In Kryvyi Rih, a nurse checks the wounds of Natalia Ponomareva, three days after her family's home was shelled by Russian forces in their frontline village of Vysokopillia in the Kherson region of southern Ukraine on May 5. She said the family escaped, while still under fire, to a Ukrainian army checkpoint and was then transported to a regional trauma hospital. Her daughter, 5, was seriously injured and just released from the intensive-care unit of another hospital. #

This aerial view shows flooded gardens and fields in Demydiv on May 2. To keep Russian armored columns at bay, Ukrainian forces released water from a nearby hydroelectric dam to intentionally flood Demydiv, a village north of Kyiv. The decision was effective, but efforts to drain the area are complicated. #

Olga Babich reacts after arriving from the village of Mali Shcherbaky at a registration and processing area for internally displaced people in Zaporizhzhia on May 6. #

Displaced Ukrainians take part in a class by experts on how to deal with explosives in Lviv on May 5. During the session, experts presented examples of explosives, mines, bullets, rockets, and other items to create awareness on how to proceed in case of finding such items. #

The Monument to the Grand Princess Olga in Kyiv is covered with sandbags, photographed on May 5. Following Russia's retreat from areas around the Ukrainian capital, some signs of normal life have returned to Kyiv as residents take advantage of shortened curfew hours, businesses reopen, and foreign countries promise to return their diplomats. #

Liudmyla, the wife of Ukrainian serviceman Ruslan Borovyk, and her daughters, Anna and Sofiia, react as they attend Borovyk's memorial service in Mikhailovsky Zlatoverkhy Cathedral (St. Michael's Golden-Domed Cathedral) in central Kyiv on May 4. #

A view of a destroyed church that, according to residents, was used by the Russian army as a munitions warehouse in Lukashivka, in the Chernihiv region, on April 27. #

Iuliia holds her dog, Chackie, upon her arrival at a reception center for displaced people in Zaporizhzhia on May 8. Iuliia drove her grandmother's friend from Kherson as thousands of Ukrainians continue to leave Russian-occupied areas. #

Liudmyla Lishtvanova, 99, who was a volunteer working alongside the Red Army as they fought Nazi Germany in Kharkiv in World War II, sits on her bed in a nursing home in Chaiky village on the outskirts of Kyiv on May 8. In the 1940s, she would pick up unexploded ordnance to help clear the streets for men and women who were fighting. "Even off the roofs of buildings," she recalled with a smile, adding, "we were fighting for our land." In early March, the home's 160 residents had to be evacuated to central Kyiv after Russian soldiers climbed over a perimeter fence to launch their drones. Residents were able to return to the home three weeks ago. For World War II veterans here, the current fight evokes memories of the past century's battles. #