A devastating image of a baby being cradled by a soldier near a scene of total destruction has given a shocking glimpse into the human horror of the Russian invasion.
Vladimir Putin ’s troops are attacking Ukrainian cities with ever more shelling and as tanks move in the scenes of devastation are being beamed around the world with buildings razed to the ground.
New images from Irpin on the outskirts of Kyiv show dystopian scenes with collapsed apartment blocks and vehicles blown up, while people walk around dazed.
In one image a bridge can be seen destroyed from an attack with rubble, twisted metal and cables lying in water and mud.
In the foreground is a soldier carrying a baby, oblivious to the destruction all around them.
There are many other terrible images from the assault on the town while the pictures have been echoed from other cities around Ukraine.
Moscow's attack on Ukraine, the biggest on a European state since World War Two, has created over one million refugees, a barrage of sanctions and fears of a global economic hit and wider conflict in the West unthought-of for decades.
Ukrainians say their resolve is as strong as ever as fighting continues to rage with Russian troops besieging and bombarding cities in the second week of an invasion that has isolated Moscow - which says its attack is a "special operation."
Kyiv, in the path of a Russian armoured column that has been stalled outside the Ukrainian capital for days, came under renewed assault, with explosions audible from the city centre.
Europe's biggest nuclear power plant had also been seized.
The southeastern port city of Mariupol - a key prize for the Russian forces - has been encircled and shelled. There is no water, heat or electricity and it is running out of food after five days under attack, according to Mayor Vadym Boychenko.
"We are simply being destroyed," he said.
Putin's actions have drawn almost universal condemnation and many countries have imposed heavy sanctions as the West balances punishment with avoiding a widening of the conflict.
Moscow denies targeting civilians in Ukraine and says its aim is to disarm its neighbour, counter what it views as NATO aggression and capture leaders it calls neo-Nazis.
Ukraine and its Western allies call that a baseless pretext for a war to conquer a country of 44 million people.
More EU sanctions are coming, potentially including a ban on Russian-flagged ships in European ports and blocking imports of steel, timber, aluminium or coal, said Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney.
The United States is weighing cuts to imports of Russian oil and ways to minimize the impact on global supplies and consumers as lawmakers fast-track a bill that would ban Russian energy imports entirely.
In Kyiv's Borshchahivka neighbourhood, the twisted engine of a cruise missile lay in the street where it had apparently been downed overnight by Ukrainian air defences.
Ukrainian presidential adviser Oleksiy Arestovych said an advance had been halted on the southern port of Mykolayiv. If captured, the city of 500,000 people would be the biggest yet to fall.
Russian forces have made their biggest advances in the south, where they captured their first sizeable Ukrainian city, Kherson, this week.
Bombing has worsened in recent days in the northeast cities of Kharkiv and Chernihiv and Ukrainians have been fleeing west, many crowding into Lviv near the Polish border.
James Elder of the United Nations children's agency said doctors in Lviv were preparing a system to identify children in case of mass casualties.
"A green dot means fine over here, a yellow dot means critical support. They are learning a black dot means the child won't make it," he said.
