War in Ukraine. The horrors of war by Donetsk Oblast

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.

Ukrainian servicemen and emergency personnel tend to victims in the aftermath of a rocket attack on the railway station in the eastern city of Kramatorsk, in the Donbass region in eastern Ukraine, on April 8, 2022.

Civilians leaving eastern Ukrainian cities in Donbass region are seen waiting for trains in the railway station in Kramatorsk, April 7, 2022.

Civilians gather at the Kramatorsk station to be evacuated from combat zones in eastern Ukraine on April 6.

A man carries a little girl as he arrives with other families to board a train at Kramatorsk central station as they flee the eastern city of Kramatorsk.

Debris covers the inside of the Donetsk Academic Regional Drama Theatre following a March 16, 2022, bombing in Mariupol, Ukraine, in an area now controlled by Russian forces, Monday, April 4, 2022. The bombing of the theater that was used as a shelter stands out as the single deadliest known attack against civilians to date in the Ukraine war.