Ukrainian military doctors treat an injured comrade at a hospital in Donetsk region, Ukraine, Monday, January 9, 2023.
Photographers covering the war in Ukraine have time and again shown the world its disastrous cost: a wounded pregnant woman is carried on a stretcher, a father bids farewell through a train window to his fleeing wife and son, dozens of people sheltered under a broken bridge.
However, there are thousands of heartbreaking images that audiences have never seen.
Natali Sevriukova is overwhelmed with emotion as she stands in front of her destroyed building after a rocket attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, February 25, 2022. A hand-drawn portrait of Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin is seen among the rubble on the floor of a classroom in school number 23, destroyed after a Russian attack in the second half of July, in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, Saturday, August 27, 2022. .
Digital technology has made it easier than ever to take more photos and distribute them in an instant, forcing the media to be even more selective about what gets published. Ukrainian photographers can take as many photos in a week as they would in a whole year of another war in Europe, that of Bosnia.
Some photos are rejected because the composition is wrong or the focus is out of focus. But many powerful images never reach the public simply because, under constant pressure of deadlines, another was chosen instead.
This is a selection of images that were not published by The Associated Press when taken. Months later, the photographers have reviewed their work and picked which ones they think are worth seeing.
A woman holds her newborn baby in the basement of a maternity hospital used as a bomb shelter during an air raid in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 2, 2022.
Remains of victims and the fuselage of a Russian military helicopter are seen on the ground near Makariv, near kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, April 9, 2022.
People attempt to climb the stairs after a last-minute change to the departure platform of a train bound for Lviv in Kiev, Ukraine, Monday, February 28, 2022.
A woman who fled a nearby town looks out of a church window in Bashtanka, Ukraine’s Mykolaiv district, Thursday, March 31, 2022.
Lidia Mariukha, 79, right, cries as her husband, Viktor, 84, is helped out of bed by members of the aid organization Refugease as they evacuate their home in Kramatorsk, in the region from Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, on Tuesday, August 2, 2022.
As the sound of nearby artillery is heard, several people flee Irpin, on the outskirts of kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, March 7, 2022.
A Ukrainian military chaplain is seen standing next to a destroyed bridge in Irpin, on the outskirts of kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 9, 2022.
The body of a man killed in a Russian shelling is seen on a street in a residential area of Kharkiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, April 19, 2022.
Medical workers tend to an injured woman in the hallway of a hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine, Friday, March 11, 2022.
Young people gather in a circle as they rehearse a performance near a building damaged by Russian attacks in Borodyanka, on the outskirts of Kiev, Ukraine, Tuesday, June 21, 2022.
A woman is carried downstairs from her home during an evacuation by volunteers from the charity group Vostok SOS in Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine, Thursday, May 26, 2022.
The body of a woman killed in a Russian attack is seen under a thermal blanket before being transferred to a morgue in Kherson, southern Ukraine, Friday, November 25, 2022.
People who fled Mariupol, some from the Azovstal steelworks, arrive by bus at a reception center for displaced people in Zaporizhia, Ukraine, Sunday, May 8, 2022.
As the sound of artillery echoes nearby, a Ukrainian soldier crouches and several people flee Irpin, outside Kiev, Ukraine, Monday, March 7, 2022.
Elena cries over the body of her husband, Alexey, who was killed in shell attacks in Kharkiv, eastern Ukraine, Thursday, May 26, 2022.
Unidentified graves of Ukrainian civilians and soldiers are exhumed at a cemetery in the newly recaptured area of Izium, Ukraine, Monday, September 19, 2022.
Vasyl Moiseienko, a pensioner, carries fresh bread as an elderly woman awaits delivery at a store in Dyliivka, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, August 20, 2022.
A boy looks up at a building damaged by a Russian army attack in Borodyanka on the outskirts of kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, May 31, 2022.
An injured woman is seen on the ground on a sidewalk during a Russian bombardment in Kharkiv, Sunday, April 17, 2022.
People who fled from villages attacked by the Russian army hide in the basement of a church in Bashtanka, Mykolaiv district, Ukraine, Thursday, March 31, 2022.
Children sit around a small table with food they received from a free food drive in Bucha, on the outskirts of Kiev, Ukraine, Friday, April 8, 2022. Graffiti written by neighbors on the wall in the background say “Children” to inform the Russian military that many children live in the building.
The bodies of 11 Russian soldiers are seen on the ground in the village of Vilkhivka, recently retaken by Ukrainian forces, near Kharkiv, Ukraine, Monday, May 9, 2022.
Oleksandr Baklan, 60, shows a head injury in the kitchen of his home in Chornobaivka, Kherson region, Ukraine, Sunday, December 11, 2022.
One of four bodies, including the city’s mayor and his family, is seen laid out in a mass grave in Motyzhyn, near Kiev, Ukraine, April 4, 2022, after Russian forces were forced out of the area by Ukrainian forces
Effigies of Russian soldiers are seen hanging from a roadblock in Kharkiv region, Ukraine, Saturday, July 23, 2022.
(with information and images from AP)
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