War in Ukraine. The horrors of war by Donetsk Oblast

The industrial town of Bakhmut in the north of the Donetsk region has been the scene of fierce fighting for months. Ukraine, December 25, 2022.

Ukrainian soldiers walk under a communications tower that fell from a strike during intense shelling in Yampil, Ukraine, December 28, 2022.

Volodymyr, 61, and Nataliia Bolias, 51, walk past an industrial building that hit in a missile strike during intense shelling on Christmas Day at the frontline in Bakhmut, Ukraine, December 25, 2022.

Local people buy and sell food ahead of Christmas and the New Year festivities in Mariupol, in Russian-controlled Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, Dec. 24, 2022.

A residential building damaged by a Russian military strike in Bakhmut, Ukraine, December 23, 2022.

Essential services like running water, electricity and heating have been disrupted across eastern Ukraine's Donetsk region. The remaining residents in the town of Lyman install firewood stoves inside their apartments and collect firewood to stay warm. December 23, 2022.

A destroyed tank sits abandoned in the eastern Ukrainian city of Sviatohirsk. Towns and villages in Donetsk have seen heavy fighting and shifting front lines in the past few months.

A man at a site of a school building destroyed by a Russian missile strike in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, December 22, 2022.

The destruction of the village of Bohorodychne is seen in an aerial view on December 20. Located nearly 120 kilometers northwest of the city of Donetsk on the right bank of the Siverskiy Donets River, the village was fiercely contested by Russian and Ukrainian forces.

A woman walks inside a hospital damaged by recent shelling in Donetsk, Russian-controlled Ukraine, December 20, 2022.