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

Cars destroyed by an apparent Russian cluster-munitions strike on the Ukrainian town of Lyman on July 8.

A residential building hit by a Russian missile strike the previous day in Lviv, Ukraine, July 7, 2023.

The city of Nikopol near the front line in the south is also regularly hit by Russian forces and half of its pre-war population of 100,000 people has left. The region has already been badly hit by an explosion at the Kakhovka dam on June 6 which caused significant flooding and killed dozens of people. Upstream from the dam, the Kakhovka reservoir – 100km long and up to 10km wide – is running low. Local residents fill their bottles with non-potable water at a water distribution centre in Nikopol.

Rescuers at the site of a residential building hit by a Russian missile strike in Lviv, Ukraine, July 6, 2023.

The destroyed Nova Kakhovka dam, Beryslav town and Dnipro River bank, dried-up after water level sharply dropped following the collapse of the dam, seen from the town of Nova Kakhovka in Kherson Region, Russian-controlled Ukraine, July 5, 2023.

An explosion in Makiivka, Russian-controlled Ukraine, seen in a screengrab from a social media video released on July 5, 2023.

Stork fly over a burning field near town of Snihurivka, Mykolaiv region on Jul 5, 2023.

Nadiya Efremova 86, resident of Afanasiyivka village, Mykolaiv region sits in her damaged house due to flood following damage sustained to the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant dam. July 5, 2023.

Viktor Grozdov, 77, sits in the bathroom of his damaged home on June 28 in the eastern Ukrainian town of Avdiyivka. The bathroom has become his refuge when the artillery shells rain down.

A family runs from an explosion in Pervomaiskyi, Ukraine. At least 43 people, including 12 children, were injured after a suspected Russian Iskandar missile hit the town of Pervomaiskyi in Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv region. Moscow has denied deliberately targeting civilians but its missiles and drones have repeatedly struck cities across Ukraine.