Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Saturday presented state awards to soldiers of the Rapid Operational Response Unit of the National Police.
These are just a few of the images captured on Day 21 of the war in Ukraine, revealing violence, displacement, and mourning.
People in the southern Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv, near the Black Sea, are braced for further Russian attacks, after airstrikes on Sunday in which nine people were killed.
Poland has taken in more than 1.8 million refugees from Ukraine - nearly all women and children - since Russian troops invaded and unleashed attacks on hospitals, schools, and residential areas.
Brent Renaud, an acclaimed filmmaker who traveled to some of the darkest and most dangerous corners of the world, died Sunday after Russian forces opened fire on his vehicle in Ukraine. Journalist Juan Arredondo was wounded.
Opera singers gathered in the center of Lviv in western Ukraine on Sunday to sing the country's national anthem.
Russian forces are continuing to pound the port city of Mariupol, which has endured some of Ukraine's worst misery since Russia invaded.
Russian State TV aired footage on Saturday which it claimed shows Ka-52 helicopters destroying military equipment belonging to the Ukrainian military in the Kyiv region.
Dozens of young orchestral musicians, instruments in hand, found safety in Hungary on Sunday after fleeing war in Ukraine.
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