War in Ukraine. The horrors of war by Dnipropetrovsk Oblast

Children and their teachers wait in the basement of a kindergarten being used as a bomb shelter during an airstrike alarm in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, Sept. 14, 2023.

In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, emergency services personnel work to extinguish a fire following a Russian attack in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, Friday, Sept. 8, 2023.

Russia attacked the Nikopol area five times with heavy artillery on September 2, 2023, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Governor Serhiy Lysak reports.

Communal workers clean at the site of a area destroyed during a Russian military strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Dnipro, Ukraine August 24, 2023.

Communal workers clean an area at the site of a sports center destroyed during a Russian military strike in Dnipro, Ukraine, August 15, 2023.

A volunteer tests a demining device mounted on an excavator and capable of detonating anti-personnel and anti-tank mines near Kryvyi Rih, Zaporizhzhia Region, Ukraine, August 12, 2023.

A view of a site of an apartment building heavily damaged by a Russian missile strike in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, on July 31, 2023.

Firefighters work at a site of an apartment building damaged by a Russian missile strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Dnipro, Ukraine July 28, 2023.

Kaiman, a Ukrainian serviceman, shows a Victory sign at the ICU of Mechnikov Hospital in Dnipro, Ukraine, Saturday, July 15, 2023. A surge of wounded soldiers has coincided with the major counteroffensive Ukraine launched last month to try to recapture its land from Russian forces. Surgeons at Mechnikov Hospital, one of the country’s biggest, are busier now than perhaps at any other time since Russia began its invasion 17 months ago.

Neurosurgeon Nikita Lombrozo operates on a patient who sustained a shrapnel injury to the left part of the brain, at Mechnikov Hospital in Dnipro, Ukraine, on Friday, July 14.