2015 in review

1/70 Oleg Barna, a member of parliament from the Bloc of President Petro Poroshenko, attacks Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk on Dec. 11 during the prime minister's one-year progress report on the performance of his government. (Volodymyr Petrov)

2/70 A couple enjoys the ice rink by the Arch of Friendship on Valentine's Day, Feb. 14. (Volodymyr Petrov)

3/70 Orthodox Christians celebrate Epiphany diving into the ice-cold waters of the Dnipro River on Jan. 19 in the Obolon neighborhood in Kyiv. (Volodymyr Petrov)

4/70 Two local residents hide in a basement room as Grad rockets are fired at a place nearby in the area of Debaltseve, a government-controlled rail hub north of Donetsk, on Jan. 20. (Anastasia Vlasova)

5/70 Relatives attend the funeral ceremony of 11-year-old Artem Lytkin, who was killed during the shelling in Debaltseve, Donetsk Oblast, on Jan. 21. (Anastasia Vlasova)

6/70 A child plays cards in the local Palace of Culture which is used as a bomb shelter in Mironovka village, near Debaltseve of Donetsk Oblast, on Feb. 17. (Anastasia Vlasova)

7/70 Yulia Novomlynets, 18, waits in line to receive humanitarian aid in the local Palace of Culture which is used as a bomb shelter in Mironovka village near Debaltseve in Donetsk Oblast, on Feb. 17. (Anastasia Vlasova)

8/70 A general view of kindergarten No. 9 which was shelled in Donetsk Oblast's Debaltseve on Jan. 22. (Anastasia Vlasova)(Anastasia Vlasova)

9/70 Local residents queue to receive humanitarian aid in Popasne village of Luhansk Oblast on Feb. 28. (Anastasia Vlasova)

10/70 Local citizens sit in a bus as they wait to be evacuated from Debaltseve on Feb. 3. (Anastasia Vlasova)

11/70 Ukrainian soldiers leave Debaltseve on a military vehicle on Feb. 18. (Anastasia Vlasova)

12/70 Residents of the frontline village of Opytne evacuate by bus. The village was shelled five times on Aug. 16 by Grad rockets fired by Russian-separatist fighters, the Ukrainian military said on Aug. 17. (Anastasia Vlasova)

13/70 A protester throws a Defense Ministry sign over the fence as firefighters extinguish the fire on Feb. 3 in Kyiv. (Volodymyr Petrov)

14/70 The body of a Ukrainian serviceman of the volunteer Azov battalion killed during the fight in Shyrokino on April 18, lies on the ground on April 19. (Anastasia Vlasova)

15/70 Fellow soldiers kneel to pay their last respects to Ihor Branovytsky during his memorial service at the St. Michael Cathedral on April 3. (Volodymyr Petrov)

16/70 A woman stands near honor guards on Maidan Nezalezhnosti as they commemorate the killed soldiers on Jan. 10. (Volodymyr Petrov)

17/70 A memorial ceremony takes place on Feb. 20 to commemorate the people slain during EuroMaidan Revolution. (Pavlo Podufalov)

18/70 Holes from shelling on the wall of a kiosk in Avdiivka on May 10. (Volodymyr Petrov)

19/70 Galina and her husband sit in their house in Gnutovo on May 26. (Volodymyr Petrov)

20/70 A woman resident of Avdiivka hangs washed clothes in front of a heavily damaged building in Avdiivka on May 10. (Volodymyr Petrov)

21/70 Ukrainian soldier walks on a road covered with bullet casings near the Ukrainian army blockpost about one kilometer from Russian-controlled Horlivka on May 12. (Volodymyr Petrov)

22/70 Maria, an inhabitant of Maryinka, shows her basement where she hides when shelling starts nearby. (Volodymyr Petrov)

23/70 A mother and her child by the burned city hall, hit by a separatist tank, in Ukrainian-controlled Dzerzhynsk on May 12. (Volodymyr Petrov)

24/70 Men gather hay in Ocheretyano not far from burning gas pipeline where a shell hit earlier in the morning on June 6. (Volodymyr Petrov)

25/70 Nina shows one of the rooms in her house destroyed by severe shelling which continued for 13 hours on June 3 in Maryinka during an attempt to take over the town. (Volodymyr Petrov)

26/70 People wait at the border crossing point in Stanitsa Luhanskaya in Luhansk Oblast to go to separatist-controlled Luhansk on Dec. 5. (Anastasia Vlasova)

27/70 A man speaks to a woman as he is about to leave for military service on Jan. 29. (Volodymyr Petrov)

28/70 A demobilized soldier gives a flower to a woman on a train in Kyiv on Sept. 6. (Volodymyr Petrov)

29/70 A police officer from Lviv Oblast sits on the train that passes Kramatorsk in Donetsk Oblast on May 9. (Volodymyr Petrov)

30/70 A flag of Ukrainian nationalists hangs on the wall at the Right Sector base near Dnipropetrovsk. (Volodymyr Petrov)

31/70 A Right Sector fighter hides in the bushes at a shooting range during tactical training on May 30. (Volodymyr Petrov)

32/70 An Azov soldier is seen along with killed comrades in a classroom at the base in Mariupol on May 25. (Volodymyr Petrov)

33/70 A woman grieves at the farewell ceremony on Maidan Nezalezhnosti on Jan. 10. (Volodymyr Petrov)

34/70 A soldier pays his last respects to Ihor Branovytsky during his memorial service at the St. Michael Cathedral on April 3. (Volodymyr Petrov)

