War in Ukraine. The horrors of war by Kharkiv Oblast

A woman carries her child as they evacuate from a residential building which was hit by a Russian rocket at the city center of Kharkiv, Ukraine, Monday, Jan. 30, 2023. Russian shelling killed at least five people and wounded 13 others during the previous 24 hours, Ukrainian authorities said Monday as the Kremlin’s and Kyiv’s forces remained locked in combat in eastern Ukraine.

An emergency worker walks in front of a residential building which was hit by a Russian rocket in the city center of Kharkiv, Ukraine, Sunday, Jan. 29, 2023.

A destroyed Russian tank covered by snow in a forest in the Kharkiv region, Ukraine on January 15.

Ukrainian firefighters work at the site of a local market heavily damaged by a Russian missile strike in Shevchenkove, Kharkiv region, on January 9.

Andriy Pleshan, 60, views the destruction near his cellar in Izyum, in eastern Ukraine, on January 2. The 70-square-meter cellar where he continues to live also provided sanctuary during World War II.

A local woman walks to the distribution point of humanitarian aid in front of housing that was damaged by Russian shelling in Kupyansk, in Ukraine's Kharkiv region, on December 28.

A war prosecutor observes collected parts of Russian rockets which were used to attack the city of Kharkiv, in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Thursday, Dec. 22, 2022.

Police and investigators inspect a crater at a site of an industrial area destroyed by a Russian missile strike in Kharkiv, Ukraine, December 15, 2022.

A residential building damaged by a Russian missile strike is seen near the town of Chuhuiv, Kharkiv region, Ukraine, December 2, 2022.

A Ukrainian man spent months digging through the wreckage of an apartment block to find the body of a close friend from his school days. Pavlo Holub lives in Izyum, and he carried out this work during the six-month Russian occupation of the town before it was liberated by Ukrainian forces in September. During this time, Holub says he was also ordered by a Moscow-appointed official to bury 17 Ukrainian soldiers in a mass grave.