War in Ukraine. The horrors of war by Kyiv

Serhii Kaharlytskyi cleans the rubble in his ruined home in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, Jan. 10. 2023. Serhii lost his wife Iryna Kaharlytska during the latest Russian attack on Kyiv's tranquil Solomianskyi district on Dec. 31. For Serhii Kaharlytskyi, a 42-year-old Kyiv carpenter, his ruined home’s kitchen stands at the center of his family’s traumatic memories of Russia’s war in Ukraine. Kaharlytskyi and his 10-year-old son had a narrow escape when a Russian missile landed outside on New Year’s Eve as they watched television together. Iryna wasn’t so lucky. She was in the kitchen preparing a meal. She didn’t survive.

A building damaged during a Russian missile strike in Kyiv, Ukraine, December 31, 2022.

Rescuers work at a site of a residential house damaged during a Russian missile strike in Kyiv, Ukraine, December 29, 2022.

Firefighters work at a site of critical power infrastructure hit during Russia's drones attacks in Kyiv, Ukraine, in a handout picture released December 19, 2022.

Parts of a drone at the site of a building destroyed by a Russian drone attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, December 14, 2022. The inscription reads "For Ryazan."

A woman passes by anti-tank hedgehogs in central Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, Dec. 12, 2022. Ukraine has been fighting with the Russian invaders since Feb. 24 for over nine months.

A police officer stands next to a part of a Russian cruise missile shot down by the Ukrainian Air Defence Forces in Kyiv Region, Ukraine, December 5, 2022.

A woman walks between anti-tank hedgehogs, which were installed to protect the city from the Russian troops, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, Dec. 1, 2022.

People use their mobile phone lamps to look at items at a sporting goods store during a power outage, after critical civil infrastructure was hit by a Russian missile attacks in Ukraine, as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continues, in Kyiv, November 26, 2022.

People wait in line to collect water, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, Nov. 24, 2022. Residents of Ukraine's bombed but undaunted capital clutched empty bottles in search of water and crowded into cafés for power and warmth Thursday, switching defiantly into survival mode after new Russian missile strikes a day earlier plunged the city and much of the country into the dark in winter.