Depuis le 24 février 2022, la Russie s’est lancée en guerre contre son voisin l’Ukraine. Depuis, l’Occident s’est rangé au côté de président ukrainien Volodymyr Zelensky dans la défense de son pays face à Vladimir Poutine et ses hommes.
February 24, 2022, Kyiv, Ukraine: A photo provided by the Ukrainian President’s office appears to show an explosion in the capital city of Kyiv early Thursday, February 24. Where: Kyiv, Ukraine When: 24 Feb 2022 Credit: ROPI/ZUMA Press/Cover Images **ONLY AVAILABLE FOR PUBLICATION IN THE UK** 
**VIDEO AVAILABLE: CONTACT INFO@COVERMG.COM TO RECEIVE** This video footage, shared by Ukrainian officials on Wednesday, shows troops finding an abandoned cat during minesweeping operations following their retaking of the key strategic outpost of Snake Island. In a post on Telegram, the Ukrainian border force said they had “evacuated” the cat who had “lived for several months” during Russia’s occupation. Russia first took the island in the early days of its invasion of Ukraine in February – when the garrison became national heroes by telling the crew of the Russian warship Moskva to “go f**k yourself” before they took the island – a key strategic asset 40km off Ukraine’s south western coast. The vessel, the flagship of the Black Sea Fleet, was subsequently sunk by Ukrainian forces. Ukraine retook the island on 30 June after Russian forces abandoned their positions. Ukrainian officials wrote that Russian equipment was discovered on the island, including guidance and control systems, Orlan-10 UAV, MANPADS systems, grenade launchers, flamethrowers and small arms. They also removed a Russian flag flying on the island and replaced it with a Ukrainian one. Where: Snake Island, Ukraine When: 20 Jul 2022 Credit: DPSU/State Border Service/Cover Images **EDITORIAL USE ONLY. MATERIALS ONLY TO BE USED IN CONJUNCTION WITH EDITORIAL STORY. THE USE OF THESE MATERIALS FOR ADVERTISING, MARKETING OR ANY OTHER COMMERCIAL PURPOSE IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED. MATERIAL COPYRIGHT REMAINS WITH STATED SUPPLIER.** 
25 July 2022, Ukraine, Hostomel: The destroyed remains of an Antonov An-225 lie on the airfield. The six-engine Antonov An-225 « Mrija » cargo plane was destroyed in fighting during the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Photo: Christophe Gateau/dpa Where: Hostomel, Ukraine When: 25 Jul 2022 Credit: Christophe Gateau/DPA/Cover Images **ONLY AVAILABLE FOR PUBLICATION IN THE UK AND USA** 
02 March 2022, Poland, Medyka: Two sisters cross the Ukrainian-Polish border with their children by the hand. Numerous people cross the border here fleeing the war in Ukraine. Photo: Kay Nietfeld/dpa Where: Medyka, Poland When: 02 Mar 2022 Credit: Kay Nietfeld/DPA/Cover Images **ONLY AVAILABLE FOR PUBLICATION IN THE UK AND USA** 
North America Rights Only – Irpin, Ukraine -20220302- The Ukrainian front decided to shell the bridge as it is the direct way for the Russian convoy coming from Belarus to storm the capital. In addition, Ukrainian authorities have reported that on Tuesday night several neighborhoods around Kiev have been shelled in what is the seventh day since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began. The affected areas have been Rusanivka, a few kilometers from the central Maidan Square; in the historic district of Kurenivka; on the outskirts, in Boiarka, and also in Zhuliany, near the city’s airport. -PICTURED: General View (Ukraine Forces Blow up Bridge to Halt Russian Tank Advance) -PHOTO by: Diego Herrera/Europa Press/ABACA/INSTARimages.com This is an editorial, rights-managed image. Please contact Instar Images LLC for licensing fee and rights information at sales@instarimages.com or call +1 212 414 0207 This image may not be published in any way that is, or might be deemed to be, defamatory, libelous, pornographic, or obscene. Please consult our sales department for any clarification needed prior to publication and use. Instar Images LLC reserves the right to pursue unauthorized users of this material. If you are in violation of our intellectual property rights or copyright you may be liable for damages, loss of income, any profits you derive from the unauthorized use of this material and, where appropriate, the cost of collection and/or any statutory damages awarded Featuring: General View (Ukraine Forces Blow up Bridge to Halt Russian Tank Advance) Where: Irpin, Ukraine, Ukraine When: 02 Mar 2022 Credit: Diego Herrera/Europa Press/ABACA/INSTARimages.com **North America Rights Only** 
