Vox: All Posts by Bita Honarvarhttps://cdn.vox-cdn.com/community_logos/52517/voxv.png2022-03-10T06:30:00-05:00https://www.vox.com/authors/bita-honarvar/rss2022-03-10T06:30:00-05:002022-03-10T06:30:00-05:00The toll Russia’s war is taking on Ukrainian civilians, in photos
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<figcaption>Evgeniy Maloletka/AP</figcaption>
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<p>Russian bombing destroyed a maternity hospital in Mariupol. Families across the country have been split apart, as more than 2 million refugees flee.</p> <p id="3FQfsu">Mariupol is in crisis. Russia has bombarded the city of 400,000 for a week, and efforts to establish a humanitarian corridor — a safe passage out for civilians — have so far failed. Ukrainian officials have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/09/ukraine-mariupol-civilians-russia-war">accused</a> Russia of shelling the evacuation route, effectively trapping people<strong> </strong>inside Mariupol who have already been <a href="https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/russia-ukraine-latest-news-2022-03-08/card/mariupol-faces-a-humanitarian-crisis-tx27RoRdd8FO08R6GjAp">cut off from water and electricity and cellphone service</a> for days. Food and medicine are running out, adding to a situation the United Nations has described as <a href="https://reliefweb.int/report/ukraine/ukraine-humanitarian-impact-situation-report-300-pm-eet-8-march-2022">“dire.”</a></p>
<p id="BwXjL8">The crisis is still unfolding, but images and videos from the city show the harm already wrought in the two weeks since <a href="https://www.vox.com/2022/2/23/22948534/russia-ukraine-war-putin-explosions-invasion-explained">Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a “special military operation” in Ukraine</a>.<strong> </strong></p>
<p id="wA5PgV">Associated Press photojournalists Mstyslav Chernov and Evgeniy Maloletka captured images of a man rushing a wounded toddler into a Mariupol hospital Friday, and they captured the hospital workers trying, and failing, to save 18-month-old Kirill. They captured the grief of Kirill’s mother, and his mother’s boyfriend, and the hospital workers who now must prepare for triage. “Show this to Putin,” a doctor said, according to Maloletka and Mstysalv. </p>
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<cite>Evgeniy Maloletka/AP</cite>
<figcaption>Marina Yatsko, left, runs behind her boyfriend Fedor, who is carrying her 18-month-old son Kirill into a Mariupol hospital on March 4.</figcaption>
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<cite>Evgeniy Maloletka/AP</cite>
<figcaption>Medical workers try to save 18-month-old Kirill.</figcaption>
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<cite>Evgeniy Maloletka/AP</cite>
<figcaption>Medical staff react after trying unsuccessfully to save Kirill’s life. </figcaption>
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<cite>Evgeniy Maloletka/AP</cite>
<figcaption>Marina and Fedor mourn over Kirill.</figcaption>
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<p id="L3iT9L">On Wednesday, five days later, <a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/03/09/1085450946/maternity-hospital-mariupol-russian-strike">a Russian strike destroyed a maternity hospital</a> in Mariupol.</p>
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<cite>Evgeniy Maloletka/AP</cite>
<figcaption>Ukrainian emergency workers and volunteers carry an injured pregnant woman away from a maternity hospital in Mariupol that was destroyed by shelling on March 9. <a class="ql-link" href="https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-maternity-hospital-pregnant-woman-dead-c0f2f859296f9f02be24fc9edfca1085" target="_blank">The AP reported on March 14</a> that the woman, whose identity has not yet been verified, and her baby subsequently died. </figcaption>
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<cite>Evgeniy Maloletka/AP</cite>
<figcaption>An injured pregnant woman walks down the stairs to make her way out of the destroyed hospital.</figcaption>
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<p id="wFonh4">These scenes are repeated across Ukraine. In Kyiv, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/08/world/europe/ukraine-uk-family-scheme-refugees.html">thousands are still trying to flee</a>, as <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/03/06/world/ukraine-russia">skirmishes and shelling continue on the outskirts</a> of the city, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/03/07/ukraine-kyiv-russia-advance/">in places like Irpin.</a> In Kharkiv, heavy shelling has destroyed homes, and <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/8/its-barbaric-kharkiv-residents-devastated-by-russian-bombing">forced residents underground, into subways</a>. </p>
