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In pictures: Russia intensifies attacks on Ukraine

News imageEyePress News/REX/Shutterstock CCTV footage shows Russian combat vehicles on the central square of Kherson in the southern Ukraine. Photo: 2 March 2022EyePress News/REX/Shutterstock
CCTV footage shows Russian combat vehicles on the central square of Kherson on Wednesday night

Russian forces have seized control of the key port of Kherson in southern Ukraine, the first major city to be taken since Moscow invaded on 24 February.

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News imageREUTERS A military truck and tank are seen on a street of Kherson, Ukraine. Photo: 1 March 2022REUTERS
Kherson's mayor, Ihor Kolykhayev, said Russian troops had forced their way into the city council building
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News imageREUTERS Russian military vehicles are seen on a street of Kherson, Ukraine. Photo: 1 March 2022REUTERS
The capture of Kherson could allow Russia to create a base for the military there as it seeks to push further inland
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News imageGetty Images Destroyed building after the shelling by Russian forces in Kharkiv, UkraineGetty Images
Several cities have come under intense shelling. Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city in the north-east, has been under a fierce aerial assault for several days now
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News imageGetty Images A picture shows damage after the shelling by Russian forces of Constitution Square in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Photo: 2 March 2022Getty Images
This is how Kharkiv's Constitution Square - one of the symbols of the city - looks now
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News imageReuters An aerial view shows a residential building destroyed by shelling in the settlement of Borodyanka in the Kyiv region, Ukraine, on 3 March 2022Reuters
This aerial view shows a residential building that was destroyed by shelling in the town of Borodyanka, near Kyiv
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News imageState Emergency Service of Ukraine/Getty Images Smoke rises from damaged civil settlements after Russian attacks in Chernihiv, Ukraine on 3 March 2022State Emergency Service of Ukraine/Getty Images
Smoke rises from damaged buildings in the northern city of Chernihiv
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News imageReuters Children look out from an evacuation train from Kyiv to Lviv as they say goodbye to their father. Photo: 3 March 2022Reuters
Children look out from an evacuation train to Ukraine's western city of Lviv as they say goodbye to their father in Kyiv
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News imageAnadolu Agency / Getty Images People in Dnipro, eastern Ukraine, wait to depart by train to the country's western regions. Photo: 2 March 2022Anadolu Agency / Getty Images
More than 800,000 people have fled Ukraine since Russia launched a full-scale invasion
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News imageAFP A child looks out from a carriage window as a train prepares to depart from a station in Lviv, western Ukraine, on 3 March 2022AFP
A child looks out from a carriage window as a train prepares to depart from a station in Lviv, western Ukraine, en route to Uzhhorod, on the Slovakia border
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News imageAFP A Ukrainian soldier walks by a campfire north-east of Kyiv on 3 March 2022AFP
Ukrainian soldiers at a frontline, north-east of Kyiv (above and below)
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News imageAFP A Ukrainian soldier holds an anti-tank launcher north-east of Kyiv on 3 March 2022AFP
Ukrainian soldiers around Kyiv have been involved in fierce battles with Russian forces
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News imageReuters Workers from a local construction company weld anti-tanks obstacles to be placed on roads around Kyiv on 3 March 2022Reuters
Workers from a local construction company weld anti-tanks obstacles to be placed on roads around Kyiv
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News imageGetty Images Volunteers store food and supplies donated from Ukraine's western cities in Kyiv, Ukraine. Photo: 3 March 2022Getty Images
Meanwhile in Kyiv, volunteers have been gathering food and supplies donated from Ukraine's western cities

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