A Ukrainian soldier carries a shell with a written message to the Russian army, in the front line position near Bakhmut, in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, Thursday, Oct. 27, 2022.
A house damaged by the Russian shelling is seen in Bakhmut, the site of the heaviest battle against the Russian troops in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2022.
A dog stands among debris of a school building destroyed by a Russian air strike in a village near a frontline in Mykolaiv Region, Ukraine, October 26, 2022.
A washing machine hangs from a destroyed house in the village where Myhaylo Yurkiv, 65, stayed in his bunker for six months during fierce battles under Russian occupation which destroyed his home and cut the village in two by the shelling of the bridge, leaving him now as the only person living on his side of the village, in Tsupivka, Ukraine, October 26, 2022.
People queuing up hold plastic bottles to refill drinking water from a tank in the center of Mykolaiv, Monday, Oct. 24, 2022. Since mid-April, citizens of Mykolaiv, with a pre-war population of half a million people, have lived without a centralized drinking water supply. Russian Forces cut off the pipeline through which the city received drinking water for the last 40 years.
In this photo posted by the mayor of Mykolaiv on his Telegram channel, a residential building is seen damaged following night shelling in Mykolaiv, Ukraine, Sunday, Oct. 23, 2022. A nearby 10-story residential building was also damaged. The windows and doors were blown out by debris and the blast wave, and the balconies were damaged. No victims reported.
Civilians disembark a ferry and head toward transport that will take them to Russian-occupied Crimea during a rainy day in Oleshky, in Ukraine's Kherson region, on October 23.