War in Ukraine. The horrors of war by Donetsk Oblast

An elderly woman walks along a street against background of a graffiti depicting General Valery Zaluzhny, head of Ukraine's armed forces and writing 'God is with us and commander Zaluzhny' in the area of the heaviest battles with the Russian invaders in Bakhmut, Ukraine, Tuesday, Dec. 20, 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.

A residential building damaged by a Russian military strike in Bakhmut, Ukraine, December 18, 2022.

A local resident Natalia, 67, is seen inside her house that was destroyed by a Russian military strike in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, December 17, 2022.

Local resident Amiram stands next to his friend's house that was destroyed by recent shelling in Donetsk, Russian-controlled Ukraine, December 17, 2022.

A woman walks past an office building damaged by shelling in Donetsk, Ukraine, December 15, 2022.

Local resident Sergei stands amid debris while gathering his belongings in an apartment inside a building heavily damaged in recent shelling in Horlivka (Gorlovka), Donetsk Region, Russian-controlled Ukraine, December 13, 2022.

Pavlo, a Ukrainian soldier, stands on the roof of a university damaged from a recent missile attack in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, December 13, 2022.

Firefighters work at a local market hit by shelling in Donetsk, Ukraine, December 12, 2022.