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A women stands outside her home that was destroyed by a Russian grad rocket, which she is now trying to repair, after extensive damage by Russian strikes also cut electricity and gas in the whole village, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Korobochkyne, Ukraine, October 17, 2022

Ukraine war anniversary: One year on

Published: February 24, 2023

As Ukraine marks one year since Russian troops invaded on February 24, 2022, millions of lives have been shattered.

Many have lost their loved ones, homes or livelihoods. Refugees who fled the war are struggling to rebuild their lives, while the world's poor are reeling from cost-of-living crises largely driven by the conflict. 

On the first anniversary of the Ukraine war, here are our stories on the impact.

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A woman holds a placard during a protest against the verdict restricting abortion rights in Poland
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Margaryta Bogatyrova, 27, stands outside Mallow restaurant in Borough Market, London, where she works as a waitress after fleeing her home in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region, July 9, 2022. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Emma Batha
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Former Ukrainian Olympic rower Tatyana Kolesnikova is pictured with her daughter at an amusement park in northern France. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Tatyana Kolesnikova
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Fourth-year medical student Toluwalase Kolapo-Bello, 21, who fled to Hungary after the war in Ukraine started in this undated photo. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Handout via Toluwalase Kolapo-Bello
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Svitlana Honcharova, 31, is pictured in a selfie taken with her sons Miron, 2, and Dmitry, 5, at their home in Sumy, northeast Ukraine, on March 25, 2022. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Svitlana Honcharova
Socioeconomic InclusionUkraine's stateless trapped in warzone with no proof they exist
Mohammad Rayyan Hamid (L), a student at Kyiv Medical University, poses with his friends in Kyiv, Ukraine. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Handout via Basit Hamid
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