August 24, 2022 GMT https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-kyiv-world-news-e1599124f0a0310b6530dcb323b468d5 During six months of war in Ukraine, Associated Press photographers captured images that are concise and eloquent. The click of a shutter is short, but the stories they tell are profound. Sometimes they show a life that ended in an instant – the body of a Russian soldier lying face down in the snow near a wrecked tank. Others record an end of life, with agony and horror – doctors carrying a mortally wounded pregnant woman on a stretcher through the rubble of a hospital in Mariupol that had been destroyed by bombs. Full Coverage: Photography There are moments of bold energy, such as a rifle-wielding woman waving a Ukrainian flag against a bright blue sky as the tower of a Kiev monastery rises in the background. Some depict lives about to change, heading into the unknown. A father stands outside a train car in Kyiv, his hands pressed against the window framing his young daughter’s face as the train prepares to depart the besieged city for distant but peaceful Lviv. Hundreds of people huddle under a damaged bridge in the Kiev suburb of Irpin, wondering if the gunfire will subside enough to even give them a chance to escape into the unknown. A woman walks her dog in Kyiv, an event from everyday life. Her wary gaze on her pet turns her face away from the rubble of a rocket-ravaged mall directly behind her. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy sits on a stepladder in his office, seemingly casually, with his legs crossed and his chin resting on one hand. With his attitude, he could be a man waiting for a lingering romantic interest. But the piles of sandbags behind him speak of the constancy of war. He is waiting, but not for a date – instead, to see how and when the war will end.
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