After 1,000 days of war, a makeshift memorial has grown in the heart of Kyiv with thousands of blue-and-yellow flags honoring soldiers who died defending Ukraine.

A thousand days of war in Ukraine have been captured in stunning images, many of them horrifying, some of them poignant, others uplifting. Since Russia’s all-out invasion of its smaller neighbour on Feb.

When Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, the conventional wisdom was that the capital, Kyiv, would soon fall and the rest of the country wouldn’t last long against a much larger enemy.