War in Ukraine. The horrors of war by Sloviansk

A resident looks at the remains of an industrial building after a Russian rocket attack in Sloviansk, Ukraine, January 27, 2024.

A boy walks past a building damaged by shelling in Sloviansk, Ukraine, December 19, 2023.

A man walks past the remains of a house hit by a Russian military strike in Slovyansk, Donetsk region, Ukraine, on May 11.

Rescuers work at a site of a residential building damaged by a Russian military strike in Sloviansk, Donetsk region, Ukraine, April 14, 2023.

A man looks on in the aftermath of deadly shelling of an army office building in Sloviansk, Ukraine, March 27, 2023.

A man walks down a war-torn street in Slovyansk, Donetsk Region, Ukraine, December 12, 2022.

Local resident Nina, 72, stands near her house, ruined by the Russian shelling a month ago in central Slavyansk, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Saturday, Oct. 29, 2022. She keeps living in this house and collects wooden debris to make an outdoor fire for cooking.

Rescue workers clear the debris at the scene where a woman was found dead after a Russian attack that heavily damaged a school in Mykolaivka, Ukraine, Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2022.

Valentina Bondarenko reacts as she stands with her husband Leonid outside their house that was heavily damaged after a Russian attack in Sloviansk, Ukraine, Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2022. The 78-year-old woman was in the garden and fell on the ground at the moment of the explosion. "Everything flew and I started to run away", says Valentina.

A firefighter works to extinguish a fire after a Russian attack that heavily damaged a residential building in Sloviansk, Ukraine, on Sept. 7, 2022. It's at night that residents of the eastern Ukrainian city of Sloviansk are most afraid, when rocket and artillery attacks happen more frequently. Shells and rockets slam into gardens and apartment buildings, sending chunks of masonry and shards of glass hurtling through the darkness.

A man walks over the debris of a house that was heavily damaged after a Russian attack in Sloviansk, Ukraine, Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022.

Henadii Sydorenko carries a piece of plywood to cover the windows of apartments that have been damaged after a Russian attack yesterday near a residential area in Sloviansk, Ukraine, Monday, Sept. 5, 2022.

Broken windows of a damaged kindergarten following recent Russian shelling in Slovyansk, Donetsk Region, Ukraine, September 2, 2022.

A woman looks out from the damaged window of her apartment after a Russian attack in Sloviansk, eastern Ukraine, Monday, Aug. 29, 2022.

Workers drain water from a crater created by an explosion that damaged a residential building after a Russian attack in Slovyansk, Ukraine, Sunday, Aug. 28, 2022.

Ukrainian firefighters remove rubble in a factory destroyed by a Russian strike in the city of Slovyansk on August 27.

A woman drinks clean water from a canister she just filled up in the eastern city of Slovyansk, Aug. 16, 2022.

Ida Svystunova, 89, looks out the damaged room adjoining her apartment from a May rocket attack in Sloviansk, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Sunday, Aug. 7, 2022. Svystunova is one of only four people left living in the block and spends most of her day looking out the window. "I sit and wait for the end of this war or maybe the end of ourselves," she said.

Residents carry water collected at a nearby well while walking past the charred remains of a car from a May rocket attack in Sloviansk, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, Aug. 6, 2022. The echo of artillery shells thundering in the distance mingles with the din of people gathered around Sloviansk's public water pumps, piercing the uneasy quiet that smothers the nearly deserted streets of this eastern Ukrainian city.

A woman pushes a baby stroller near a building damaged during a Russian attack in Slovyansk, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, June 4, 2022.

People clean an area of a building damaged by an overnight missile strike in Sloviansk, Ukraine, Wednesday, June 1, 2022.

An eldery man walks by a damaged appartment building after a strike in the city of Slovyansk at the eastern Ukrainian region of Donbas on May 31, 2022, amid Russian invasion of Ukraine.