One Year Since The Invasion Of Ukraine

The worldOne year since the invasion of UkraineThe women and children who left The lives of those who remained.

In the past year, the war has characterized Aftenposten's columns These are some of the most important images.

20-year-old Lena Bezus remembers nothing from the attack One moment she was standing in the coffee shop at the mall where she worked, the next she was lying in an ambulance, squinting through the blood and dust covering her eyes.

Over 1,000 people were inside the amstor shopping center in Kremenchuk, north-east Ukraine, when the attack took place on 26 June The vast majority managed to evacuate while the shopping center burned.

Photo: Gina Grieg RiisnæsTorbjørn Katborg GrønningVisual news leader 23/02/2023 12:23 Updated 24/02/2023 07:35 In the run-up to the invasion and in the time after, Aftenposten's photographers and reporters have been present in Ukraine, Russia, Poland and Norway and documented the everyday life of the people affected by the war A selection of these Aftenposten photos is on display at Aker brygge in Oslo until March 5.

In early February 2022, 130,000 Russian soldiers stood ready along the border with Ukraine How do you prepare to fight soldiers from a great power? Ukraine responded by mobilizing thousands of volunteers.

Students, pensioners and fathers of small children trained every Saturday to become guerrilla fighters in so-called territorial self-defense groups across the country Photo: Paal Audestad 33-year-old Anton Sidorov was killed by shrapnel in the head at the front in Donbas on Saturday 19 February.

Even before Russia invaded Ukraine, the war in the two breakaway republics in the far east of Ukraine had cost the lives of over 14,000 people Photo: Paal Audestad16.

February Ukraine prepared for invasion In the apartment of Ivan Diachenko (19), Evgenia Mikhnovska (18) and Kostia Bovtalyuk (18) in Kyiv, they sang along at the top of their lungs and hugged each other.

And the invasion? It did not arrive this Wednesday Photo: Paal AudestadSeveral hundred people flocked to Kyiv's main railway station Kyiv-Pasajjirskij on the morning of Thursday 24 February.

They had one goal: To get as far away as possible As soon as possible.

A few hours earlier, the city's almost three million inhabitants had woken up to the shocking news: Russia has invaded Ukraine Photo: Jan T.

EspedalEuropa welcomes millions of refugees from Ukraine But the vast majority are refugees in their own country.

Many have set their course for the western city of Lviv Photo: Jan T.

Espedal Am I going to die if I don't leave my home now? Ukraine's 43 million inhabitants have had to decide on that question Seven days after Russia invaded Ukraine, at least one million people had fled across the border.

Photo: Jan T Espedal A Polish policeman helped a woman at the Hrebenne border crossing on the border between Poland and Ukraine at the beginning of March.

Photo: Stein J Bjørge – I could see everything from the balcony.

The strange thing is that even then I didn't think it was a war, said Inya, who came from the port city of Mykolajiv on the Black Sea Aftenposten met her at a cross that stands along the road in Poland, just a few meters from the Ukrainian border, on 7 March 2022.

Photo: Stein J BjørgeThe largest refugee flow in Europe in 80 years brought Marja and Mikaela and her other two children in security on the Polish side.

A young Ukrainian mother with her children Everything they owned remained at home.

Photo: Stein J Bjørge Ukraine has over 100,000 orphans.

Before the war, they were scattered around over 500 orphanages across the country The 119 children from the orphanage in Zaporizhzhya were evacuated when the city was under attack.

The children were put on the train west, to Lviv Photo: Jan T.

Espedal Russian forces fought hard to gain control of the town of Makariv when they invaded Ukraine The Battle of Makariv was bloody, but Russian forces did not succeed in occupying the city.

How many were killed before the Russians withdrew in May is unknown But the car that picks up the bodies in the villages drove with the door open so the smell was not too much for those who did the work.

Photo: Jan T Espedal On the morning of 16 December, Aftenposten's correspondent heard a loud boom in Kyiv.

It turned out to be one of the biggest attacks since the start of the war The metro was stopped so people could use the stations, which are 100 meters underground, as bomb shelters.

Photo: Gina Grieg RiisnæsFive-year-old Arina waited ten hours at the last checkpoint out of Russian-occupied areas with her grandmother Valentina Fierce battles raged around them.

