A mother hugs her downcast, trembling-lipped son tightly by the cheeks as they arrive at a Lviv railway station from the besieged city of Mariupol.
A blue-veiled woman covers her eyes and cries on a bus as she waits for Ukrainian police to check her documents and belongings in Brovary after leaving the town of Bobrik.
Red and yellow tulips cover the coffin of a Ukrainian sailor who died in combat. Relatives and soldiers attend his funeral ceremony in kyiv.
On the 25th day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Associated Press photographers capture upended lives, bitter farewells and a day of prayer.
Worshipers bow their heads as a woman looks up at the sky inside the Orthodox Cathedral of the Transfiguration of Jesus in kyiv. In another photograph, a woman receives communion in the same temple.
Elsewhere in the Ukrainian capital, a religious ceremony is taking place alongside a van carrying the bodies of three civilians recently recovered from the town of Horenka. In an additional image, coffins are seen awaiting cremation in kyiv.
Wrapped in a blue blanket, a woman listens to a police officer as she waits with other neighbors for permission to enter her bomb-destroyed apartment in a kyiv neighborhood. In another of her photos, she assesses the damage to her apartment, lit by the sun streaming through the shattered window.
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