A woman refuses to be evacuated while firefighters of unit Phoenix and Police work to evacuate residents near the frontline in Siversk, Donetsk Region, Ukraine, February 28, 2023.
Emilia Budskaya, a local resident who decided to stay in the city breaks dead tree branches to heat her basement in the frontline city of Vuhledar, Ukraine, Saturday, Feb. 25, 2023.
Children pass shrapnel-scarred buildings in Mariupol on February 25, 2023. Thousands of civilians were killed during the Russian siege. Russia claims 3,000 civilians were killed, while Kyiv claims that more than 25,000 died.
A local resident reacts as she walks down an empty street near a building damaged by a Russian military strike in the front line city of Bakhmut, Ukraine, February 24, 2023.