▲ Russia Ukraine War A view of destroyed buildings in Borodyanka, north of Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, February 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
Russia’s attack on Ukraine began on February 24, 2022, and in the following year, tens of thousands of people, many of them civilians, were killed.
In the midst of a war that continues without an exit, the arms race and the camps formed around the world have intensified, and have a major impact on economic crises and food shortages.
Let’s look at the record of the war in Ukraine for a year through pictures.
▲ A self-propelled artillery vehicle fires on the front line, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Saturday, February 18, 2023. (AP )▲ (FILES) In this file photo taken on March 07, 2022 a father puts his hand on the window as he says goodbye to his daughter in front of an evacuation train at the central railway station in Odessa. (Photo by BULENT KILIC / AFP)▲ In this file photo taken on February 24, 2022 Olena Kourilo, a 52-year-old teacher stands outside a hospital after the bombing of the town of Chuguiv in eastern Ukraine as the Russian armed forces tried to invade Ukraine from several directions, by used rocket systems and helicopters to attack a Ukrainian position in the south, the border guard service said. – Russian ground forces crossed into Ukraine from several directions, Ukraine’s border guard service said, hours after President Vladimir Putin announced the launch of a major offensive. Russian tanks and other heavy equipment were crossing the border in several northern regions, as well as from the Kremlin-annexed Crimean peninsula in the south, the agency said. (Photo by Aris Messinis / AFP)▲ In this file photo taken on October 08, 2022 Black smoke billows from a fire on the Kerch bridge that connects Crimea to Russia, after a truck exploded, near Kerch. – Moscow announced on October 8, 2022 that a truck exploded with massive fire and damaged the key Kerch bridge – built as Russia’s only land link with annexed Crimea – and promised to find the perpetrators, without immediately blaming Ukraine. (Photo by AFP)▲ A man holding a girl watches as the funeral procession with the body of Kostiantyn, 35, passes by during his funeral in Borova, near Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, February 18, 2023. Kostiantyn Kostiuk, a civilian who was a volunteer in the armed forces of Ukraine, was wounded during a battle against Russians on January 23rd near Bakhmut and finally died on February 10th in a hospital. ( AP )▲ A Ukrainian soldier walks along a street in Bakhmut, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Sunday, Feb. 12, 2023. (AP)▲ A woman places a Ukrainian flag at a memorial to those killed during the war, near Maidan Square in central Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, February 12, 2023. (AP )▲ Mykola Berezyk (R), 28-year-old chaplain of the Ukrainian Army’s 95th Air Assault Brigade, also known as “Father Mykola?, prepares to pray for Ukrainian soldiers who returned from the front line in the Donetsk region on February 22, 2023, in the midst of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by YASUYOSHI CHIBA / AFP)▲ Military medics help a soldier wounded in battle into an evacuation vehicle near Bakhmut, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023. (AP)▲ US President Biden made a surprise visit to Kiuu, Ukraine US President Biden visits Kiiu, Ukraine (Kiu AFP = Yonhap News) US President Joe Biden (right) visits Ukraine’s capital Kiu on the 20th (local time) and is welcomed by President Volodymyr Zelensky. President Biden visited Kiiu on the 24th, a year before Russia invaded Ukraine. This is the first time that President Biden has visited Ukraine since the beginning of the war. 2023.02.20▲ RUSSIA, MOSCOW – FEBRUARY 22, 2023: Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) addresses an outdoor concert and rally called “Glory to Defenders of Our Fatherland” in Luzhniki, on the eve of Defender of the Fatherland Day in Russia. Sergei Bobylev/TASS▲ On the morning of the 23rd, at Cheonggye Plaza in Taepyeong-ro, Jung-gu, Seoul, attendees picket and encourage peace talks between Ukraine and Russia at a joint press conference held by Korean civil society to condemn the invasion of Ukraine and call for a ceasefire. 2023.2.23 Reporter Ahn Joo-young
