War in Ukraine. The horrors of war by Kherson Oblast

A plume of smoke rises during a fire caused by a Russian attack in Kherson, southern Ukraine, Saturday, Nov. 19, 2022.

Residents gathering at an aid distribution point receive supplies in downtown Kherson, southern Ukraine, Friday, Nov. 18, 2022.

People queue to receive food donations in Kherson, in southern Ukraine, on Thursday, November 17, 2022.

A destroyed armoured vehicle lies at the entrance of Kherson, southern Ukraine, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022.

A destroyed school on the outskirts of a recently liberated village outskirts of Kherson, in southern Ukraine, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022. The Russian withdrawal from the only provincial capital it gained in nine months of war was one of Moscow most significant battlefield losses. Now that its troops hold a new front line, the Ukrainian military said through a spokesman, the army is planning its next move.

Vitaliy Mysharskiy, 14, left, and his grandmother Tanya Babii sit in the yard of the family house in the recently liberated village of Kyselivka, outskirts of Kherson, southern Ukraine, Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2022. As violence escalates in Ukraine abuse has become widespread, according to the United Nations. In September Alesha Babenko and his 14-year-old nephew, Vitaliy Mysharskiy, were arrested by Russian soldiers who occupied their small village of Kyselivka, after taking photos of destroyed tanks and sending them to the Ukrainian army.

People charge their phones, try to connect to the internet and make phone calls, in central square in Kherson, Ukraine, Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2022. Waves of Russian airstrikes rocked Ukraine on Tuesday, with authorities immediately announcing emergency blackouts after attacks from east to west on energy and other facilities knocked out power and, in the capital, struck residential buildings.

The destroyed Antonivskyi Bridge over the Dnipro River after Russia's retreat from Kherson, Ukraine, November 14, 2022.

A view of the damaged Antonovsky bridge over the Dnieper river in Kherson, Ukraine, Sunday, Nov. 13, 2022. Residents of Kherson celebrated the end of Russia’s eight-month occupation for the third straight day Sunday, even as they took stock of the extensive damage left behind in the southern Ukrainian city by the Kremlin’s retreating forces.

Serhii Kalko shows a house burned by Russian soldiers during an occupation in the village of Blahodatne, retaken by the Ukrainian Armed Forces a day ago, in Kherson Region, Ukraine, November 11, 2022.