War in Ukraine. The horrors of war by Dnipropetrovsk Oblast

Men stand outside a house destroyed in the Russian rocket attack that took place Wednesday morning, October 18, Obukhivka, Dnipro Raion of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, central Ukraine.

Ukraine claims to have destroyed 29 Russian-launched drones and one cruise missile in Dnipro, Ukraine, on October 3.

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.

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.

Ukrainian firefighter observes the damage left behind by a missile strike at a building that housed a fire station and a laboratory that was struck overnight in a round of fresh strikes in Dnipro city.

An apartment block heavily damaged by a Russian missile strike in Dnipro, Ukraine, January 18, 2023.

Emergency personnel work at the site where an apartment block was heavily damaged by a Russian missile strike in Dnipro, Ukraine, January 16, 2023.

In this photo released by State Emergency Service of Ukraine on Monday, Jan. 16, 2022, a Ukrainian State Emergency Service firefighter carries a wounded woman out of the rubble from a building after a Russian rocket attack on Saturday in Dnipro, Ukraine, Sunday, Jan. 15, 2023.

In this photo released by the Dnipro Regional Administration, smoke rises after a Russian rocket hit a multistory building leaving many people under debris in Dnipro, Ukraine, Saturday, Jan. 14, 2023.

Ukrainian State Emergency Service firefighters work to extinguish a fire at the building which was destroyed by a Russian attack in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, Friday, Dec. 16, 2022. Russian forces launched at least 60 missiles across Ukraine on Friday, officials said, reporting explosions in at least four cities, including Kyiv. At least two people were killed by a strike on a residential building in central Ukraine, where a hunt was on for survivors.

Rescuers work at a site of private houses heavily damaged by a Russian missile strike in Dnipro, Ukraine, November 26, 2022.

A woman passes by a gas station destroyed by yesterday's Russian military strike in Dnipro, October 26, 2022.

Damage after a strike hit public transport depot in Dnipro, Ukraine, September 30, 2022.

A man stands in front of the gate of local market with heavily damaged shops after latest Russian rocket attack in Dnipro, Ukraine, Monday, Sept. 12, 2022.

A man stands in a market destroyed by a Russian missile strike in central Dnipro, Ukraine, September 11, 2022.

A Ukrainian service member stands inside a crater next to a residential house destroyed by yesterday's Russian military strike in Chaplyne, Dnipropetrovsk Region, Ukraine, August 25, 2022.

People stand next to a residential house destroyed by a Russian military raid, as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, in Chaplyne, Synelnykove Raion of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine, August 24, 2022.

Dmyto Shengur cleans rubble in front of the house which was damaged after Russian bombardment of residential area in Nikopol, Ukraine, on Monday, Aug, 22, 2022. In Nikopol, across the river from Ukraine's main nuclear power plant, Russian shelling wounded four people Monday, an official said. The city on the Dnipro River has faced relentless pounding since July 12 that has damaged some 850 buildings and sent about half its population of 100,000 fleeing.

A man cleans an apartment destroyed after Russian shelling in Nikopol, Ukraine, Monday, Aug. 15, 2022.

This handout picture taken and released by Ukrainian State Emergency Service on August 8, 2022 shows a lyceum in Velyka Kostromka, Zelenodolsk community, in Dnipropetrovsk region destroyed by Russian shelling amid Russia's military invasion of Ukraine.

Russian occupying forces shelled Nikopol again last night, firing more than 30 shells from Grad multiple-launch rocket systems: private houses have been destroyed and damaged, two people have been killed, and nine others have been injured. Source: Yevhen Yevtushenko, head of the Nikopol District Military Administration. Wednesday, 20 July.

A farmer collects fragments of Russian rockets that landed in his field 10 kilometers from the front line in the Dnipropetrovsk region of Ukraine on July 4.

Iryna Martsyniuk, 50, stands next to her house, heavily damaged after a Russian bombing in Velyka Kostromka village, Ukraine, Thursday, May 19, 2022. Martsyniuk and her three young children were at home when the attack occurred in the village, a few kilometres from the front lines, but they all survived unharmed.

The tail of a missile sticks out in a residential area in Yahidne, near Dnipro on April 12.

Devastation is seen from an air raid on a shoe factory in Dnipro, Ukraine on March 11.

People try to get on an evacuation train at Dnipro station on March 5.

DNIPRO, UKRAINE - FEBRUARY 28, 2022 - People crowd outside the volunteer and mobilization point set up in the Media Space building near the Dnipropetrovsk Regional State Administration, Dnipro, central Ukraine.

DNIPRO, UKRAINE - FEBRUARY 27, 2022 - People stay in a shelter after the first civil defence siren goes off in Dnipro, central Ukraine.

DNIPRO, UKRAINE - FEBRUARY 25, 2022 - A blood bag lies on the scales at the Dnipro Regional Blood Transfusion Station, Dnipro, central Ukraine.