2022 pictures of the YEAR

Helena, a 53-year-old teacher, stands outside a hospital after the bombing of the eastern Ukraine town of Chuguiv on February 24, 2022, as Russian armed forces attempt to invade Ukraine from several directions, using rocket systems and helicopters to attack Ukrainian position in the south, the border guard service said. ARIS MESSINIS / AFP

The body of a Russian serviceman lies near destroyed Russian military vehicles on the roadside on the outskirts of Kharkiv on February 26, 2022, following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. SERGEY BOBOK / AFP

Helena (R) and her brother Bodia (L) from Lviv sit with their belongings at the Medyka pedestrian border crossing, in eastern Poland on February 26, 2022, following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. WOJTEK RADWANSKI / AFP

The body of an unidentified soldier lies near a burning Russian armoured personnel carrier (APC) during fighting with the Ukrainian armed forces in Kharkiv, on February 27, 2022. SERGEY BOBOK / AFP

Residents of Sievierodonetsk, Lugansk Oblast, shelter in their basement during heavy shelling by Russian forces and Russia-backed separatists on February 28, 2022. ANATOLII STEPANOV / AFP

A couple react as they stand at a platform in Kyiv central train station, as an evacuation train leaves Kyiv on February 28, 2022. DIMITAR DILKOFF / AFP

Ukrainian military servicemen keep warm by a fire in the Luhansk region on March 3, 2022. ANATOLII STEPANOV / AFP

A woman reacts in front of a burning house after shelling in the city of Irpin, outside Kyiv, on March 4, 2022. ARIS MESSINIS / AFP

Destroyed Russian armoured vehicles line the street in the city of Bucha, west of Kyiv, on March 4, 2022. ARIS MESSINIS / AFP

Men walk past a residential building damaged by shelling the previous day, in the city of Chernihiv on March 4, 2022. DIMITAR DILKOFF / AFP

A woman sits while people cross a nearby destroyed bridge as they evacuate the city of Irpin, northwest of Kyiv, during heavy shelling and bombing on March 5, 2022, 10 days after Russia launched a military invasion on Ukraine. ARIS MESSINIS / AFP

Evacuees cross a destroyed bridge as they flee the city of Irpin, northwest of Kyiv, on March 7, 2022. DIMITAR DILKOFF / AFP

Evacuees stand under a destroyed bridge as they flee the city of Irpin, northwest of Kyiv, on March 7, 2022. DIMITAR DILKOFF / AFP

A father places his hand on the window as he says goodbye to his daughter seated in an evacuation train at the central train station in Odessa on March 7, 2022. BULENT KILIC / AFP

A rescuer pushes a trolley carrying an elderly woman during the evacuation by civilians of the city of Irpin, northwest of Kyiv, on March 8, 2022. SERGEI SUPINSKY / AFP

A woman hugs her cat inside a subway carriage in a underground metro station used as a bomb shelter in Kyiv on March 8, 2022. - DIMITAR DILKOFF / AFP

Residents walk past the bodies of Russian soldiers as they evacuate the city of Irpin, north of Kyiv, on March 10, 2022. ARIS MESSINIS / AFP

An Ukrainian serviceman takes cover as people evacuate the city of Irpin on March 13, 2022. ARIS MESSINIS / AFP

A man flees with his belongings as fire engulfs a vehicle and building following artillery fire on the 30th day of the invasion of Ukraine by Russian forces, in the northeastern city of Kharkiv on March 25, 2022. ARIS MESSINIS / AFP

Misha, 5, who lost his mother some weeks ago and was injured during a Russian strike, is helped by his grandfather to get dressed, in the basement of a hospital in Mykolaiv, on March 26, 2022. BULENT KILIC / AFP

The body of a Russian soldier lies in a trench after Ukrainian troops retook the village of Mala Rogan, east of Kharkiv, on March 30, 2022. FADEL SENNA / AFP

A Ukrainian serviceman walks out of a trench on the frontline, east of Kharkiv, on March 31, 2022. FADEL SENNA / AFP

A newly arrived wounded soldier waits for treatment in a room of the military hospital in Zaporizhzhya, on March 31, 2022. EMRE CAYLAK / AFP

This aerial photograph taken on April 1, 2022, shows burnt Russian armoured vehicles in the outskirts of Kyiv, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. RONALDO SCHEMIDT / AFP

The body of a civilian, with his wrists tied behind his back, lies on a street in Bucha, northwest of the capital Kyiv on April 2, 2022. RONALDO SCHEMIDT / AFP

In this photograph taken on April 2, 2022, bodies of civilians lie on Yablunska street in Bucha, northwest of Kyiv, after the Russian army pulled back from the city. RONALDO SCHEMIDT / AFP

A dog lies next to the body of Volodymyr Brovchenko in Yablunska street in Bucha, northwest of Kyiv, April 3, 2022. SERGEI SUPINSKY / AFP

A dead body is seen in a mass grave in Motyzhyn village, Bucha district of Kyiv oblast, west of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on April 4, 2022. RONALDO SCHEMIDT / AFP

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (C) speaks to media in the town of Bucha, northwest of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, on April 4, 2022. RONALDO SCHEMIDT / AFP

A Russian soldier patrols in the Mariupol drama theatre, bombed last March 16, on April 12, 2022 in Mariupol, as Russian troops intensify their campaign to take the strategic port city, part of an anticipated massive onslaught across eastern Ukraine, while Russia's President makes a defiant case for the war on Russia's neighbour. - *EDITOR'S NOTE: This picture was taken during a trip organized by the Russian military.* ALEXANDER NEMENOV / AFP

