War in Ukraine. The horrors of war by Kramatorsk

Damages inside an apartment building after a missile strike hit a residential area, in Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Thursday, July 7, 2022. Last week, the governor of the Donetsk oblast Pavlo Kyrylenko urged the province's more than 350,000 remaining residents to flee to safer towns further West, saying that evacuating the region was necessary to save lives and allow the Ukrainian army to better defend towns against a Russian advance. Many refuse to leave the city.

Seventy-year-old pensioner Valerii Ilchenko, who lives alone and is refusing to evacuate, watches television in his apartment, in Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine, Wednesday, July 6, 2022. Now a widower, Ilchenko says he still has no intention of leaving. "I don't have anywhere to go and don't want to either. What would I do there? Here at least I can sit on the bench, I can watch TV," he says in an interview in his single-room apartment.

Seventy-year-old pensioner Valerii Ilchenko, who lives alone and is refusing to evacuate, watches the news on his tv in his apartment, in Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine, Wednesday, July 6, 2022.

The kitchen of Seventy-year-old pensioner Valerii Ilchenko, who lives alone and is refusing to evacuate, in his apartment, in Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine, Wednesday, July 6, 2022.

Seventy-year-old pensioner Valerii Ilchenko, who lives alone and is refusing to evacuate, walks to his apartment, after filling out his daily crossword, in Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine, Wednesday, July 6, 2022.

Seventy-year-old pensioner Valerii Ilchenko, who lives alone and is refusing to evacuate, sits on his couch and bed in his apartment, in Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine, Wednesday, July 6, 2022.

Seventy-year-old pensioner Valerii Ilchenko, who lives alone and is refusing to evacuate, opens the windows of the kitchen in his apartment, in Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine, Wednesday, July 6, 2022.