– Mariupol, Ukraine -20220309-Shocking Footage Shows Aftermath Of Airstrike On Maternity Hospital In Mariupol VIDEO AVAILABLE: CONTACT INFO@COVERMG.COM These images and video shows the shocking aftermath of a Russian airstrike on a maternity hospital in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol on Wednesday (09March2022). According the governor of the Donetsk region said 17 people, including women in labour, were injured in the airstrike. He claimed the airstrike happened during an agreed ceasefire period designed to allow civilians to escape from the besieged southern Ukrainian city. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who is based in the capital of Kyiv, claimed children were buried in the rubble. In the grounds of the hospital there is a huge crater, estimated to be about 20ft deep and 30ft wide. Mariupol has been the scene of some of the most fierce fighting of Russia’s war against Ukraine to date – as it has held out against continued shelling and airstrikes from Russian forces. Civilians have gone without electricity for several days. It sits on Ukraine’s Seaof Azov coast – in a region largely in the control of Russian troops. -PICTURED: General View (Shocking Footage Shows Aftermath Of Airstrike On Maternity Hospital In Mariupol) -PHOTO by: Mariupol City Council/Cover Images/INSTARimages.com -51258083.jpg This is an editorial, rights-managed image. Please contact Instar Images LLC for licensing fee and rights information at sales@instarimages.com or call +1 212 414 0207 This image may not be published in any way that is, or might be deemed to be, defamatory, libelous, pornographic, or obscene. Please consult our sales department for any clarification needed prior to publication and use. Instar Images LLC reserves the right to pursue unauthorized users of this material. If you are in violation of our intellectual property rights or copyright you may be liable for damages, loss of income, any profits you derive from the unauthorized use of this material and, where appropriate, the cost of collection and/or any statutory damages awarded Featuring: General View (Shocking Footage Shows Aftermath Of Airstrike On Maternity Hospital In Mariupol) Where: Mariupol, Ukraine, Ukraine When: 09 Mar 2022 Credit: Mariupol City Council/Cover Images/INSTARimages.com 
**WARNING: IMAGE CONTAINS GRAPHIC CONTENT** Bodies are exhumed from a mass grave on the grounds of the St. Andrew and Pyervozvannoho All Saints Church in the Ukrainian city of Bucha, northwest of Kiev, on April 13, 2022. In the city of Kiev, where Russian forces are accused by Ukraine’s allies of committing atrocities against civilians, the European Commission President visited the mass grave of Bucha on April 8. Where: Boutcha, Kyiv, Ukraine When: 13 Apr 2022 Credit: Sadak Souici/Le Pictorium/Cover Images **ONLY AVAILABLE FOR PUBLICATION IN THE UK** 
– Mariupol, Ukraine -20220418- This video, published Monday (18April2022), shows Russian forces striking the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, Ukraine with heavy artillery. It was published by Mariupol City Council, who claimed there are at least 1,000 civilians in the underground shelters of the metallurgical plant who are women with children and the elderly. Additional video footage has shown women and children hiding in underground bunkers in what is claimed is the plant – one of the last areas of the city not under Russian control following a brutal month-long siege. -PICTURED: General View (Drone Footage Shows Russian Shelling Of Mariupol`s Azovstal Steel Plant) -PHOTO by: Mariupol City Council/Cover Images/INSTARimages.com -51428809.jpg This is an editorial, rights-managed image. Please contact Instar Images LLC for licensing fee and