Ukrainian residents cross a destroyed bridge in order to collect food distributed by an NGO, in Bohorodychne, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, on August 6, 2023. The village of Bohorodychne was one of the frontline towns liberated in September, and some residents have begun to return, despite the lack of electricity or water that renders them reliant on humanitarian aid. #

A drone flies during testing of new military equipment, including FPV drones, by soldiers from the 24th Separate Mechanized Brigade in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, on August 3, 2023. #

The body of a Russian soldier lies near a destroyed Russian tank near the front line in the newly liberated village of Storozheve, eastern Ukraine, on June 14, 2023. #

Svitlana Sushko, 62, cries while visiting the grave of her youngest son, a Ukrainian soldier who was killed last year in the war against Russia, in Kyiv, on August 3, 2023. #

People run from a missile strike outside the Palace of Culture in Pervomaiskyi, Ukraine, on July 4, 2023. People were gathered on the main square, near the Palace of Culture, for a funeral ceremony for Oleh Fadieienko, a fallen soldier of Ukraine's Kraken regiment. At the beginning of the ceremony, a missile struck the parking lot next to high-rise buildings; 31 people were injured, including 10 children. #

Russian prisoners of war are seen waiting in line to call home to Russia in a POW detention camp on August 3, 2023, in the Lviv region of Ukraine. Hundreds of captured Russian POWs, including conscripts, mercenaries, Wagner militia, and other military prisoners are being held in up to 50 sites around Ukraine. #

Alina hugs her husband, Andriy, in a hospital in Kyiv, on July 10, 2023. Andriy is a Ukrainian-army 47th Brigade air-reconnaissance officer, code name Apostle, who was heavily wounded in a battle with Russian troops in the Zaporizhzhia region. #

Participants prepare to take part in a live-fire exercise at a training ground during the final testing of women's army combat uniform components on July 12, 2023, in Kyiv. Currently, 41,000 women serve in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, of which about 5,000 are directly involved in combat operations. #

A puppy sits on a stack of grad shells, in the vicinity of Bakhmut, as the Ukrainian army conducts operations to target the trenches of Russian forces in the Donetsk Oblast, on August 8, 2023. #

Defused mines and dummy explosives used for instruction are laid out as soldiers of the 128th Brigade of Ukraine's Territorial Defense Forces receive training to counter Russian mines that litter the Zaporizhzhia region, on August 2, 2023. #

A person takes a picture of a damaged warehouse after a missile strike in Odesa on June 14, 2023. At least three people were killed and 13 wounded in the Russian attack on the southern Ukrainian port city, authorities said. #

Volunteers of the Repair Together charity organization collect useable bricks from a destroyed cultural center in Yahidne village, in Ukraine's Chernihiv region, on July 8, 2023. #