KYIV, Ukraine — As Russia's invasion of Ukraine enters its third month, Ukrainians are assessing the damage. Despite an initial push to take Kyiv, the Russian forces backed off of the capital city, revealing the atrocities of the fighting left behind.

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A man stands outside a residential building in Kyiv that was struck by a missile last week. Residents returned to collect their belongings, clean up and board up the building's broken windows.

As spring arrives people in some areas of Kyiv begin to put their lives back together. Some people ride through the city on electric scooters while others are returning to their homes to see what remains. Even with moments of calm the city is still tense and the people live with the ongoing threat of possible airstrikes.

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Kostenko also found some jars of pickles undamaged in his locked basement.

Here are some photos from Kyiv and the surrounding suburbs after two months of war.

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Tulips bloom on Maidan, the city's central square, in Kyiv in April after Russian forces pulled back to focus on the eastern fronts in their ongoing invasion of the country.

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Dirt is piled in front of the Church of St. Andrew and Pyervozvannoho All Saints, in Bucha, a suburb of Kyiv, where a mass grave was found. Bodies were found in the grave and removed after Russian forces withdrew from the area.

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A temporary grave marker lies in the grass outside a residential building in Bucha, a suburb of Kyiv. The body was removed from the grave after Russian forces withdrew from the area.

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An empty grave outside a residential building in Bucha, a suburb of Kyiv. A body was removed from the grave after Russian forces withdrew from the area.

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Mykola Kostenko returns to his home in Moshchun, a village on the outskirts of Kyiv, after the Russains withdrew from the area. He found his house destroyed but watered his fruit trees, which were still flowering in his backyard, and fed several stray animals.

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A new grave is prepared in a cemetery in Moshchun, a village on the outskirts of Kyiv.

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Men figure out how to dismantle the last bits of a monument in Kyiv commemorating the friendship between Ukraine and Russia.

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