AP PHOTOS: Day 23: A Ukraine of despair, fear, disbelief
A woman from Ukraine with her children sit in a car belonging to a volunteer, to take them to a hostel after arriving at Keleti station in Budapest, Hungary, on Friday, March 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Anna Szilagyi)
A cloud of smoke raises after an explosion in Lviv, western Ukraine, Friday, March 18, 2022. The mayor of Lviv says missiles struck near the city’s airport early Friday. (AP Photo)
Women walk inside a school damaged among other residential buildings following a bombing in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, March 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
A woman looks at residential buildings damaged by a bomb in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, March 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Rescuers evacuate a man from under the rubble of damage from shelling at the National Academy of State Administration building in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Friday, March 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Marienko)
A man from Ukraine holds his sons’ hands after arriving at Nyugati station in Budapest, Hungary, on Friday, March 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Anna Szilagyi)
A heavily damaged apartment is seen after a bombing in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, March 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
Zinaida Pivtsova, 75, who fled the war in Ukraine, wipes tears inside a sports stadium of a high school in Przemysl, southeastern Poland, where refugees take shelter, on Friday March 18, 2022. Pivtsova who is from Sloviansk city, at the eastern part of Ukraine, arrived in Poland 2 days ago. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
A man removes a destroyed curtain inside a school damaged among other residential buildings in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, March 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Olga plays with her daughter Vedeneya in an empty park in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, March 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
A police officer walks at the site of a bombing that damaged residential buildings in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, March 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
A woman arranges bunches of tulips on the pavement in Sophia square in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, March 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
A woman cries before starting to clean the site where a bombing damaged residential buildings in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, March 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
A worker sets up a billboard with the colors of Ukraine flag in Novoiavorisk, near Lviv, Western Ukraine, Friday, March 18, 2022. Ukrainian printing company Propet print has been installing patriotic-themed billboards in Lviv area since the start of the war. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
People who fled the war in Ukraine rest inside an indoor sports stadium of a high school in Przemysl, southeastern Poland, on Friday March 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
Anti-tank barriers are set up at a check point in Maidan Square, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, March 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
A woman from Ukraine with her children sit in a car belonging to a volunteer, to take them to a hostel after arriving at Keleti station in Budapest, Hungary, on Friday, March 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Anna Szilagyi)
A woman from Ukraine with her children sit in a car belonging to a volunteer, to take them to a hostel after arriving at Keleti station in Budapest, Hungary, on Friday, March 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Anna Szilagyi)
A cloud of smoke raises after an explosion in Lviv, western Ukraine, Friday, March 18, 2022. The mayor of Lviv says missiles struck near the city’s airport early Friday. (AP Photo)
A cloud of smoke raises after an explosion in Lviv, western Ukraine, Friday, March 18, 2022. The mayor of Lviv says missiles struck near the city’s airport early Friday. (AP Photo)
Women walk inside a school damaged among other residential buildings following a bombing in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, March 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Women walk inside a school damaged among other residential buildings following a bombing in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, March 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
A woman looks at residential buildings damaged by a bomb in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, March 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
A woman looks at residential buildings damaged by a bomb in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, March 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Rescuers evacuate a man from under the rubble of damage from shelling at the National Academy of State Administration building in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Friday, March 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Marienko)
Rescuers evacuate a man from under the rubble of damage from shelling at the National Academy of State Administration building in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Friday, March 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Marienko)
A man from Ukraine holds his sons’ hands after arriving at Nyugati station in Budapest, Hungary, on Friday, March 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Anna Szilagyi)
A man from Ukraine holds his sons’ hands after arriving at Nyugati station in Budapest, Hungary, on Friday, March 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Anna Szilagyi)
A heavily damaged apartment is seen after a bombing in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, March 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
A heavily damaged apartment is seen after a bombing in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, March 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
Zinaida Pivtsova, 75, who fled the war in Ukraine, wipes tears inside a sports stadium of a high school in Przemysl, southeastern Poland, where refugees take shelter, on Friday March 18, 2022. Pivtsova who is from Sloviansk city, at the eastern part of Ukraine, arrived in Poland 2 days ago. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
Zinaida Pivtsova, 75, who fled the war in Ukraine, wipes tears inside a sports stadium of a high school in Przemysl, southeastern Poland, where refugees take shelter, on Friday March 18, 2022. Pivtsova who is from Sloviansk city, at the eastern part of Ukraine, arrived in Poland 2 days ago. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
A man removes a destroyed curtain inside a school damaged among other residential buildings in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, March 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
A man removes a destroyed curtain inside a school damaged among other residential buildings in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, March 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Olga plays with her daughter Vedeneya in an empty park in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, March 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Olga plays with her daughter Vedeneya in an empty park in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, March 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
A police officer walks at the site of a bombing that damaged residential buildings in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, March 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
A police officer walks at the site of a bombing that damaged residential buildings in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, March 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
A woman arranges bunches of tulips on the pavement in Sophia square in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, March 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
A woman arranges bunches of tulips on the pavement in Sophia square in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, March 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
A woman cries before starting to clean the site where a bombing damaged residential buildings in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, March 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
A woman cries before starting to clean the site where a bombing damaged residential buildings in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, March 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
A worker sets up a billboard with the colors of Ukraine flag in Novoiavorisk, near Lviv, Western Ukraine, Friday, March 18, 2022. Ukrainian printing company Propet print has been installing patriotic-themed billboards in Lviv area since the start of the war. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
A worker sets up a billboard with the colors of Ukraine flag in Novoiavorisk, near Lviv, Western Ukraine, Friday, March 18, 2022. Ukrainian printing company Propet print has been installing patriotic-themed billboards in Lviv area since the start of the war. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
People who fled the war in Ukraine rest inside an indoor sports stadium of a high school in Przemysl, southeastern Poland, on Friday March 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
People who fled the war in Ukraine rest inside an indoor sports stadium of a high school in Przemysl, southeastern Poland, on Friday March 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
Anti-tank barriers are set up at a check point in Maidan Square, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, March 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Anti-tank barriers are set up at a check point in Maidan Square, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, March 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
A woman dressed in a dark blue winter coat and black hat presses a white cloth to her mouth as she stands in the street and stares up in disbelief at the blown-out windows and other damage inflicted by a bomb on a residential building in Kyiv.
A refugee sobs as she walks among rows of wooden-framed beds that have been set up in a high school sports stadium in Poland for refugees like her who have fled Ukraine. And a young mother peers forlornly through the window of a volunteer’s car that will take her and her children to a hostel in Hungary.
On Day 23 of Russia’s war on Ukraine, faces permeated with fear, uncertainty and sadness filled the frames of Associated Press photographs.
Two young Ukrainian boys wearing red, orange and blue winter knit caps each grip a hand of their father shortly after arriving at a railway station in the capital of Hungary. They look scared.
The ongoing devastation of the relentless Russian attacks is evident in other photos: A man with a large cut carved in his forehead is evacuated from under the rubble of an administration building that has been hit by shelling in the northeastern city of Kharkiv.
Another image shows a man removing a destroyed curtain from a school in Kyiv where several small beds are lined up under a large, glassless window. And another shows two women walking down the hallway of the school, the brightly colored plastic rings of a child’s stacking toy visible in a now doorless room littered with pieces of fallen walls.