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Photos: 10 million displaced as eastern Ukraine braces for major Russian assault

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Published April 12, 2022 at 9:14 AM EDT
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April 12: A woman cries on a bus as people leave the Slovyansk central station in the Donbas region amid the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine. Ukrainian leaders of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions in the Donbas have asked civilians to evacuate to the west ahead of an anticipated Russian offensive in the area.

Updated April 12, 2022 at 2:33 PM ET

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April 11: Firefighters work to extinguish a fire resulting from a Russian attack at a house in Kharkiv, in eastern Ukraine.

Editor's note: Some of these images are graphic.

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April 11: People arrive at the central train station in Lviv, in western Ukraine, from Pokrovsk, in the east.

A senior U.S. defense official says the U.S. continues to see signs of Russian forces moving into eastern Ukraine for what is expected to be a large-scale offensive in the coming days.

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April 11: Abraham Jacob reads from the Torah during a prayer service at the Beis Aharon V'Yisrael Synagogue in Lviv, in western Ukraine.

This includes Russian command-and-control elements, support battalions, infantry and helicopters moving into the country's Donbas region, just across from its border with Russia.

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April 10: The door of a church in the town of Makarov, in the Kyiv Oblast, is damaged from shrapnel following a Russian attack in the previous weeks.

Over the last couple of weeks, Russia withdrew forces from around Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, retreating north into neighboring Belarus. Those forces are now moving to the east of Ukraine.

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April 10: People receive food from a church in the town of Borodyanka, about 40 miles northwest of Kyiv, Ukraine.

Here is what it looks like on the ground:

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April 11: Firefighters clear debris and search for bodies under the rubble of a building after receiving reports of a smell emerging from the area, hit weeks ago by a Russian attack in Kharkiv, in eastern Ukraine.

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April 11: Ukrainian soldiers fire assault rifles from a trench on the front line with Russian troops in the Lugansk Oblast.

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April 10: Cars drive near a bridge damaged by a Russian attack in recent weeks in the town of Makarov, in the Kyiv Oblast.

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April 11: Officials exhume from mass graves the bodies of civilians who died in Russian attacks in Bucha, a suburb of Kyiv, Ukraine.

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April 10: Oleg, 56, mourns for his mother, Inna, 86, who was killed during Russia's occupation of Bucha, a suburb of Kyiv, Ukraine.

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