Soldiers hold flags as they speak in front of destroyed buildings in Klishchiivka, Ukraine, in a screengrab taken from a social media video released September 17, 2023.
— Photo by Colonel General Oleksandr Syrskyi, Commander of Ground Forces / via Reuters
That image was taken from a drone on Wednesday Sept. 6, 2023. Houses are seen destroyed during the fighting between Russian and Ukrainian armed forces are seen in Andriivka, Donetsk region, Ukraine. Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Maliar said this morning Ukraine’s General Staff officially confirmed that Ukrainian troops captured Andriivka, which is 10 km south of Bakhmut.
Ukrainian military chaplain Ivan visits a bombed church with an infantry soldier (unseen) of the Black Zaporozhian Cossacks 72th brigade on the frontline near Donetsk. Ivan gives moral support to the soldiers fighting against Russian forces on the frontline. The brigade is named after the Ukrainian Black Zaporozhian Cossacks regiment, which fought against Russian Bolsheviks during the 1917-22 Russian civil war. September 15, 2023.
Children and their teachers wait in the basement of a kindergarten being used as a bomb shelter during an airstrike alarm in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, Sept. 14, 2023.
Ukrainian farmer Yakiv Marynchenko, 67, inspects the rubble of a destroyed grain storage on his farm, near the frontline town of Orikhiv, Zaporizhzhia region, southeastern Ukraine, 14 September 2023.
In this photo provided by the Odesa Regional Prosecutor’s Office, a burning tracks are seen in Odesa, Ukraine, early Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2023, following Russian drone attacks.
— Photo by Odesa Regional Prosecutor’s Office via AP
A view shows a residential building destroyed by a Russian military strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Orikhiv, Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine September 13, 2023.