Harrowing before-and-after photos have captured the deadly devastation inflicted on Ukraine in the last week as Russian forces continue to lay siege to cities across the country.
The Kremlin’s escalating shelling attacks on populated areas of Ukraine have destroyed buildings and left rubble strewn across streets and plazas.
An airstrike obliterated an administrative building in Ukraine’s second-largest city, Kharkiv, on Tuesday — with the huge blast leaving the central square piled high with debris and burned-out vehicles.
Rubble covers the ground in Svobody Square after the shelling by Russian invaders affected the Kharkiv regional state administrative building on March 1, 2022. Vyacheslav Madiyevskyy/ Ukrinform/Future Publishing via Getty Images
The same view of Svobody Square in June 2015. Google Maps
Firefighters work to contain a fire at the economics department building of Karazin Kharkiv National University, allegedly hit during recent shelling by Russia on March 2, 2022. SERGEY BOBOK/AFP via Getty Images
The economics department building at Karazin Kharkiv National University in June 2015. Google Maps
A view of a destroyed bridge on March 1, 2022, in Irpin, Ukraine. Anastasia Vlasova/Getty Images
The bridge in Irpin, Ukraine, in April 2018. Google Maps
Firefighters and emergency services in the vicinity of the bombed civilian building in a residential area on Feb. 26, 2022, in Kyiv, Ukraine. Diego Herrera/Europa Press via Getty Images
The civilian building in a residential area in May 2015. Google Maps
A destroyed jewelry shop after a missile launched by Russian invaders hit near the Kharkiv regional state administrative building in Svobody Square. Vyacheslav Madiyevskyy/ Ukrinform/Future Publishing via Getty Images
The jewelry shop near the Kharkiv regional state administrative building in Svobody Square in June 2015. Google MapsJust a day later, one of the buildings at the nearby Karazin Kharkiv National University was left burning after a missile struck.
Meanwhile, firefighters in Kyiv were left battling blazes earlier this week when strikes targeted a number of residential buildings.
And residential buildings and bridges were destroyed in Irpin, just outside Kyiv, on Tuesday and Wednesday as Russian forces inched closer to Ukraine’s capital city.
A view of the central square following shelling of the city hall building in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on March 1, 2022. AP Photo/Pavel Dorogoy
The same view of Kharkiv’s city hall in June 2015. Google Maps
Damages after the shelling by Russian forces of Constitution Square in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-biggest city, on March 2, 2022. SERGEY BOBOK/AFP via Getty Images
Constitution Square in Kharkiv in June 2015. Google Maps
Firefighters try to extinguish a fire at a bombed civilian building in a residential area on Feb. 26, 2022, in Kyiv, Ukraine. Diego Herrera/Europa Press via Getty Images
The civilian building in a residential area in May 2015. Google Maps
Bomb damage to the facade of a 10-story building on Feb. 25, 2022, in the Kharkivsky district of Kyiv, Ukraine. Laurent Van der Stockt for Le Monde/Getty Images
The 10-story building in September 2020. Google Maps
A residential building destroyed by recent shelling in the city of Irpin in the Kyiv region of Ukraine, March 2, 2022. REUTERS/Serhii Nuzhnenko
The residential building in Irpin, Ukraine, in May 2015. Google MapsIn addition to the destruction caused by missiles, Ukrainian officials say more than 2,000 civilians have died in the eight days since Vladimir Putin gave the orders to invade.
