War in Ukraine. The horrors of war by Bakhmut

Snow-filled artillery shell craters on the frontline near Bakhmut, Donetsk region, Ukraine, amid Russia’s war.

A local resident take bottles with drinking water from humanitarian aid delivered by volunteers, at the side of a damaged residential building in the town of Chasiv Yar, Donetsk Region, Ukraine, November 8, 2023.

A Ukrainian policeman walks next to 84-year-old resident Mykola pushing his bicycle on a street in the frontline town of Chasiv Yar in the Donetsk region on Oct. 11, 2023, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Explosions are near-constant in the small town, whose buildings are filled with holes from shelling. It is a hub for troops heading to and from the front line, but locals still live here.

A wounded Ukrainian soldier is treated by Ukrainian military medics in a stabilization point in an undisclosed location near Bakhmut, eastern Ukraine, on September 29, 2023, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Houses and armoured vehicle destroyed during the fighting between Russian and Ukrainian armed forces are seen in recently liberated Klishchiivka, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Sunday, Sept. 24, 2023.

Soldiers hold flags as they speak in front of destroyed buildings in Klishchiivka, Ukraine, in a screengrab taken from a social media video released September 17, 2023.

That image was taken from a drone on Wednesday Sept. 6, 2023. Houses are seen destroyed during the fighting between Russian and Ukrainian armed forces are seen in Andriivka, Donetsk region, Ukraine. Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Maliar said this morning Ukraine’s General Staff officially confirmed that Ukrainian troops captured Andriivka, which is 10 km south of Bakhmut.

That image was taken from a drone on Wednesday Sept. 6, 2023. Houses are seen destroyed during the fighting between Russian and Ukrainian armed forces are seen in Andriivka, Donetsk region, Ukraine. Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Maliar said this morning Ukraine’s General Staff officially confirmed that Ukrainian troops captured Andriivka, which is 10 km south of Bakhmut.

A Ukrainian soldier passes a burning house after Russian shelling near the frontline in Siversk, in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region, on Friday September 1, 2023.

A view shows a building damaged by an aerial bomb during a Russian air strike in the town of Toretsk, Donetsk region on 29 May 2023.