War in Ukraine. The horrors of war by Donetsk Oblast

An elderly worker with a broom inspects a crater caused by a rocket strike on a house in Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Monday, Aug. 15, 2022.

Valentyna Kondratieva, 75, walks into her damaged home Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, where she sustained injuries in a Russian rocket attack last night in Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine. The strike killed three people and wounded 13 others, according to the mayor. The attack came less than a day after 11 other rockets were fired at the city.

A hotel hit by shelling in the Russian-controlled town of Svitlodarsk in the Donetsk region of Ukraine on August 11, 2022.

Ida Svystunova, 89, looks out the damaged room adjoining her apartment from a May rocket attack in Sloviansk, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Sunday, Aug. 7, 2022. Svystunova is one of only four people left living in the block and spends most of her day looking out the window. "I sit and wait for the end of this war or maybe the end of ourselves," she said.

Residents carry water collected at a nearby well while walking past the charred remains of a car from a May rocket attack in Sloviansk, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, Aug. 6, 2022. The echo of artillery shells thundering in the distance mingles with the din of people gathered around Sloviansk's public water pumps, piercing the uneasy quiet that smothers the nearly deserted streets of this eastern Ukrainian city.

An investigative committee officer stands inside a building damaged by shelling in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, Thursday, Aug. 4, 2022.

The eastern Ukrainian city of Druzhkivka has almost no drinking water, and wherever the residents can find it, people line up with canisters to gather it. Many parts of the Donetsk region are without a regular supply of water. August 04, 2022

Ukrainian State Emergency Service firefighters work after a rocket attack in Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine, on Aug. 3, 2022.

A firefighter works in a residential area damaged by a Russian missile strike in Kramatorsk in Ukraine's Donetsk region on July 30, 2022.

A firefighter extinguishes a fire at a market after shelling in Bakhmut in the Donetsk region of Ukraine on July 30, 2022.