War in Ukraine. The horrors of war by Kharkiv Oblast

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.

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.