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

A Ukrainian man spent months digging through the wreckage of an apartment block to find the body of a close friend from his school days. Pavlo Holub lives in Izyum, and he carried out this work during the six-month Russian occupation of the town before it was liberated by Ukrainian forces in September. During this time, Holub says he was also ordered by a Moscow-appointed official to bury 17 Ukrainian soldiers in a mass grave.

A woman walks between anti-tank hedgehogs, which were installed to protect the city from the Russian troops, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, Dec. 1, 2022.

People fill up bottles with water near the Dnipro River after Russia's military retreat from Kherson, Ukraine, November 29, 2022.

Two men walk home from a local store as the sounds of incoming and outgoing artillery fire fill the air in Siversk, Ukraine, November 30, 2022.

Men connect a homemade light with a battery to illuminate the pitch ahead of a soccer game during a blackout in Irpin, Kyiv region, Ukraine, Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2022. For soccer lovers in Ukraine, Russia's invasion and the devastation it has wrought have created uncertainties about both playing the sport and watching it. For Ukrainians these days, soccer trails well behind mere survival in the order of priorities.

A damaged building in the Russian-occupied Azov Sea port city of Mariupol in southeastern Ukraine on November 29.

Remains of MLRS shells used by Russian troops for military strikes on the city and collected by sappers in Kharkiv, Ukraine, November 29, 2022.

Workers Alexander, 41, and Semen, 40, dig out a tractor tire from the rubble of a destroyed storage building at a grain processing center so they can use it for repairs even as their town continues to take incoming shelling in Siversk, Donetsk Region, Ukraine, November 28, 2022.

A woman walks past the debris of the destroyed house after a recent Russian air strike in Chasiv Yar on November 27. Shelling by Russian forces struck several areas in eastern and southern Ukraine as utility crews continued a scramble to restore power, water, and heating.

A view of damaged electrical wires after Ukrainian army retaken control from the Russian forces in Lyman, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine on November 27, 2022.