War in Ukraine. The horrors of war by Donetsk Oblast

Leonid, 30, holds his son Sergei, 1, as they wait for boarding during an evacuation of civilians in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, Tuesday, May 3, 2022.

In this photo taken from video, smoke rises from the Metallurgical Combine Azovstal in Mariupol, in territory under the government of the Donetsk People's Republic, eastern Ukraine, Tuesday, May 3, 2022.

A man stands on the balcony of his apartment after a missile strike damaged a residential building in Ukraine's Donetsk region on April 30.

Ukrainian servicemen stand in a trench near the town of Lyman in the Kramatorsk district of the Donetsk Oblast on April 28, 2022.

A truck drives past the Donetsk Academic Regional Drama Theatre in Mariupol, Ukraine, following the March 16, 2022, bombing when the theater was used as a shelter, in an area now controlled by Russian forces in Ukraine, April 27, 2022.

Smoke over the Azovstal plant in Mariupol.

Smoke rises above Mariupol on April 18.

Mariupol, Ukraine, a southern port city on the Sea of Azov, has been the site of some of the heaviest shelling in the war.

AFP's Alexander Nemenov photographs the devastation in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol during an official tour organised by Russia's military. Russian troops are intensifying their battle to seize the strategic port city which they began bombarding in early March.

According to Ukrinform, the Mariupol City Council reported this on Telegram. "The houses of 84,000 Mariupol residents have been completely destroyed. This is 40% of multi-storey buildings or about 2 million square meters” the report says.