Please click on the images for glimpses of the battlerfront in Kharkiv, Kyiv, Mariupol and Yahidne as the Russian invasion entered its 55th day on Thursday, April 21, 2022.
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IMAGE: Ukrainian soldiers fire a rocket from an BM-21 Grad multiple rocket launch system in Kharkiv.
Photograph: Serhii Nuzhnenko/Reuters
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IMAGE: A Ukrainian soldier takes another shot with the BM-21 Grad in Kharkiv.
Photograph: Serhii Nuzhnenko/Reuters
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IMAGE: Ukrainian servicemen ride an BM-21 Grad rocket launch in the Kharkiv region.
Photograph: Serhii Nuzhnenko/Reuters
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IMAGE: A Ukrainian soldier takes position in Kharkiv.
Photograph: Serhii Nuzhnenko/Reuters
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IMAGE: A Ukrainian soldier prepares a hot drink at a military position in the Kharkiv region.
Photograph: Serhii Nuzhnenko/Reuters
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IMAGE: A Ukrainian soldier works with a theodolite ('a precision optical instrument for measuring angles between designated visible points in the horizontal and vertical planes', according to Wikipedia) in the Kharkiv region.
Photograph: Serhii Nuzhnenko/Reuters
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IMAGE: Searching for useful metal parts in a destroyed Russian tank outside Kyiv.
Photograph: Jorge Silva/Reuters
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IMAGE: Another view of the search for useful metal parts outside Kyiv.
Photograph: Jorge Silva/Reuters
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IMAGE: Pro-Russian troops watch as evacuees board buses to leave Mariupol as the fighting escalates in the southern port city.
Photograph: Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters
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IMAGE: Heorhii, a local resident, stands next to non-exploded mortar shells left during the Russian invasion in the village of Yahidne.
Photograph: Vladyslav Musiienko/Reuters
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IMAGE: A man jumps from a Russian T-72 tank destroyed during the invasion in the village of Yahidne.
Photograph: Vladyslav Musiienko/Reuters
Photographs curated by Manisha Kotian/Rediff.com
Feature Presentation: Ashish Narsale/Rediff.com
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