Black smoke rises from a military airport in Chuguyev near Kharkiv on Feb. 24, 2022.

Black smoke rises from a military airport in Chuguyev near Kharkiv on Feb. 24, 2022. ARIS MESSINIS / AFP via Getty Images

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Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine, in Pictures

Photojournalists captured these images from the first day of Russia’s full-scale assault on its southwestern neighbor.

Defense One Staff

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A column of Russian military trucks approaches the Perekop checkpoint on the Ukrainian border on Feb. 24. | Sergei Malgavko, TASS via Getty Images

Ukrainian servicemen get ready to repel an attack in Ukraine's Lugansk region on Feb. 24. | Anatolii Stepanov, AFP via Getty Images

Smoke rises outside an intelligence building in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv on Feb. 24. | Chris McGrath/Getty Images

Local residents walk in a street as smoke rises near the town of Hostomel and the Antonov Airport in northwest Kyiv on Feb. 24. | Daniel Leal, AFP via Getty Images

Firefighters work on a fire after Russian forces struck the eastern Ukraine town of Chuguiv on Feb. 24. | Aris Messinis, AFP via Getty Images

A wounded woman is seen after an airstrike damaged an apartment complex in Chuguiv on Feb. 24. | Wolfgang Schwan, Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

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