War in Ukraine. The horrors of war by Crimea

Ukraine’s “Storm Shadow” missiles hit the Russian Novocherkassk landing ship and trigger a huge explosion.

A plume of smoke rises over an ammunition depot explosion in Kirovsky district in Russian-annexed Crimea on July 19, 2023. Russian emergency officials in Crimea said more than 2,200 people were evacuated from four villages because of fire at the military facility.

A man carries a baby in a stroller up the stairs of the Dzhankoi train station in Crimea on October 21. About 25,000 people have left the region since October 18, according to Russia’s Interfax news agency.

Smoke rises over the site of explosion at an ammunition storage of Russian army near the village of Mayskoye, Crimea, Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2022. Explosions and fires ripped through an ammunition depot in Russian-occupied Crimea on Tuesday in the second suspected Ukrainian attack on the peninsula in just over a week, forcing the evacuation of more than 3,000 people.

This satellite image provided by Planet Labs PBC shows destroyed Russian aircraft at Saki Air Base after an explosion Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022, in the Crimean Peninsula, the Black Sea peninsula seized from Ukraine by Russia and annexed in March 2014. Ukraine's air force said Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2022 that nine Russian warplanes were destroyed in a deadly string of explosions at an air base in Crimea that appeared to be the result of a Ukrainian attack, which would represent a significant escalation in the war.

Rising smoke can be seen from the beach at Saky after explosions were heard from the direction of a Russian military airbase near Novofedorivka (Saky), Crimea, Tuesday Aug. 9, 2022. The explosion of munitions caused a fire at a military air base in Russian-annexed Crimea Tuesday but no casualties or damage to stationed warplanes, Russia's Defense Ministry said.