Violence has escalated in recent days in and around the Donbas Region as Russia's invasion of Ukraine enters what the Kremlin calls a new "phase."
The Fight For Eastern Ukraine
Medical workers help a man who was badly injured during shelling of Kharkiv on April 27.
Decoy flares are released by a Sukhoi SU-25 that was providing air support to Ukrainian troops during fighting near Yampil, in the Donetsk region on April 27.
The aftermath of a military strike near a railway station in Lyman in the Donetsk region on April 28.
Kremlin-backed separatist fighters ride an armored vehicle in the Donetsk region on April 27.
Ukrainian servicemen install a machine gun onto the turret of a tank in the Donetsk region on April 27.
Plumes of smoke rise above the landscape of the Luhansk region after shelling on April 26.
Numbered, unnamed graves are seen in the Starokrymskoye Cemetery in Mariupol on April 26.
Medical workers carry an injured man following shelling in Kharkiv on April 27.
Western anti-tank weapons are displayed in an arms depot that the Russian Defense Ministry says was captured by Russian troops. The photo was released on April 27.
A Ukrainian tanker does repair work in the Donetsk region on April 27.
A Ukrainian serviceman walks in a trench alongside a checkpoint in the Zaporizhzhya region on April 27.
Smoke rises in the aftermath of a military strike near a railway station in Lyman in the Donetsk region on April 28.
A man cooks over an open fire outside the bunker of a factory in Severodonetsk on April 27.
A Ukrainian fighter cleans his rifle while on duty near the front line in Svyatohirsk on April 27.
The body of a dead Ukrainian fighter lies amid rubble at an unnamed location in a picture released on April 27.
A woman smokes in the safety of a bunker that is serving as a bomb shelter in Severodonetsk on April 27.