<p id="TmXdsN">The full toll of the war so far is difficult to know, but the United Nations has estimated more than <a href="https://reliefweb.int/report/ukraine/ukraine-humanitarian-impact-situation-report-300-pm-eet-8-march-2022">1,300 civilian casualties</a>, as of March 8. More than 470 civilians have died, the UN said, though the actual figure is likely much higher. Almost <a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/03/08/1085200492/ukraine-2-million-refugees-russian-invasion">2 million civilians have escaped </a>to Poland, Moldova, and Romania in two weeks, making this Europe’s largest refugee crisis since World War II. Most are women and children, as the men stay in Ukraine to fight. </p>
<p id="LylZb7">Becky Bakr Abdulla, an adviser to the Norwegian Refugee Council who is currently based in Poland, said that most refugees she spoke to told her they fled Ukraine without a plan. And yet, she added, “there was no sign of them thinking that they would be able to return anytime soon.” <em>—Jen Kirby</em></p>
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<figcaption>A member of a Territorial Defense unit guards a barricade close to the eastern frontline in Kyiv on March 5. </figcaption>
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<cite>Vadim Ghirda/AP</cite>
<figcaption>A Ukrainian serviceman takes a shooting position as he looks at approaching vehicles in Irpin, on the outskirts of Kyiv, on March 9. </figcaption>
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<figcaption>Members of the Ukrainian Territorial Defense Force stand guard next to anti-tank structures blocking the streets of central Kyiv on March 6. </figcaption>
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<figcaption>A woman shelters behind a building as smoke and flames rise from a chemical warehouse that was hit by Russian shelling on the eastern front line near Kalynivka village in Kyiv on March 8.</figcaption>
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<cite>Evgeniy Maloletka/AP</cite>
<figcaption>A young girl sits in an improvised bomb shelter in Mariupol on March 7.</figcaption>
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<cite>Evgeniy Maloletka/AP</cite>
<figcaption>People queue up to receive a hot meal in a Mariupol bomb shelter on March 7.</figcaption>
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<figcaption>A woman hugs her cat inside a subway wagon in a Kyiv underground metro station used as a bomb shelter on March 8. </figcaption>
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<figcaption>Two people help another evacuate from Irpin as the city comes under heavy shelling on March 6.</figcaption>
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<cite>Wolfgang Schwan/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images</cite>
<figcaption>Civilians walk past the burned-out shell of a car as they flee Irpin on March 8.</figcaption>
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<cite>Marcus Yam/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images</cite>
<figcaption>Irpin residents evacuate as Russian forces advance and continue to bombard the town with artillery on March 6. </figcaption>
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<figcaption>Irpin residents flee heavy fighting via a destroyed bridge as Russian forces enter the city on March 7.</figcaption>
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<cite>Vadim Ghirda/AP</cite>
<figcaption>A family runs over the tracks as they race to board a Lviv-bound train, in Kyiv on March 3.</figcaption>
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<cite>Emilio Morenatti/AP</cite>
<figcaption>Aleksander, 41, presses his palms against the window as he says goodbye to his 5-year-old daughter at the Kyiv train station on March 4.</figcaption>
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<figcaption>A family on an evacuation train says goodbye to a young man staying behind at the central train station in Odesa on March 6.</figcaption>
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<cite>Vadim Ghirda/AP</cite>
<figcaption>Children look out of the window of an unheated Lviv-bound train, in Kyiv on March 3.</figcaption>
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<figcaption>A woman gestures as she looks out the window of a train carrying women and children fleeing fighting in Bucha and Irpin on March 4.</figcaption>
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<cite>Emilio Morenatti/AP</cite>
<figcaption>A crowd of people push to get on a train to Lviv at the Kyiv station in Ukraine on March 7.</figcaption>
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<figcaption>People crouch and comfort each other aboard a train in Lviv as they prepare to leave the country on March 7.</figcaption>
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