In the parking lot in Zaporizhia, Arina's mother was waiting Photo: Paal Audestad Between the pine trees outside Izium, at least 440 people are buried.

Whether they are soldiers or civilians is unknown At least one mass grave with 17 corpses has been found at the site.

How they died is not clear But several of the bodies Aftenposten saw were tied at the back and bore the mark of violent death and torture.

Photo: Jan T Espedal 22-year-old Blade, left, stuffed his fingers in his ears as he and his colleague fired a grenade launcher.

Blade and his fellow soldiers were closer to the Russian border than ever when Aftenposten met them in November - We become more motivated.

Especially when we know that we are protecting our country We are proud of ourselves, said the 22-year-old.

Photo: Gina Grieg RiisnæsThe Russian soldiers were gone from the village outside Kherson at the end of October Vovede's mother was killed here in the living room.

At the end of October, the family tried to fix their house so they could be here this winter, and so Vova's mother-in-law could come back from the hospital She was lying in bed in the right corner when the house was bombed.

The roof fell on her Photo: Gina Grieg RiisnæsAt McDonald's outside the National Arrivals Center in Råde, Inna Zakharchenko cried after she spoke to her husband on the phone.

He had to stay in Ukraine to fight against Russia Dasha Matiushenko consoled.

Photo: Martin Slottemo Lyngstad Ukrainians fleeing the horrors of war have to go here, behind the high, dense metal fences 90 percent are women and children.

The national arrival center in Råde in Viken is the first meeting with Norway for refugees arriving in Eastern Norway Photo: Ketil Blom HaugstulenIn Norway's smallest municipality, Utsira, the inhabitants marched in demonstration trains to bring refugees to the small island.

Anna Olekseienko and her daughter Sofia were among the ten Ukrainians who came from the bombed-out city of Mariupol and were welcomed with open arms Sofia's grandfather had remained in Ukraine, but the residents of Utsira banded together to bring him to Norway.

In the photo, Anna has picked up Sofia after her first day at kindergarten Photo: Monica StrømdahlOn Victory Day 9 May 2022, the Russians celebrated the defeat of Hitler's Germany in 1945.

There was a military parade in Moscow The biggest cheer was when the huge nuclear rocket "Satan 2" rolled past.

Ever since the war began, President Vladimir Putin has hinted at the use of nuclear weapons Photo: Per Kristian Aale The cemetery outside Krasnodar in Russia is simply called The New Cemetery.

At least 150 soldiers and officers who have been killed in the war in Ukraine are buried there Photo: Dan P.

Neegaard Aftenposten visited the town of Borodjanka on 6 April Despite great destruction, life went on.

Olga Lusenko wandered past the bombed out blocks of flats with a large pie in her hands - food she was going to give to an elderly lady who lives in the city - Those who did this should be lined up against the wall and shot, she told Aftenposten.

Photo: Jan T Espedal Six-year-old Maxim got cancer in 2021.

When Aftenposten met him and his mother just before Christmas, he was being treated at a children's hospital in Kherson It was bombed daily by Russian forces.

Maxim's mother, Kristina Naumova, said that once a day she had to lift her son out of bed and out into the hallway, because the bombing came so close Photo: Gina Grieg Riisnæs The enemy was 30 kilometers away.

Despite the fact that the front was so close to the field, Oleksandr and his colleagues continued to plow the soil on the outskirts of the village of Komyshuvakha in Eastern Ukraine When the Russians attacked, the farm worker took refuge under his tractor.

Photo: Paal Audestad The doctors concentrated deeply while operating on the soldier The man came straight from the front in Eastern Ukraine.

There he was shot in the head, half of his skull was crushed Photo: Gina Grieg RiisnæsMikhail Davidiv said goodbye to his son Ivan (7), his wife Svetlana and his mother in mid-October.

The seven-year-old thought he was going on an adventure In reality, he fled to Poland with his mother and grandmother.

Photo: Paal Audestad When Aftenposten met Aleksej Bida in January 2022, he was training for a possible invasion and working at a peace centre In November we met him again.

By then he had been a soldier for nine months Since February, he had suffered two concussions, seen friends killed and killed himself for the first time.

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