AP PHOTOS: Day 29: Images of death, survival in Ukraine war
AP PHOTOS: Day 29: Images of death, survival in Ukraine war
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Retired policeman, Volodymyr Ilnytskyi, 55, prays before ringing the bell of the Latin Cathedral in Lviv, western Ukraine, Thursday, March 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)
Residential apartment building are seen heavily damaged after a Russian attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
Natalya kisses her brother Sergiy Muravyts’kyi, 61, who was killed by Russian soldiers in the village of Mriya, which means Dream, in Ukrainian, during a ceremony before his cremation in Baikove cemetery, Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Neighbours try to extinguish the fire of a house, destroyed after a Russian attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
The lifeless body of a resident lies next to a shop after being killed by a Russian attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
A man looks up as he sits in his apartment in a multistory house destroyed by a Russian attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
A cemetery worker walks amid marble urns that contains the cremated remains of people inside Baikove’s cemetery offices, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 24, 2022. Due to the war, many relatives can’t pick up the ashes of their loved ones. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Nadia kisses her 10-year-old granddaughter Zlata Moiseinko, suffering from a chronic heart condition, as she receives treatment at a schoolhouse that has been converted into a field hospital in Mostyska, western Ukraine, Thursday, March 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)
The monument of the Duke of Richelieu, is covered with sandbags next to a Carrousel , in Odesa, Ukraine, Thursday March 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
Residents wait in line to receive aid from the Ukrainian Red Cross in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
Ukrainian children are entertained by Javier Way Waka Katz, clown of the Dream Doctors organization from Israel, at the border crossing in Medyka, southeastern Poland, on Thursday, March 24, 2022. They aimed to cheer up refugee children and also their parents, and bring temporary relief from the psychological traumas caused by war and separation. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
A refugee fleeing the war from neighboring Ukraine with his family looks out of a tent after crossing the border by ferry at the Isaccea-Orlivka border crossing in Romania, Thursday, March 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)
The regional administration building, heavily damaged after a Russian attack earlier this month is still covered in debris in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
Julia, 16, from Dnipro, who is traveling alone, holds her pet rabbit Baby after arriving to the Lviv main station, western Ukraine, Thursday, March 24, 2022. She was on her way to join her mother and then go on to Poland or Germany. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)
A man carries shopping bags as heavy smoke from a warehouse destroyed by Russian bombardment casts shadows on the road outside Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
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Retired policeman, Volodymyr Ilnytskyi, 55, prays before ringing the bell of the Latin Cathedral in Lviv, western Ukraine, Thursday, March 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)
Residential apartment building are seen heavily damaged after a Russian attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
Natalya kisses her brother Sergiy Muravyts’kyi, 61, who was killed by Russian soldiers in the village of Mriya, which means Dream, in Ukrainian, during a ceremony before his cremation in Baikove cemetery, Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Natalya kisses her brother Sergiy Muravyts’kyi, 61, who was killed by Russian soldiers in the village of Mriya, which means Dream, in Ukrainian, during a ceremony before his cremation in Baikove cemetery, Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Neighbours try to extinguish the fire of a house, destroyed after a Russian attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
The lifeless body of a resident lies next to a shop after being killed by a Russian attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
A man looks up as he sits in his apartment in a multistory house destroyed by a Russian attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
A cemetery worker walks amid marble urns that contains the cremated remains of people inside Baikove’s cemetery offices, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 24, 2022. Due to the war, many relatives can’t pick up the ashes of their loved ones. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
A cemetery worker walks amid marble urns that contains the cremated remains of people inside Baikove’s cemetery offices, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 24, 2022. Due to the war, many relatives can’t pick up the ashes of their loved ones. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Nadia kisses her 10-year-old granddaughter Zlata Moiseinko, suffering from a chronic heart condition, as she receives treatment at a schoolhouse that has been converted into a field hospital in Mostyska, western Ukraine, Thursday, March 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)
