"It is very difficult here. Hell. Such a hell. If not for God, really, I don’t know how I’d manage," says 54-year-old Oksana. Her home in the Ukraine’s eastern town of Toretsk was recently destroyed, forcing her to move into the basement of another building. Fellow resident Valentyna also lives there. Both her son and husband are dead, and she has lived alone since Russian strikes began targeting the area in June 2024. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES