Just a couple photos that really grabbed me today.

A view of Mariupol after some of the shelling. Given the rural foreground, I’m pretty sure this shot is from the north, looking south toward the ocean. It could also be west looking east. The direction doesn’t matter.

The train station in Kharkiv, with people trying to get out. This photo showed up today, but given news reports, I kind of think this might have been from a few days ago. Like with the Mariupol direction question, it doesn’t really matter. What matters in both images is that this is something that has really happened.

(In case you were wondering, a train evacuation for Mariupol is not possible for a couple reasons. One, being at the end of the line, the only place to go is to Volnovakha and they’ve also under attack. Second, the railroad infrastructure in and around Mariupol was damaged in shelling last week, so trains can’t even run.)