Time has published 100 images that best convey what the outgoing 2022 was like. Most of the photo – exactly a quarter – is dedicated to Ukraine.
Some photographs show the bodies of Ukrainians who died from Russian strikes on peaceful cities, residents of Irpin fleeing shelling, children dancing a waltz in front of the fortifications in Odessa, defenders of Kyiv playing checkers with Molotov cocktails. “This mood buzzed in the background, and sometimes quite loudly roared throughout 2022,” writes Time about their selection of photos.
Ukrainian soldiers examine the bodies of dead civilians, including Tatyana Perebiynis and her two children, who were fatally wounded by a Russian mortar shell while evacuating from Irpen, Ukraine, on March 6. A volunteer who helped the family of Linsey Addario also died. Members of the Territorial Defense Forces guarding a checkpoint play checkers with Molotov cocktails in the eastern outskirts of Kiev, Ukraine, March 5 Nicole Tung for Harper's Magazine The first patient admitted to Kyiv's main children's hospital after the Russian invasion was a boy named Semyon, photographed on February 28. His family's car came under heavy fire, killing his parents and sister. Later the boy died Maxim Dondyuk A Ukrainian soldier helps Yulia Pavliuk and her daughter Emma evacuate from Irpin, which Russian forces sought to capture during an attempt to surround the capital on March 5 Maxim Dondyuk Women mourn the death of their family member, conscript soldier Gasanbek Agabekov, who was killed in Ukraine on May 27. Photo taken by Aglobi, Dagestan, Russia, June 16. In Dagestan, family members of the victims meet regularly to mourn. The imam said that fifteen more men from the Hasanbek region died in the war. The republic that suffered the most casualties in the war in Ukraine is also one of the poorest in Russia Nanna Heitmann—Magnum Photos A victim of a mortar attack in Bucha lies in the kitchen, April 6 Maxim Dondyuk Mikhail Kulikov at the trial in Chernigov on August 4. A Russian soldier sentenced to 10 years in prison was found guilty of shelling a multi-storey residential building with a tank in the early days of the war in Ukraine. The second Russian soldier convicted in Ukraine since the beginning of the invasion Stanislav Krupar—laif/Redux Ukrainian emergency workers and volunteers carry an injured pregnant woman out of a shelled maternity hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine, on March 9. The child was born dead. Half an hour later, the mother of Evgeniy Maloletka also died—AP Schoolchildren rehearse for a concert at a cultural center in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, Ukraine, where the 2014 front line is only a few kilometers away, February 17 Nanna Heitmann—Magnum Photos Civilian volunteers receive weapons as part of a nationwide campaign to recruit, register and conscript people for the war with Russia in Fastov, Ukraine, February 25 Bendan Hoffman—The New York Times/Redux A field covered with shell craters near Izyum, Kharkiv region, Ukraine, September 13 Kostiantyn Liberov—AP Cadets practice an emergency during a lesson in a bomb shelter on the first day of school at a cadet lyceum in Kiev, Ukraine, September 1 Efrem Lukatsky—AP A farm in Vilkhovka, Ukraine, lost 80 cows and 30 pigs in two months of artillery shelling and Russian occupation. Photo from May 14 Carol Guzy—ZUMA The family of Ukrainian soldier Ivan Lipsky mourns at his coffin in Odessa, Ukraine, March 29. Lipsky was killed in Mykolayiv on March 18 during a Russian airstrike on the Ukrainian 36th Marine Brigade, killing more than 40 Ukrainian soldiers Salwan Georges—The Washington Post/Getty Images Bodies of Russian soldiers in a military vehicle on a road in Bucha, March 1 Serhii Nuzhnenko—AP Ukrainians under a destroyed bridge trying to evacuate across the river from Irpin on the outskirts of Kiev, Ukraine, March 5 Emilio Morenatti—AP Residents of Kyiv leave the city after rocket attacks by Russian armed forces on Kyiv, Ukraine, February 24 Children play on destroyed Russian military equipment in front of St. Michael's Monastery in Kiev, Ukraine on June 12 Fabian Ritter—DOCKS Collective A woman and a child look out of a bus window at the exit from Severodonetsk, Luhansk region, Ukraine, February 24 Vadim Ghirda—AP Exploded grain bin with grain still burning inside, Zaselye, Mykolaiv region, July 16 Wojciech Grzedzinski—The Washington Post/Getty Images Volunteers in a library in downtown Lviv, Ukraine, weave camouflage nets to send to soldiers on the front lines, March 7 Natalie Keyssar for TIME Sergei, the father of teen Ilya, cries over his son's lifeless body lying on a stretcher in a maternity hospital converted into a first-aid post in Mariupol on March 2. Ilya was mortally wounded Wednesday while playing football in Mariupol when shelling began amid the Russian invasion of the city. The explosion occurred on a football field near a school in the Azov city Evgeniy Maloletka—AP Civilians on an evacuation train in Pokrovsk, Ukraine, September 28. Nicole Tung—The New York Times/Redux Georgy Keburia says goodbye to his wife Maya and children as they board the train to Lvov at the Odessky train station, Ukraine, on March 5 Salwan Georges—The Washington Post/Getty Images School graduates dance in front of sandbags protecting the façade of the Odessa Opera House, June 15 Laetitia Vancon—The New York Times/Redux
