War in Ukraine. The horrors of war by Kharkiv Oblast

A view shows the Kharkiv Palace Hotel heavily damaged by a Russian missile strike, in Kharkiv, Ukraine December 31, 2023.

A crater is seen after a Russian missile strike at a compound of a public transport depot, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kharkiv, Ukraine December 20, 2023.

The battered townscape of Izium, where more than 5,000 houses and 120 apartment blocks have been damaged or destroyed. Dec. 16 2023.

A person in a bulletproof vest stands on the edge of a crater left by a Russian rocket during a Russian missile attack on Kharkiv, northeastern Ukraine, on Friday, December 8, 2023.

A local resident Mykola, 68, walks amidst the debris at a site of a farm that was destroyed last year by Russian military strike in the village of Kamianka in Kharkiv Region, Ukraine, November 8, 2023.

Emergency personnel work at a site of a Russian drone strike in Kharkiv, Ukraine, November 3, 2023.

A bird's-eye view of the city of Kupiansk which has suffered from shelling on Wednesday. The city is 10 kilometres from the Russian-Ukraine war frontline. Russia has stepped up its attacks on this city near the frontline in recent weeks.

The sun sets over a destroyed building in Izyum in Ukraine's Kharkiv region on October 24, 2023.

Damage after a missile strike on a postal distribution centre in Korotych, near Kharkiv, on Saturday, October 22, 2023.

A local woman reacts as she stands at the impact crater of a Russian S-300 missile that hit next to an apartment building in Peresichne near Kharkiv, Ukraine, October 7, 2023.