rights information at sales@instarimages.com or call +1 212 414 0207 This image may not be published in any way that is, or might be deemed to be, defamatory, libelous, pornographic, or obscene. Please consult our sales department for any clarification needed prior to publication and use. Instar Images LLC reserves the right to pursue unauthorized users of this material. If you are in violation of our intellectual property rights or copyright you may be liable for damages, loss of income, any profits you derive from the unauthorized use of this material and, where appropriate, the cost of collection and/or any statutory damages awarded Featuring: General View (Drone Footage Shows Russian Shelling Of Mariupol`s Azovstal Steel Plant) Where: Mariupol, Donetsk, Ukraine When: 18 Apr 2022 Credit: Mariupol City Council/Cover Images/INSTARimages.com 
September 7, 2022, Kharkiv, Ukraine: Personal belongings are saved in a pile as workers look through the rubble after shelling at a residential building during the Russia-Ukraine war in Kharkiv, Ukraine on September 7, 2022. Kharkiv is under constant threat of shelling. Where: Kharkiv, Ukraine When: 07 Sep 2022 Credit: David Ryder/ZUMA Press/Cover Images **ONLY AVAILABLE FOR PUBLICATION IN THE UK** 
**VIDEO AVAILABLE: CONTACT INFO@COVERMG.COM TO RECEIVE** This remarkable security video footage shows a Russian attack, believed to be a Kh-101 cruise missile, narrowly missing the glass pedestrian bridge in the city centre on Monday (10 October2022). The bridge is often unofficially called the Klitschko bridge in honour of Kyiv’s mayor, retired heavyweight boxing champion Vitali Klitschko. The bridge, opened by Klitschko in 2019, creates a shortcut on a tourist route along the right bank of Dnieper river in the city. It is 212m in length and 32m high, with the span connecting St Volodymyr Hill to the Arch of Freedom monument. It is often a popular spot for street performers and musicians. It is not known if there were any casualties from the attack. Klitschko has condemned the attacks on the city as acts of terrorism and has said they have disrupted and water and electricity supplies in parts of his city. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has also expressed outrage at the attack. Russia has launched a spate of missile attacks on civilian targets in Ukraine, including Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv and its neighbouring park, in retaliation for the destruction of the Kerch Bridge connecting Crimea with Russia over the weekend. Ukraine’s air force spokesman Yuriy Ihnat said Russia launched 83 missiles – and more than 43 had been shot down by air defences. The explosions caused by Russian missile strikes were heard in Kyiv, Khmelnytskyi, Lviv, Zhytomyr and Dnipro. Casualty figures have not yet been made publicly available, but are believed to be in the dozens. Where: Kyiv, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine When: 10 Oct 2022 Credit: Vitaliy Kim/Government of Ukraine/Cover Images **EDITORIAL USE ONLY. MATERIALS ONLY TO BE USED IN CONJUNCTION WITH EDITORIAL STORY. THE USE OF THESE MATERIALS FOR ADVERTISING, MARKETING OR ANY OTHER COMMERCIAL PURPOSE IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED. MATERIAL COPYRIGHT REMAINS WITH STATED SUPPLIER.** 
**VIDEO AVAILABLE: CONTACT INFO@COVERMG.COM TO RECEIVE** These images show the aftermath of an explosion overnight on 19 September 2022, which occurred at 00:20, when the Russian military shelled the industrial zone of the South Ukrainian nuclear power plant in Mykolaiv Oblast, a missile hit 300 metres from the nuclear reactors. Ukraine’s operator of the nuclear power stations Energoatom stated: “The shock wave damaged the buildings of the nuclear power plant, more than 100 windows were broken. One of the hydraulic units of the Oleksandrivska Hydroelectric Power Plant, which is part of the South Ukrainian power complex, shut down. Three high-voltage power transmission lines also shut down.” In a later post on Telegram, Energatom added: “The Mykolaiv region. At night, a missile fell 300 meters from the Pivdennoukrainsk NPP. There