War in Ukraine. The horrors of war by Donetsk Oblast

A view of an apartment building, damaged during a heavy fighting, in Mariupol, in Russian-controlled Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023.

An ice arena destroyed from a missile strike in Druzhkivka, Ukraine, January 4, 2023.

A man watches workers removing the debris of a destroyed building assumed to be a vocational college used as temporary accommodation for Russian soldiers in Makiivka, Ukraine, January 3, 2023.

A local resident walks an empty street near destroyed vehicles in the village of Torske, Donetsk Region, Ukraine, December 30, 2022.

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.

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.