A local woman walks to the distribution point of humanitarian aid in front of housing that was damaged by Russian shelling in Kupyansk, in Ukraine's Kharkiv region, on December 28.
Sunflowers, a beloved symbol of Ukraine, and a family of storks adorn the shattered walls of Irpin's Central House of Culture. With the Ukrainian government lacking the funds for widespread reconstruction, many residents are forced to restore their own homes and make use of any functioning public facilities.
Volodymyr, 61, and Nataliia Bolias, 51, walk past an industrial building that hit in a missile strike during intense shelling on Christmas Day at the frontline in Bakhmut, Ukraine, December 25, 2022.
Local people buy and sell food ahead of Christmas and the New Year festivities in Mariupol, in Russian-controlled Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, Dec. 24, 2022.
Essential services like running water, electricity and heating have been disrupted across eastern Ukraine's Donetsk region. The remaining residents in the town of Lyman install firewood stoves inside their apartments and collect firewood to stay warm. December 23, 2022.
A destroyed tank sits abandoned in the eastern Ukrainian city of Sviatohirsk. Towns and villages in Donetsk have seen heavy fighting and shifting front lines in the past few months.