A group of children walks past the remains of a missile strike. Bakhmut is located 55 kilometers southwest of the twin cities of Lysychansk and Syevyerodonetsk, where fierce military clashes are taking place, which Kyiv has described as "one of the most brutal battles in and for Europe."
Ukrainian firefighters extinguish a fire caused by a Russian missile strike in the settlement of Dobropillya. The Internal Affairs Ministry reported that 11 settlements in the Donetsk region were targeted on June 14, resulting in the destruction or damage of 60 buildings.
A boy views the aftermath of Russian shelling that destroyed his school in Bakhmut on June 8. The school, located in Ukraine's Donetsk region, had 400 students before Russia's invasion.
— Photo by Serhiy Nuzhnenko / RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service
Local residents stand at a damaged the shelling apartment building in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, Sunday, June 5, 2022. Five civilians were killed and 20 were injured Saturday as a result of multiple explosions close to the city of Donetsk.