War in Ukraine. The horrors of war by Kharkiv Oblast

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.

Remains of MLRS shells used by Russian troops for military strikes on the city and collected by sappers in Kharkiv, Ukraine, November 29, 2022.

A resident walks past heavily damaged buildings in the Ukrainian town of Izyum, Kharkiv region, on November 25.

Ukrainian soldiers inspect damaged a Russian tank on a road near the recently retaken village of Kamianka, Kharkiv region, Ukraine, Sunday, Oct. 30, 2022.

A washing machine hangs from a destroyed house in the village where Myhaylo Yurkiv, 65, stayed in his bunker for six months during fierce battles under Russian occupation which destroyed his home and cut the village in two by the shelling of the bridge, leaving him now as the only person living on his side of the village, in Tsupivka, Ukraine, October 26, 2022.

Alexei walks through his home which was damaged in a missile strike near the Russian border in Kharkiv Region, Ukraine, October 21, 2022.

Fuel tanks damaged by Russian strikes in the recently retaken town of Kupiansk, Ukraine, October 18, 2022.

Local residents Natalia, 59, and her granddaughter Ilona, 9, stand on ruins of their house in Kupiansk Vuzlovyi, Ukraine, October 17, 2022.