Mariupol

People from Mariupol and eastern Ukraine disembark from a train at the railway station in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, April 7, 2022, to be taken to temporary residences in the region. About 500 refugees from the Mariupol area arrived in Nizhny Novgorod on a special train organized by Russian authorities. Some 2 million people from Ukraine have found themselves in Russia, many of them forcibly transferred and subject to human rights violations, an AP investigation revealed. (AP Photo)

Doctors help “Buffalo,” his nom de guerre, train with his new prosthetic limb at a clinic in Kyiv, Ukraine, June 17, 2022. Buffalo, a 20-year-old junior sergeant whose leg was shredded by mortar rounds, is among the wounded evacuated in daring helicopter missions during the last-ditch defense of the Azovstal steel complex in Mariupol. A junior sergeant, heon the trail of a Russian tank, aiming to destroy it with his shoulder-launched, armor-piercing NLAW missile on the last day of the invasion’s first month A fight-crew member took his hand and told him not to worry, they'd make it home."I told him, 'All my life, I dreamed of flying a helicopter. It doesn't matter if we arrive — my dream has come true,'" Buffalo recalled. (AP Photo / Natacha Pisarenko)

Yuliia Paievska, known as Taira, looks in the mirror and turns off her camera in Mariupol, Ukraine on Feb. 27, 2022. Using a body camera, she recorded her team's frantic efforts to bring people back from the brink of death. (Yuliia Paievska via AP)

Pregnant woman Mariana Vishegirskaya emerges from a maternity and children’s hospital that was gutted by shelling in Mariupol, Ukraine, March 9, 2022. Vishegirskaya survived the shelling and later gave birth to a girl in another hospital in Mariupol. The attack on the hospital, part of AP’s exclusive coverage from the besieged city, also figures prominently in ongoing joint investigation by AP and PBS Frontline, documenting potential Russian war crimes. (AP Photo / Mstyslav Chernov)

Dead bodies are dropped into a mass grave on the outskirts of Mariupol, Ukraine, March 9, 2022. Mass burials were carried out quickly during heavy shelling by Russian forces laying siege to the port city on the Sea of Azov. (AP Photo / Evgeniy Maloletka)

Serhii, father of teenager Iliya, cries on his son’s lifeless body at a maternity hospital converted into a medical ward in Mariupol, Ukraine, March 2, 2022. (AP Photo / Evgeniy Maloletka)