War in Ukraine. The horrors of war by Kupiansk

Firefighters work at a site of an apartment building damaged by a Russian air strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in the town of Kupiansk, Kharkiv region, Ukraine March 12, 2024.

A view shows a fire truck next to a building damaged following a bomb blast at a hospital in Velykiy Burluk, Kharkiv region, Ukraine, on February 1, 2024.

A bird's-eye view of the city of Kupiansk which has suffered from shelling on Wednesday. The city is 10 kilometres from the Russian-Ukraine war frontline. Russia has stepped up its attacks on this city near the frontline in recent weeks.

Rescue workers on Friday, Oct. 6, 2023, dig through the rubble at the site of a missile attack on the village of Hroza, near Kharkiv.

Rescues work at a site of a Russian military strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in the village of Hroza, Kupiansk district, Kharkiv oblast, Ukraine October 5, 2023. Ukrainian officials say at least 51 civilians (including 6-year-old) were killed in a Russian rocket strike on a village store and cafe in the eastern part of the country in one of the deadliest attacks in recent months.

Local residents walk past damaged shops and buildings in Kupiansk, Kharkiv region, Ukraine, September 29, 2023.

A destroyed bridge in Kupiansk, Ukraine , August 29, 2023.

War crime prosecutors at the cafe in the village of Podoly near Kupiansk, Kharkiv region, where two people were reportedly killed and another wounded by Russian shelling, August 26, 2023.

Oleksandr Pishchyk, a school director, stands in front of the school library that was destroyed by shelling in Kupiansk, Ukraine, on Wednesday, August 23, 2023.

Ukrainian servicemen ride atop of an armored personel carrier past a destroyed building in the town of Kupiansk, Kharkiv region, Ukraine, on August 17, 2023.

Red Cross volunteers help local residents to evacuate from the city of Kupiansk-Vuzlovyi in Kharkiv region, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kharkiv, Ukraine August 15, 2023.

Smoke and flames rise after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said a Russian-guided aerial bomb hit a blood-transfusion center, in the town of Kupyansk in northeastern Ukraine on August 5.

A local resident stands next to a museum building, heavily damaged by a Russian missile strike in Kupiansk, Kharkiv Region, Ukraine, April 25, 2023.

A destroyed hospital in Kupiansk, Ukraine, February 21, 2023.

At a bus stop opposite the golden-domed Orthodox church, 62-year-old Halyna waited with two large shopping bags. "I lived here under the Russian occupation," she said nervously, declining to give her surname. "But I'm afraid of another attack. I'm going to Kharkiv. My daughter is there. I want to stay there to be safe."

A local woman walks to the distribution point of humanitarian aid in front of housing that was damaged by Russian shelling in Kupyansk, in Ukraine's Kharkiv region, on December 28.

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.

A boy plays on ruins of his grandmother's house in Kupiansk, Ukraine, October 16, 2022.

Anton Sevrukov, 47, toasts bread over fire in a makeshift stove in Kivsharivka, Ukraine, Sunday, Oct. 16, 2022. As temperatures drop below freezing in eastern Ukraine, those who haven't fled from the heavy fighting, regular shelling and months of Russian occupation are now on the threshold of a brutal winter and digging in for the cold months.

A man drives by motorbike on a destroyed bridge across Oskil river during evacuation in recently liberated town Kupiansk, Ukraine, Saturday, Oct. 1, 2022.

A Ukrainian national flag flutters on a damaged building in the town of Kupiansk, recently liberated by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, in Kharkiv Region, Ukraine, in a handout picture released September 19, 2022.