War in Ukraine. Map of Ukraine. The horrors of war by region.

A protest in Kyiv’s Saint Sophia Square calling for an urgent exchange of POWs with Russia to free Ukrainians taken captive following the fall of Mariupol.

The battered townscape of Izium, where more than 5,000 houses and 120 apartment blocks have been damaged or destroyed. Dec. 16 2023.

A destroyed monument and a children’s playground in Chasiv Yar, near Bakhmut, eastern Ukraine, December 16, 2023.

Valentina Anatolevna and Tatyana Mikhailovna wait to pick up wood to heat their homes outside a court that was destroyed by an air strike in the front-line town of Lyman, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, on December 14, 2023.

A man walks next to a residential building damaged by a Russian drone strike in Odesa, Ukraine, December 14, 2023.

Local residents leave their apartment building damaged during a Russian missile strike in Kyiv, Ukraine, December 13, 2023.

A local resident walks in front of a building heavily damaged by Russian military strikes in Orikhiv, Zaporizhzhia Region, Ukraine, December 13, 2023.

Local resident Elena Rodik, 62, looks out of her damaged apartment inside a house hit by recent shelling in Donetsk, Russian-controlled Ukraine, on December 12, 2023.

A local resident stands next to a crater at a site of a Russian missile strike in Kyiv, Ukraine, December 11, 2023.

A person in a bulletproof vest stands on the edge of a crater left by a Russian rocket during a Russian missile attack on Kharkiv, northeastern Ukraine, on Friday, December 8, 2023.