Emilia Budskaya, a local resident who decided to stay in the city breaks dead tree branches to heat her basement in the frontline city of Vuhledar, Ukraine, Saturday, Feb. 25, 2023.
Svitlana Gynzhul walks in front of a damaged house, as her village was located between front lines and devastated by shelling during the beginning of the war, in Luch village in Mykolaiv Raion, Mykolaiv Oblast, Ukraine, February 25, 2023.
Children pass shrapnel-scarred buildings in Mariupol on February 25, 2023. Thousands of civilians were killed during the Russian siege. Russia claims 3,000 civilians were killed, while Kyiv claims that more than 25,000 died.
A local resident reacts as she walks down an empty street near a building damaged by a Russian military strike in the front line city of Bakhmut, Ukraine, February 24, 2023.