Las siguientes imágenes pueden resultar perturbadoras para algunos lectores
La ofensiva de Rusia sobre Ucrania llegó a las inmediaciones de la capital, mientras que el temor a una guerra más amplia en Europa daba pie a nuevos esfuerzos internacionales para obligar a Moscú a detenerse, incluyendo sanciones directas al presidente Vladimir Putin.
Junto con los reportes de cientos de víctimas por los enfrentamientos —que incluyen el uso de proyectiles de artillería que cayeron sobre un edificio de apartamentos de Kiev, así como en puentes y escuelas-, también había señales de que Rusia podría estar tratando de derrocar al gobierno de Ucrania, algo que los funcionarios estadounidenses han descrito como el objetivo final de Putin.
Sería su esfuerzo más audaz hasta ahora para redibujar el mapa mundial y revivir la influencia de Moscú de la época de la Guerra Fría.
A dead soldier on the outskirts of Kharkiv, Ukraine, on Friday.
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A Ukrainian soldier inspects the wreckage of a downed plane in Kyiv, the nation’s capital, on Friday.
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A Ukrainian woman and child at the border of Ukraine and Slovakia.
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People in Tbilisi, Georgia, rally in support of Ukraine and to protest the Russian invasion.
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A boy in a public basement being used as a bomb shelter in Kyiv, Ukraine.
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A Ukrainian firefighter, right, walks around wreckage of a downed aircraft in Kyiv, Ukraine.
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Ukrainian soldiers take up positions on a bridge in Kyiv, the capital.
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People survey an apartment building damaged by a missile strike in Kyiv on Feb. 25.
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Residents take shelter in a subway station in Kyiv on Feb. 25.
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A Ukrainian soldier keeps watch on the front line with Russia-backed separatists near the town of Shchastia in Luhansk, Ukraine.
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Smoke pours from a building in Chuguiv, a Ukrainian town near Kharviv, after it was attacked Thursday.
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Hundreds of people seek shelter in a subway station.
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Ukrainian soldiers in Ukraine’s Lugansk region on Feb. 24.
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A man uses a carpet to cover a body after bombings in the eastern Ukraine town of Chuguiv on Feb. 24.
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President Biden departs the East Room of the White House after a news conference.
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An injured man waits to receive medical assistance after bombings in the eastern Ukraine town of Chuguiv.
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A woman and child on a bus leave the Luhansk region of eastern Ukraine.
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Damaged radar arrays and other equipment smolder after a missile strike outside Mariupol, Ukraine.
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Russian military vehicles move toward the border in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine.
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A Ukrainian serviceman speaks on a walkie-talkie at his position near rebel-held territory near Svitlodarsk, eastern Ukraine.
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A wounded woman whose apartment complex was damaged by an airstrike outside Kharkiv, Ukraine.
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A man mourns near a body after an airstrike at an apartment complex outside Kharkiv, Ukraine.
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Residents leave Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, after Russian missile strikes.
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A woman walks away from a line for the ATM as people try to obtain cash as news of Russia invading Ukraine continues to dominate the headlines, in Slovyansk, Ukraine, Thursday, Feb. 24, 2022.
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Civilians are evacuated from the Donetsk region, under the control of pro-Russia separatists.
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Girls hold their mobile phones as they take refuge in a Kyiv metro station.
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People stand at the doorway to a basement they use as a bomb shelter in the town of Shchastia, near the eastern Ukraine city of Lugansk.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by the Kremlin wall to mark the Defender of the Fatherland Day in Moscow on Wednesday.
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