War in Ukraine. The horrors of war by Kherson Oblast

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.

Trenches line the ground behind Stepan and his wife Tetyana’s house, in Posad-Pokrovske, Ukraine January 28, 2023.

A local resident runs past a burning house hit by the Russian shelling in Kherson, Ukraine, on the Orthodox Christmas Eve Friday, Jan. 6, 2023.

Local resident Klavdia, 82, stands near her house which was destroyed by a Russian military strike in Kherson, Ukraine, December 29, 2022.