a sarcastic chuckle. And yet, 12 months into Europe’s bloodiest conflict since World War II, this is precisely what has occurred. The Ukrainians…

Two civilians were killed in Russian shelling of the Kherson region in southern Ukraine on Wednesday, and two were wounded in a missile strike on the northeastern city of Kharkiv, regional officials said.

For months, Natalia Honcharenko had clung to the hope that her son, a Ukrainian soldier who helped defend the Mariupol steelworks against relentless Russian attack, might still be alive.

When Russian forces invaded a year ago, many fled cities and towns – but not everyone left the country, and some are returning to their homes

Russia expected it would quickly seize control of Ukraine at the outset of the invasion, as did many Western observers. But Ukraine fought back with remarkable tenacity and skill, boosted by Western weapons – and the front lines have shifted dramatically since Russian troops moved in on the northern, southern…

Russia's defence ministry said on Saturday that its forces had captured Hrianykivka, a village in Ukraine's eastern Kharkiv region that is well to the north of most significant fighting.

When Russian tanks began rolling across the border towards Kharkiv almost a year ago, lives were up-ended. So Vlada Chernykh, Ajuna Morozova and Alina Voronchikhina decided to join the volunteer Khartia Battalion, fighting for their city and their country.

Ukraine's northeastern city of Kharkiv put up a fierce resistance when Moscow's forces launched their full-scale invasion on February 24, 2022. Russian troops eventually withdrew back to their side of the border, 40 kilometres north of Ukraine's second largest city. But one year on, the people of Kharkiv are still…