War in Ukraine. The horrors of war by Pokrovsk

Rescuers work with heavy machinery at the site of a building destroyed during a Russian missile strike in Pokrovsk, Donetsk Region, Ukraine, August 8, 2023.

Rescuers work at the site where a building destroyed during a Russian missile strike in Pokrovsk, Donetsk Region, Ukraine, August 7, 2023.

After a rocket hit a residential area in Pokrovsk, Ukraine, a local man collects documents in his house at Jun 23, 2023. Russian missiles have left homes in ruins.

A man boards a train to Lviv during an evacuation effort from war-affected areas of eastern Ukraine in Pokrovsk, Donetsk Region, Ukraine, May 23, 2023.

The ruins of Maryinka with towering slag heaps from local coal mines in the background

A tank (center right) fires its gun during fighting in what remains of Maryinka on February 24.

Valentyna Mozgova, 55, lab medic stands inside a hospital which was damaged by Russian shelling in Krasnohorivka, Ukraine, Sunday, Feb. 19, 2023.

Rescue workers clear the rubble of the residential building which was destroyed by a Russian rocket in Pokrovsk, Ukraine, Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2023. According to local authorities, at least 2 people were killed and 12 injured.

A woman stands near debris of her house following Wednesday's Russian shelling, in Kurakhove, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Thursday, Dec. 8, 2022.

A damaged Soviet-era Ukrainian car "Zaporozhets" is seen next to a destroyed apartment building after Russian shelling in Pokrovsk, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Friday, Nov. 4, 2022.

Oleksander Zaitsev, 67, stands in front of the house where his friend was found dead after a Russian attack in Pokrovsk region, Ukraine, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022.

Flames rise from a fire following a Russian attack in Pokrovsk, Ukraine, Saturday, Sept. 10, 2022.

Grain fields burn, on the outskirts of Kurakhove, Pokrovsk Raion of Donetsk Oblast, eastern Ukraine, Thursday, July 21, 2022.

Damaged houses in the aftermath of a Russian rocket attack, on the outskirts of Pokrovsk, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, July 16, 2022.

Police members inspect a crater caused by a Russian rocket attack in Pokrovsk, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Wednesday, June 15, 2022.

Ukrainian firefighters extinguish a fire caused by a Russian missile strike in the settlement of Dobropillya. The Internal Affairs Ministry reported that 11 settlements in the Donetsk region were targeted on June 14, resulting in the destruction or damage of 60 buildings.

Workers remove pieces of a rocket from a crater after a Russian strike in Pokrovsk, eastern Ukraine, Wednesday, May 25, 2022. Two rockets struck the eastern Ukrainian town of Pokrovsk, in the Donetsk region early Wednesday morning, causing at least four injuries.