War in Ukraine. The horrors of war by Kharkiv Oblast

An aerial view shows residential buildings damaged by shelling in Izyum, Kharkiv region, eastern Ukraine, on February 21, 2023.

A destroyed hospital in Kupiansk, Ukraine, February 21, 2023.

Ukrainian doctor Yurii Kuznetsov walks through the destroyed surgery section of the hospital in Izium, Ukraine, Sunday, Feb. 18, 2023. Russian attacks have devastated Ukraine's health care system, raining down explosions upon hospitals and ambulances at a rate of nearly two a day for the past year, according to a study that attempted to document each strike.

At a bus stop opposite the golden-domed Orthodox church, 62-year-old Halyna waited with two large shopping bags. "I lived here under the Russian occupation," she said nervously, declining to give her surname. "But I'm afraid of another attack. I'm going to Kharkiv. My daughter is there. I want to stay there to be safe."

A family is seen outside of a destroyed apartment building in Izium.

A building of the National University of Urban Economy heavily damaged by a Russian missile, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in central Kharkiv, Ukraine, February 5, 2023.

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.