A Ukrainian soldier stands in a shell crater next to destroyed Russian military vehicles in a field near the southern city of Mykolayiv on June 12. The region is strategically important as Mykolayiv, located on the Black Sea coast, stands in the way of Russian forces trying to reach the larger port of Odesa.
Shells are seen around a tank at a position of Ukrainian service members in the Donetsk region on June 11. The U.S. has provided Ukraine with small arms and other military items.
A boy views the aftermath of Russian shelling that destroyed his school in Bakhmut on June 8. The school, located in Ukraine's Donetsk region, had 400 students before Russia's invasion.
— Photo by Serhiy Nuzhnenko / RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service
A Ukrainian soldier stands in a position during heavy fighting on the front line in Severodonetsk, the Luhansk region, Ukraine, Wednesday, June 8, 2022.
A supermarket in a shopping mall damaged by a Russian missile strike in Kharkiv on June 8. Amnesty says 606 civilians have been killed and 1,248 wounded since Russia began its invasion of Ukraine on February 24.