35/70 Masked members of the Smerch group of bigots try to violently break up a gay march in Kyiv on June 6. (Pavlo Podufalov)

36/70 Children with wooden guns train to help their "wounded" comrades during tactical training in Azovets patriotic camp on Aug. 19. (Volodymyr Petrov)

37/70 A bike race for peace takes place on a central Kyiv street on May 30. (Kostyantyn Chernichkin)

38/70 Protesters dressed as zombies chant near the State Security Service building on June 22. (Kostyantyn Chernichkin)

39/70 European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker talks with President Petro Poroshenko on April 27. (Volodymyr Petrov)

40/70 Viktoria Syumar, member of the Ukrainian parliament, speaks with her colleague Serhiy Pashynsky during a session of the Verkhovna Rada on Jan. 27 in Kyiv. (Pavlo Podufalov)

41/70 Trenches are built on the beach in Mariupol on June 1 as the city expects an attack of Russian-separatist forces. (Volodymyr Petrov)

42/70 Self-defense activists have a tactical training on a Mariupol beach. (Volodymyr Petrov)

43/70 Volunteers learn how to shoot at an Azov Battalion training center on March 1 in Kyiv. (Volodymyr Petrov)

44/70 A woman watches as a chaplain of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church Kyiv Patriarchate says goodbye to his wife at the central train station in Kyiv as he prepares to leave for the war front on Oct. 2. (Volodymyr Petrov)

45/70 A soldier looks through a burned dugout, where one soldier was killed in a direct shell hit. (Volodymyr Petrov)

46/70 A man lies as he rests near Shypit waterfall in the Carpathian Mountains on July 8. (Volodymyr Petrov)

47/70 Right Sector fighters aim an anti-tank gun during their training at the Right Sector base on May 17. (Volodymyr Petrov)

48/70 A Right Sector fighter lifts up a barbell in barracks at the Right Sector base on May 18. (Volodymyr Petrov)

49/70 A demobilized member of Ukrainian Armed Forces embraces his daughters at Kyiv's main railway station following his return from the front lines on Sept. 9. (Volodymyr Petrov)

50/70 A member of Right Sector stands in line in a dining room at Right Sector base on May 16. (Volodymyr Petrov)

51/70 A worker rests in front of sinter plant during works on reconstruction of treatment facilities at Illich Steel and Iron Works in Mariupol on May 29. (Volodymyr Petrov)

52/70 A man prays in the mosque at Dehtyarivska Street in Kyiv on April 24. 
(Pavlo Podufalov)

53/70 A girl stands in one of the houses in Ukrainian traditional style at Krayina Mriy (Land of Dreams) ethnic music festival on June 21. (Volodymyr Petrov)

54/70 Daria, who left Ukraine in 1953 at age 12, sits at her office in East Village, New York where she sends packages to Ukraine, including humanitarian aid for the Ukrainian army and civilians. (Anastasia Vlasova)

55/70 Rolls of tank tracks sit before a stack of T-64 tanks stacked two-high at the storage yard of Kyiv Armored Vehicles Plant. (Pavlo Podufalov)

56/70 A man hits police officers with a stick on Hrushevskoho Street near the Verkhovna Rada on Aug. 31. (Volodymyr Petrov)

57/70 Women take photos of a nationalist rally in Kyiv on Oct. 14. Supporters of nationalist parties marched on Oct. 14 to mark the founding of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) in 1943. (Volodymyr Petrov)

58/70 People carry a banner with a portrait of Ukrainian nationalist Stepan Bandera (1909-1959) in Kyiv on Oct. 14. (Volodymyr Petrov)

59/70 A woman stands in front of "The Face of War" art work showing Russian President Vladimir Putin's portrait made out of bullet shells and exhibited in the M17 art gallery on Aug. 25. (Volodymyr Petrov)

60/70 A view of the Victory Square in Kyiv. (Volodymyr Petrov)

61/70 A man waits for a train at Palats Ukraina subway station in Kyiv. (Volodymyr Petrov)

62/70 Gennady Korban speaks with foreign journalists at his house during his house arrest in Dnipropetrovsk on Nov. 13. (Volodymyr Petrov)

63/70 Coal miners hit their helmets on the ground to make noise during their rally near the Presidential Administration in Kyiv on April 22. (Volodymyr Petrov)

64/70 One of the dozens of demonstrators for equal rights who gathered outside parliament on Nov. 12. (Kostyantyn Chernichkin)

65/70 Military chaplains take part in the tactical medic training in Kyiv on Dec. 15 organized by non-governmental organization "Patriots' Defense." (Kostyantyn Chernichkin)

66/70 A woman walks on Khreshchatyk Street as first snow falls on Nov. 29. (Volodymyr Petrov)

67/70 A girl lights a candle on Maidan Nezalezhnosti on Nov. 28 during a ceremony that commemorated those killed in the EuroMaidan Revolution. (Volodymyr Petrov)

68/70 A woman grieves after farewell ceremony for an Aidar Battalion volunteer killed during fighting in the east of Ukraine on January 10 in Kyiv. (Volodymyr Petrov)

69/70 Rada deputies scuffle with colleague deputy Oleh Barna (C) after he removed Ukraine's Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk from the tribune during the parliament session in Kyiv on Dec. 11. (Kostyantyn Chernichkin)

70/70 A couple kisses near St. Sofia Square on Dec. 21. (Volodymyr Petrov)