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.