FILE PHOTO: Yana Bachek is consoled by her partner Yevgeniy Vlasenko and her mother Lyubov Gubareva, as she mourns over the body of her father Victor Gubarev, 79, killed by shelling during Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in Kharkiv, Ukraine, April 18, 2022. REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis
Reuters photographers witnessed 2022's most important events, from the horrors of war in Ukraine and other armed conflicts to unprecedented natural disasters and from the flight of refugees and migrants to protests around the globe.
They were in Ukraine's Bucha after Russian forces pulled out and saw bodies lying in the street. They were in the flood waters of Florida to capture the devastation wrought by Hurricane Ian. And they were in the streets of the South Korean capital Seoul as the emergency services recovered the dead after a crowd crush.
Others photographed the parched landscapes of drought-hit Somalia and the desperation of those who live there.
FILE PHOTO: Dr. Shelly Tien, 40, performs an abortion while a nurse assists with ultrasound during the procedure at Planned Parenthood in Birmingham, Alabama, U.S., March 14, 2022. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
They also captured the joy as anti-corruption protesters ran through the presidential palace in Sri Lanka's commercial capital Colombo and as Britons celebrated the Platinum Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth. Three months later, they captured the extraordinary pomp and ceremony of her funeral, and the outpouring of grief of mourners.
"It was nearly midnight and I couldn't sleep. Then I saw a breaking news alert that dozens of people were injured in a crowd crush in central Seoul... When I arrived, bodies were being taken out, injured people were getting help in front of me and Halloween party goers were walking past the injured... It was an unbelievable, surreal, chaotic situation. It took a lot of effort to control my emotions." Kim Hong-ji, Seoul
"From a distance I saw a Somali woman standing in the scorching heat. I walked towards her, wiping the pouring sweat off my head and face. I photographed her and asked her why she was standing there. She said her name was Habiba Bile and that all her 200 goats had perished. 'This dead one was the last animal,' she said. She was grieving, starving." Feisal Omar, Gedo Region, Somalia
FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden falls to the ground after riding up to members of the public during a bike ride in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, U.S., June 18, 2022. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz
"We headed to Bucha, a suburb just outside the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, behind a humanitarian convoy, when we heard the Russians had pulled out. I had expected to find destroyed military vehicles and dead soldiers. I had no idea of the horrors I would witness. I had no idea we would find the bodies of civilians lying out in the streets." Zohra Bensemra, Bucha, Ukraine
Click here for a selection of some exceptional Reuters pictures taken in 2022 along with the stories behind the shots, directly from the photographers who took them.
FILE PHOTO: A Palestinian woman gestures in front of Israeli troops during a protest over the killing of three Palestinian gunmen by Israeli forces, in Hebron in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, February 9, 2022. REUTERS/Mussa Qawasma
(Writing by Alexandra Hudson; Editing by Louise Heavens)
FILE PHOTO: Britain's Queen Elizabeth, Prince Charles and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, along with Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis appear on the balcony of Buckingham Palace as part of Trooping the Colour parade during the Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations in London, Britain, June 2, 2022. REUTERS/Hannah McKayFILE PHOTO: Rescue team members move a body at the scene where many people died and were injured in a stampede during a Halloween festival in Seoul, South Korea, October 30, 2022. REUTERS/Kim Hong-jiFILE PHOTO: Internally displaced Somali woman Habiba Bile stands near the carcass of her dead livestock following severe droughts near Dollow, Gedo Region, Somalia, May 26, 2022. REUTERS/Feisal OmarFILE PHOTO: Servicemen of the Ukrainian National Guard take positions in central Kyiv, after Russia launched a massive military operation against Ukraine, February 25, 2022. REUTERS/Gleb GaranichFILE PHOTO: Saul, 4, wipes the tears of his father Franklin Pajaro, after they were expelled from the U.S. and sent back to Mexico under Title 42, near the Paso del Norte International border bridge, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, October 17, 2022. REUTERS/Jose Luis GonzalezFILE PHOTO: Demonstrators protest inside the President's House, after President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled, amid the country's economic crisis, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, July 9, 2022. REUTERS/Dinuka LiyanawatteFILE PHOTO: Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic walks with his team after landing at Dubai Airport after the Australian Federal Court upheld a government decision to cancel his visa to play in the Australian Open, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, January 17, 2022. REUTERS/Loren ElliottFILE PHOTO: Jon Greene, defense advisor to Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), carries Kodak, the bear, to decorate the Senator's office on Capitol Hill to raise awareness about New Hampshire, while intern Roderick Emley takes calls, in Washington, U.S., June 7, 2022. REUTERS/Evelyn HocksteinFILE PHOTO: A man throws an object out of a car window next to the Border Force centre after a firebomb attack in Dover, Britain, October 30, 2022. REUTERS/Peter NichollsFILE PHOTO: A member of the public drags an activist who is blocking the road during a "Just Stop Oil" protest, in London, Britain, October 15, 2022. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls
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