War in Ukraine. The horrors of war by Kherson Oblast

An aerial view of flooding in Kherson after the Nova Kakhovka dam breach on June 7.

Local resident Tetiana holds her pets, Tsatsa and Chunya, as she stands inside her house that was flooded after the Kakhovka dam blew up overnight, in Kherson, Ukraine, Tuesday, June 6, 2023. Ukraine on Tuesday accused Russian forces of blowing up a major dam and hydroelectric power station in a part of southern Ukraine that Russia controls, risking environmental disaster.

Floodwaters reach the center of Nova Kakhovka, June 6, 2023. The Russian-installed mayor of the town said that the water had risen by 10 meters and will increase further.

People at a gas station damaged by a Russian military strike in Kherson, Ukraine, May 3, 2023.

Destroyed farm machinery and warehouse in Potomkyne, Kherson region, Ukraine, on April 25, 2023. Bankruptcy is looming for many Ukrainian farmers across the war-torn country who are struggling to seed crops amid widespread mine contamination in areas once occupied by Russian forces and rising costs associated with exports.

People receive meals from World Central Kitchen food truck on a street in Kherson, Ukraine, February 22, 2023.

A bus station damaged after a shelling in Kherson, Ukraine, February 21, 2023.

A destroyed Russian tank rusts near the Kovalyov brothers’ houses, near Posad-Pokrovske, Ukraine January 31, 2023.

Ukrainian servicemen remove a grad rocket in a damaged house after an attack in Kherson, Ukraine, January 29, 2023.

Suffering from cancer, Gennadiy Shaposhnikov, 83, rests in his partially destroyed home which was hit by Russian shelling last fall in Kalynivske, Ukraine, Saturday, Jan. 28, 2023.