War in Ukraine. The horrors of war by Dnipropetrovsk Oblast

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.

The city of Nikopol near the front line in the south is also regularly hit by Russian forces and half of its pre-war population of 100,000 people has left. The region has already been badly hit by an explosion at the Kakhovka dam on June 6 which caused significant flooding and killed dozens of people. Upstream from the dam, the Kakhovka reservoir – 100km long and up to 10km wide – is running low. Local residents fill their bottles with non-potable water at a water distribution centre in Nikopol.

Rescuers work at the site of a residential building heavily damaged by a Russian missile strike in Kryviy Rih on June 13. At least 10 people have been confirmed dead and dozens injured, according to city Mayor Oleksandr Vilkul.

Rescuers work at a site of a residential building heavily damaged by a Russian missile strike on the outskirts of Dnipro, Ukraine June 4, 2023.

Emergency workers rescue a man from debris of a residential building heavily damaged by a Russian missile strike on outskirt of the Dnipro city, Ukraine June 3, 2023.

A destroyed clinic after shelling in Dnipro city, central Ukraine, amid the Russian invasion. 26 May, 2023.