War in Ukraine. The horrors of war by Donetsk Oblast

Damages inside an apartment building after a missile strike hit a residential area, in Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Thursday, July 7, 2022. Last week, the governor of the Donetsk oblast Pavlo Kyrylenko urged the province's more than 350,000 remaining residents to flee to safer towns further West, saying that evacuating the region was necessary to save lives and allow the Ukrainian army to better defend towns against a Russian advance. Many refuse to leave the city.

A man rides a bicycle past a building damaged in Russian shelling in Bakhmut, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Monday, June 20, 2022.

A man climbs out of a damaged residential building following shelling in Donetsk on June 20.

Police members inspect a crater caused by a Russian rocket attack in Pokrovsk, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Wednesday, June 15, 2022.

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 man examines the roof of a hospital damaged during shelling in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, on June 14.

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."

A woman looks on as grass burns after Russian shelling near the town of Bakhmut in the Donetsk region on June 12.

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.

A girl carries a dog as she walks past a house damaged from shelling in the Leninsky district of Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, Monday, June 6, 2022.