A man walks in a cemetery in Irpin on April 19, 2022, where at least three rows of new graves have been dug to accommodate those killed during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. SERGEI SUPINSKY / AFP

Klavdia Samforskyi, 79, spreads a white lace to cover her husband Andriy, who died at the age of 87 from a disease, on March 26. His body was exhumed after being temporarily buried at their home in Bucha, Ukraine, on April 19, 2022. YASUYOSHI CHIBA / AFP

Relatives of Mykhailo Romaniuk, 58, who was shot dead on his bicycle on March 6, prepare to bury his coffin at a cemetery in Bucha, on April 19, 2022. YASUYOSHI CHIBA / AFP

An internally displaced 92-year-old woman lies down as she awaits evacuation by Ukraine's Red Cross, in a bunker at a factory in Severodonetsk, eastern Ukraine, on April 22, 2022. YASUYOSHI CHIBA / AFP

Ukrainian soldiers pass by as Polina (R), 15, and her cousin Nastya, 16, bring flowers to Polina's mother to celebrate her birthday as heavy shelling can be heard in the distance in Raihorodok, eastern Ukraine, on May 2, 2022. YASUYOSHI CHIBA / AFP

Evacuees from Mariupol arrive on buses at a registration and processing area for internally displaced people in Zaporizhzhia, on May 8, 2022. DIMITAR DILKOFF / AFP

A view of the interior of a house destroyed by shelling, in an empty settlement in Pylypchatyne, eastern Ukraine, on May 12, 2022. YASUYOSHI CHIBA / AFP

Sasha (L), 4, and his sister Ksenia, 8, members of a family that chose not to evacuate, pose in a bedroom in the basement shelter in Lysychansk, eastern Ukraine, on May 15, 2022. YASUYOSHI CHIBA / AFP

Ukrainian servicemen assist their comrades, not far from the frontline in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donbas, on May 21, 2022. ARIS MESSINIS / AFP

A woman mourns while visiting the grave of Stanislav Hvostov, 22, a Ukrainian serviceman killed during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, in the military section of the Kharkiv cemetery number 18 in Bezlioudivka, eastern Ukraine on May 21, 2022. DIMITAR DILKOFF / AFP

A mortar round explodes next to the road leading to the city of Lysychansk in the eastern Ukranian region of Donbas, on May 23, 2022. ARIS MESSINIS / AFP

An elderly woman sits in front of destroyed houses after a missile strike, which killed an old woman, in the city of Druzhkivka (also written Druzhkovka) in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donbas on June 5, 2022. ARIS MESSINIS / AFP

The father of a man who was reportedly killed by a cluster rocket mourns over his body in the city of Lysychansk in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donbas on June 18, 2022 . ARIS MESSINIS / AFP

A relative kneels by the body of a teenager who died in a Russian missile strike at a bus stop in Saltivka, a northern district of the second largest Ukrainian city of Kharkiv on July 20, 2022. SERGEY BOBOK / AFP

A Ukrainian soldier hugs his partner prior to boarding a train to Dnipro at the train station of Odessa on July 24, 2022. BULENT KILIC / AFP

A municipal worker trims bushes along a sidewalk near a burning house after it was hit by a shell in the outskirts of Bakhmut, Eastern Ukraine. BULENT KILIC / AFP

Ukrainian soldiers rest, some kilometres away from the frontline in the Donbas region on August 10, 2022. BULENT KILIC / AFP

A Ukrainian tank driver sits in his tank at the front line in the Donetsk region on August 19, 2022. ANATOLII STEPANOV / AFP

A girl stands atop destroyed Russian military equipment on Khreshchatyk street in Kyiv on August 20, 2022, which has been turned into an open-air military museum ahead of Ukraine's Independence Day on August 24. DIMITAR DILKOFF / AFP

Nadiya, the mother of late Ukrainian serviceman Roman Barvinok, mourns over his coffin during a funeral service in St. Michael's Golden-Domed Cathedral in Kyiv on August 28, 2022. GENYA SAVILOV / AFP

This photograph taken on September 25, 2022, shows empty graves after the exhumation of bodies in the mass grave created during the Russian occupation in Izyum, Kharkiv region. YASUYOSHI CHIBA / AFP

A wounded Ukrainian serviceman crosses the bridge over the Oskil River in Kupiansk, in the recently retaken area near Kharkiv on September 30, 2022. YASUYOSHI CHIBA / AFP

Black smoke billows from a fire on the Kerch bridge that links Crimea to Russia, after a truck reportedly exploded, near Kerch, on October 8, 2022. AFP

A drone approaches for an attack in Kyiv on October 17, 2022, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. YASUYOSHI CHIBA / AFP

This photograph taken on October 24, 2022, shows visitors eating lunch by candlelight due to a power cut at a bar in the centre of the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv. SERGEI SUPINSKY / AFP

An elderly woman walks in the village of Arkhanhelske in the Kherson region, which was formerly occupied by Russian forces, on November 3, 2022. BULENT KILIC / AFP

A Ukrainian soldier of an artillery unit fires towards Russian positions outside Bakhmut on November 8, 2022. BULENT KILIC / AFP

A man hugs a serviceman of the Ukrainian armed forces as local residents gather to celebrate the liberation of Kherson, on November 13, 2022. BULENT KILIC / AFP

A child receives aid supplies in the centre of Kherson, on November 18, 2022. BULENT KILIC / AFP