was a short-term power outage. Windows were damaged in buildings on the territory of the NPP. The invaders wanted to shoot again, but they forgot what a nuclear power plant is. Russia endangers the whole world. We have to stop it before it’s too late.” As of 9 am local time all three power units are operating normally. No power plant personnel were injured. Where: Oleksandrivska, Mykolaiv Oblast, Ukraine When: 19 Sep 2022 Credit: Energoatom/Cover Images **EDITORIAL USE ONLY. MATERIALS ONLY TO BE USED IN CONJUNCTION WITH EDITORIAL STORY. THE USE OF THESE MATERIALS FOR ADVERTISING, MARKETING OR ANY OTHER COMMERCIAL PURPOSE IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED. MATERIAL COPYRIGHT REMAINS WITH STATED SUPPLIER.** 
**VIDEO AVAILABLE: CONTACT INFO@COVERMG.COM TO RECEIVE** This video shows rescuers in the liberated southern Ukrainian city of Kherson singing their country’s national anthem on Monday (21November2022), while accompanied by violinist and serviceman Moisey Bondarenko. A social media post accompanying the video reads: “Our Anthem, as a symbol of strength, indomitability and unity of the Ukrainian people! Soaked in the blood, pain, and tears of a free and steadfast nation! Today it echoes on the ruins of unconquered Ukrainian Kherson. Houses and bridges are collapsing, but the Ukrainian word and song will live forever in our hearts.” Where: Kherson, Kherson Oblast, Ukraine When: 21 Nov 2022 Credit: State Emergency Service of Ukraine/Cover Images **EDITORIAL USE ONLY. MATERIALS ONLY TO BE USED IN CONJUNCTION WITH EDITORIAL STORY. THE USE OF THESE MATERIALS FOR ADVERTISING, MARKETING OR ANY OTHER COMMERCIAL PURPOSE IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED. MATERIAL COPYRIGHT REMAINS WITH STATED SUPPLIER.** 
EXCLUSIVE United States President Joe Biden walks with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky down the colonnade before meeting in the Oval Office of the White House December 21, 2022 in Washington DC. Credit: Ken Cedeno / Pool via CNP Where: Washington, District of Columbia, Vereinigte Staaten When: 21 Dec 2022 Credit: Ken Cedeno – Pool via CNP/DPA/Cover Images **ONLY AVAILABLE FOR PUBLICATION IN THE UK AND USA** 
03 February 2023, Bavaria, Pfreimd: A new German Army Leopard 2 A7V tank stands on the barracks grounds during the ceremonial handover for Tank Battalion 104. Tank Battalion 104 will gradually be equipped with Leopard 2 A7V main battle tanks over the coming months. The suffix 2 A7V refers to the 7th development stage of the Leopard 2 and the « V » stands for « improved. Photo: Daniel Karmann/dpa Where: Pfreimd, Bavaria, Germany When: 03 Feb 2023 Credit: Daniel Karmann/DPA/Cover Images **ONLY AVAILABLE FOR PUBLICATION IN THE UK** 
**VIDEO AVAILABLE: CONTACT INFO@COVERMG.COM TO RECEIVE** U.S. President Joe Biden has met with Ukraine’s President Zelensky in Kyiv. The American leader had previously announced a trip to Poland but made the surprise visit to Kyiv on Monday 20 February 2023. Welcoming Biden, Zelensky said: « Joseph Biden, welcome to Kyiv! Your visit is an extremely important sign of support for all Ukrainians. » During Biden’s trip to Kyiv, air raid sirens were heard, warning of a possible imminent air strike by Russia as Vladimir Putin continues his country’s invasion of Ukraine. Although the front lines are in the East and South of the country after Russian troops were pushed back from Kyiv by staunch Ukrainian resistance, air strikes regularly hit civilian infrastructure and homes across all of Ukraine. Biden’s visit comes as the U.S. and European countries are stepping up their military assistance to Ukraine – although Zelensky has asked for more help – including fighter jets – to improve Ukraine’s air defence. Where: Kyiv, Kyiv oblast, Ukraine When: 20 Feb 2023 Credit: Office of the President of Ukraine/Cover Images **EDITORIAL USE ONLY. MATERIALS ONLY TO BE USED IN CONJUNCTION WITH EDITORIAL STORY. THE USE OF THESE MATERIALS FOR ADVERTISING, MARKETING OR ANY OTHER COMMERCIAL PURPOSE IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED. MATERIAL COPYRIGHT REMAINS WITH STATED SUPPLIER.**