UAPP, in partnership with the Kyiv Independent, continues its monthly feature—a selection of key photographs that most accurately capture the events, atmosphere, and challenges of another month in the full-scale war.

This selection encompasses not only major events but also everyday moments that, through the lens, become symbols of the era. Photographs that document pain, dignity, exhaustion, strength, and hope. Images that help us see and remember. Together, we are creating a visual archive of history as it unfolds right now.

Yuliia Yatlova with her eldest son, Illya, and youngest son, Sasha, during a power outage in Kharkiv, Ukraine, January 24, 2026.
Photo by Anna Zubenko / Frontliner

A servicewoman during the initiation ceremony of the 3rd detachment of the 144th Special Operations Forces Center in Kholodnyi Yar, Ukraine, February 3, 2025.
Photo by Kostiantyn and Vlada Liberov

Workers repair sections of the Darnytsia Thermal Power Plant in Kyiv damaged by Russian airstrikes, February 4, 2026. Recent Russian strikes on Ukraine's energy infrastructure have led to disruptions in electricity, heating, and water supplies for millions of people across the country as temperatures plummeted well below zero, sparking a new humanitarian crisis in the war-torn nation.
Photo by Roman Pilipey / AFP via Getty Images

Yevhen, a serviceman with a below-the-knee amputation who uses a prosthesis, trains on a climbing wall in Lviv, Ukraine, December 17, 2025.
Photo by Anna Zubenko / Frontliner

Flamingos in a warm, heated enclosure behind ice-covered glass at the Kyiv Zoo in Kyiv, Ukraine, February 4, 2026.
Photo by Mykhailo Palinchak

SES rescuers walk past a burnt-out private house following a massive Russian attack in a suburb of Kyiv, Ukraine, February 22, 2026. Russia launched approximately 345 aerial targets at Ukraine—50 missiles, including ballistic and "Zircon" hypersonic missiles, and nearly 300 drones. Over 100 homes were damaged, and 17 people were injured, including four children.
Photo by Vyacheslav Ratynskyi

Women hold portraits of missing military personnel during the return of defenders from Russian captivity in Ukraine, February 5, 2025. This day marked another prisoner-of-war exchange between Ukraine and Russia, during which a group of released fighters returned home.
Photo by Oleksandr Mahula / Suspilne Novyny

Children play near a tent camp set up by the SES at 11 Lavrukhina Street in Kyiv, Ukraine, January 31, 2026.
Photo by Yelizaveta Bukreyeva

Civilian volunteers Denys Khrystov and Bohdan Zuyakov, together with soldiers of the 28th Separate Mechanized Brigade, evacuate an elderly woman from Kostiantynivka, Donetsk region, Ukraine, February 13, 2025. The one-way journey covered over 8 kilometers through a dangerous area, so the woman was transported in a wheelbarrow. In the photo, they signal to military personnel passing in the direction of the city.
Photo by Kostiantyn and Vlada Liberov

Anna, a former prisoner now serving as a soldier under the call sign "X," travels to a firing range in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, December 2, 2025.
Photo by Nadiia Karpova / Frontliner

The selection was worked on:
Georgy Ivanchenko
Olga Kovalova
Irinka Gromotska