Echoes From History: Ukraine War Photos Mirror Scenes From WWII

The bodies of Belgian civilians killed by the German military during a Nazi counteroffensive into Luxembourg and Belgium in December 1944. 

A Ukrainian policeman walks past the bodies of people killed by shelling in Mariupol on March 15. 

A building in Warsaw is hit with a giant German mortar shell in August 1944.

An apartment building explodes after being hit by a shell from a Russian tank in Mariupol on March 11. 

A Russian woman weeps in front of her burning house during the Nazi occupation of the Soviet Union in 1943. 

A woman cries as she stands in front of a house that caught fire after being hit by shells in Irpin, near Kyiv, on March 4. 

Japanese soldiers being helped by American troops after the capture of a Japanese stronghold on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands in an undated photo from World War II. 

A wounded Ukrainian fighter is helped to safety after a firefight in the Kyiv region on March 10. 

U.S. troops crossing the Doubs River in France in 1944. 

Ukrainian servicemen cross a river next to a destroyed bridge near the city of Irpin on March 13. 

Anti-tank obstacles on the streets of Moscow as the Nazis advance into the Soviet Union in October 1941. 

Anti-tank obstacles in downtown Kyiv on March 11. 

The wreckage of a German convoy during the Battle of Halbe in Germany in April 1945.

People look at the gutted remains of Russian military vehicles in Bucha, close to Kyiv, on March 1. 

Ruined flats in Limehouse, East London, after a German V2 rocket landed nearby in March 1945. 

A residential building that partially collapsed after shelling in Kyiv on March 18. 

A team of football players being trained in bayonet fighting in Moscow in June 1943.  

Civilians who volunteered to join the Ukrainian Territorial Defense Forces during a training session in Odesa on March 18. 

A German mother with her son after discovering her Berlin house was destroyed during the war in January 1945. 

Helen Yakubets cries with her 5-year-old son inside a ballroom that has been converted to a temporary shelter in Suceava, Romania, on March 20. The woman's husband and teenage son remain behind in Ukraine. 

Civilians inside Moscow's Mayakovskaya subway station during an air raid in 1941. 

People shelter from shelling in a subway station in Kharkiv on March 10. 

A U.S. Marine surveys the aftermath of the American bombardment of the Japanese town of Naha in the Okinawa prefecture in June 1945. 

 A Ukrainian serviceman picks his way through debris inside the Retroville shopping mall after a Russian rocket attack on March 21.