Located astride two major crossroads, Bakhmut, which had a prewar population of 70,000, has been almost completely destroyed during intense fighting. 27 Mar 2023.
A resident stands next to a car in front of a residential building heavily damaged in the course of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, in the settlement of Toshkivka, in Sievierodonetsk Raion in Luhansk Oblast, Russian-controlled Ukraine, 26 Mar 2023.
Residents fill up bottles with fresh drinking water brought into Chasiv Yar near Bakhmut, Ukraine, as they try to survive in a war zone with shortages of food and few if any basic services on 24 Mar 2023.
Russian rockets launched against Ukraine from Russia's Belgorod region streak across the sky at dawn in Kharkiv, Ukraine, early Friday, March 24, 2023.
A Ukrainian police officer stands in front of a partially destroyed building after an air strike in the town of Rzhyshchiv, in Ukraine’s Kyiv region on Wednesday, March 22, 2023.
A woman stands next to a shell crater in the ruins of the water supply station building destroyed by recent shelling in Donetsk, Russian-controlled Ukraine, March 22, 2023.