Nadia kisses her 10-year-old granddaughter Zlata Moiseinko, suffering from a chronic heart condition, as she receives treatment at a schoolhouse that has been converted into a field hospital in Mostyska, western Ukraine, Thursday, March 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)
The monument of the Duke of Richelieu, is covered with sandbags next to a Carrousel , in Odesa, Ukraine, Thursday March 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
Residents wait in line to receive aid from the Ukrainian Red Cross in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
Ukrainian children are entertained by Javier Way Waka Katz, clown of the Dream Doctors organization from Israel, at the border crossing in Medyka, southeastern Poland, on Thursday, March 24, 2022. They aimed to cheer up refugee children and also their parents, and bring temporary relief from the psychological traumas caused by war and separation. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
Ukrainian children are entertained by Javier Way Waka Katz, clown of the Dream Doctors organization from Israel, at the border crossing in Medyka, southeastern Poland, on Thursday, March 24, 2022. They aimed to cheer up refugee children and also their parents, and bring temporary relief from the psychological traumas caused by war and separation. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
A refugee fleeing the war from neighboring Ukraine with his family looks out of a tent after crossing the border by ferry at the Isaccea-Orlivka border crossing in Romania, Thursday, March 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)
A refugee fleeing the war from neighboring Ukraine with his family looks out of a tent after crossing the border by ferry at the Isaccea-Orlivka border crossing in Romania, Thursday, March 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)
The regional administration building, heavily damaged after a Russian attack earlier this month is still covered in debris in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
Julia, 16, from Dnipro, who is traveling alone, holds her pet rabbit Baby after arriving to the Lviv main station, western Ukraine, Thursday, March 24, 2022. She was on her way to join her mother and then go on to Poland or Germany. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)
Julia, 16, from Dnipro, who is traveling alone, holds her pet rabbit Baby after arriving to the Lviv main station, western Ukraine, Thursday, March 24, 2022. She was on her way to join her mother and then go on to Poland or Germany. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)
A man carries shopping bags as heavy smoke from a warehouse destroyed by Russian bombardment casts shadows on the road outside Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
A woman kisses the forehead of her 61-year-old brother, who lies in a coffin after being killed by Russian soldiers in a village whose name in English means “dream.” A cemetery worker walks amid rows and rows of black marble urns containing the cremated remains of countless people killed in Russia’s war on Ukraine. And a body covered by a white curtain or sheet lies on a city street, seemingly guarded by the cat and puppy who gaze out from advertisement photographs hung in a shop window.
On day 29 of the conflict — one month since it began — persistent signs of death lingered alongside numerous scenarios of people struggling to survive.
Images captured by Associated Press photographers show residents who have not fled Ukraine cleaning up rubble, going to the market, or queueing in line for help with daily necessities.
In one photograph, a man engulfed in clouds of dirty smoke holds a white cloth to his mouth with one hand as he picks through the debris of a house destroyed by fire with another in the besieged northeastern city of Kharkiv. In another, a lone man seen in silhouette walks up an empty street outside the capital of Kyiv, a shopping bag hanging from each hand, as smoke from a nearby warehouse destroyed by Russian forces fills the air and darkens the sky above him.
Many continue to leave their home cities, including 10-year-old girl Zlata Moiseinko. Dressed in a bright pink top and matching pink slippers, the child with the long blond braid receives a kiss on the top of her head from her grandmother in an AP photograph taken at a schoolhouse-turned field hospital in the western city of Mostyska. Zlata, who has a chronic heart condition, fled with her family from the community of Bila Tserkva south of Kyiv. She and her family are hoping to join friends in Germany.
Also hoping to make it to Germany or Poland is 16-year-old Julia of Dnipro. Julia traveled with her pet rabbit Baby to the western city of Lviv, where her mother awaited her.
Lviv, a city that has been relatively untouched by the war, has been a refuge for thousands of displaced Ukrainians. Residents there have embraced the newcomers, while continuing to hope for peace. One of them is retired policeman Volodymyr Ilnytskyi, seen in an AP photograph offering a prayer before ringing a cathedral bell.