War in Ukraine. The horrors of war by Donetsk Oblast

A destroyed monument and a children’s playground in Chasiv Yar, near Bakhmut, eastern Ukraine, December 16, 2023.

Valentina Anatolevna and Tatyana Mikhailovna wait to pick up wood to heat their homes outside a court that was destroyed by an air strike in the front-line town of Lyman, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, on December 14, 2023.

Local resident Elena Rodik, 62, looks out of her damaged apartment inside a house hit by recent shelling in Donetsk, Russian-controlled Ukraine, on December 12, 2023.

An aerial view of Avdiivka, eastern Ukraine, Donetsk Region, Ukraine, December 7, 2023.

Vendors remove debris at a local market following recent shelling in the course of Russia-Ukraine conflict in Donetsk, Russian-controlled Ukraine, December 6, 2023.

Rescues work at a site of a residential building heavily damaged by a Russian missile strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in the town of Novohrodivka, Donetsk region, Ukraine November 30, 2023. Rescuers on Monday, December 4, retrieved the body of an 8-year-old girl, five days after a Russian missile strike on Ukraine's eastern town of Novohrodivka, Ukrainian authorities said, bringing the total death toll to three.

A woman removes shards of glass from broken windows of a beauty salon, following recent shelling in Donetsk in the course of Russia-Ukraine war on Sunday, December 3, 2023.

Rescuers work to put out fire in a damaged residential building hit by recent shelling in the course of Russia-Ukraine conflict in Donetsk, Russian-controlled Ukraine, November 30, 2023.

In this photo provided by the National Police of Ukraine, rescuers work at the scene of a building damaged by shelling, in Pokrovsk, Ukraine, Thursday, Nov. 30, 2023.

In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, rescuers work at the scene of a building damaged by shelling, in Novogrodivka (Novohrodivka), a city in Pokrovsk Raion of Donetsk Oblast of Ukraine, Thursday, Nov. 30, 2023.