Twenty-Four Hours Of War In Ukraine
- By RFE/RL
After Russian advances into Ukraine stalled, the violence continued on March 23 and 24 as rocket attacks and artillery strikes rocked several major cities, and a Russian ship was reportedly destroyed in southern Ukraine.
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A mother shelters her son as shells impact the besieged southern port city of Mariupol on March 23.
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A car riddled with shrapnel and leaking fluid after a rocket attack on the Shevchenko district of Kyiv on March 23.
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Smoke rises in an unidentified suburb of Kyiv after damage from shelling on March 23.
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The internal frame of a Smerch rocket that possibly contained cluster bombs, photographed after slamming into the ground next to a memorial to victims of Soviet repression on the outskirts of Kharkiv on March 23.
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A Russian Navy vessel burns after an explosion in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian port of Berdyansk on March 24. It is unclear which ships were damaged in the explosion.
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A customer checks his rifle in a gun shop in Lviv on March 23. The western Ukrainian city is currently far from the shooting war, but sites in the west of the country have been hit with Russian cruise missiles, and preparations are being made to defend Lviv.
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Residents of Mariupol wait in line for humanitarian aid handed out by Russian troops on March 23.
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The damaged tail of a Smerch rocket in the Shevchenko district of Kyiv on March 23.
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A firefighter works inside a burning residential home in a suburb of Kyiv on March 23.
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Volunteers carry sandbags used to barricade sites inside Odesa on March 23. The southern city has so far been largely untouched by the invasion, but Russian ships have been spotted off the coast.
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A woman stands next to the grave of her mother, a week after she was killed by shelling in Mariupol.
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Shattered windows above a damaged pavement after a rocket attack on the Shevchenko district of Kyiv on March 23.
