Ukrainian servicemen carry a coffin with the body of a member of the Brotherhood volunteer's battalion, killed during a raid on Russian territory on December 25, according to Russian FSB security services, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, during a memorial ceremony, in Kyiv, Ukraine March 7, 2023. REUTERS/Alina Yarysh 

Ukrainian servicemen carry coffins with the bodies of members of the Brotherhood volunteer's battalion, killed during a raid on Russian territory on December 25, according to Russian FSB security services, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, during a memorial ceremony in Kyiv, Ukraine March 7, 2023. REUTERS/Alina Yarysh 

A mother holds her child as she rests in her arms, while women line up outside of a doctor's room, at a hospital in Bamiyan, Afghanistan, March 2, 2023. Since taking over in 2021, Taliban authorities have barred women from universities and most charity jobs, but they have made exemptions in the healthcare sector, such as the trainee midwife program that has been spearheaded by the U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR) with a local NGO, where young women train for two years in the provincial capital hospital as midwives, after which they will return home to help the women in the community. "When the roads are blocked of course there are no means of transportation, people even use donkeys to move the patients to the clinic centres, but sometimes there is not even the opportunity for that," said Mohammad Ashraf Niazi, the head of UNHCR's Bamiyan office. "These students can help in each village, in each district with deliveries." REUTERS/Ali Khara SEARCH "KHARA MIDWIVES" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY 

Ukrainian refugee Tatiana Potapova (3rd-L), 62, who is from Slabozhensky, sits with others during an evening for pensioners to share Polish and Ukrainian traditions of Polish Fat Thursday and Ukrainian Stritennia, organised by the Senior Club at the Zustricz Foundation in Krakow, Poland, February 15, 2023. The day the war began, Potapova’s hometown near the Russian border fell under Russian occupation and she and her family could no longer travel to areas under Ukrainian control. "It was impossible to leave the house, it was scary, Russians were checking everyone," she recalled. But Potapova's daughter, who has diabetes and uses a wheelchair, needed medicine, while her grandson showed symptoms of trauma. In the end, she said they had no choice but to leave, fleeing through Russia and Estonia to Krakow, where her elder daughter lives.  REUTERS/Kacper Pempel SEARCH "PEMPEL ANNIVERSARY REFUGEES" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. 

Ukrainian refugee Tatiana Potapova, 62, who is from Slabozhensky, takes a traditional Polish donut during an evening for pensioners to share Polish and Ukrainian traditions of Polish Fat Thursday and Ukrainian Stritennia, organised by the Senior Club at the Zustricz Foundation in Krakow, Poland, February 15, 2023. The day the war began, Potapova’s hometown near the Russian border fell under Russian occupation and she and her family could no longer travel to areas under Ukrainian control. "It was impossible to leave the house, it was scary, Russians were checking everyone," she recalled. But Potapova's daughter, who has diabetes and uses a wheelchair, needed medicine, while her grandson showed symptoms of trauma. In the end, she said they had no choice but to leave, fleeing through Russia and Estonia to Krakow, where her elder daughter lives.  REUTERS/Kacper Pempel SEARCH "PEMPEL ANNIVERSARY REFUGEES" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. 

Ukrainian refugee Tatiana Potapova, 62, who is from Slabozhensky, packs her backpack, which was the only baggage she took from Ukraine when she fled to Poland, during an evening for pensioners to share Polish and Ukrainian traditions of Polish Fat Thursday and Ukrainian Stritennia, organised by the Senior Club at the Zustricz Foundation in Krakow, Poland, February 15, 2023. The day the war began, Potapova’s hometown near the Russian border fell under Russian occupation and she and her family could no longer travel to areas under Ukrainian control. "It was impossible to leave the house, it was scary, Russians were checking everyone," she recalled. But Potapova's daughter, who has diabetes and uses a wheelchair, needed medicine, while her grandson showed symptoms of trauma. In the end, she said they had no choice but to leave, fleeing through Russia and Estonia to Krakow, where her elder daughter lives.  REUTERS/Kacper Pempel SEARCH "PEMPEL ANNIVERSARY REFUGEES" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. 

Ukrainian refugee Tatiana Potapova, 62, walks with her grandson Kyrylo Shanhin, 9, after he finished school in Krakow, Poland, February 2, 2023. The day the war began, Potapova’s hometown near the Russian border fell under Russian occupation and she and her family could no longer travel to areas under Ukrainian control. "It was impossible to leave the house, it was scary, Russians were checking everyone," she recalled. But Potapova's daughter, who has diabetes and uses a wheelchair, needed medicine, while her grandson showed symptoms of trauma. In the end, she said they had no choice but to leave, fleeing through Russia and Estonia to Krakow, where her elder daughter lives.  REUTERS/Kacper Pempel SEARCH "PEMPEL ANNIVERSARY REFUGEES" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. 

Ukrainian refugee Tatiana Potapova, 62, from Slabozhensky, travels by tram with her grandson Kyrylo Shanhin, 9, to their apartment in Krakow, Poland, February 2, 2023. The day the war began, Potapova’s hometown near the Russian border fell under Russian occupation and she and her family could no longer travel to areas under Ukrainian control. "It was impossible to leave the house, it was scary, Russians were checking everyone," she recalled. But Potapova's daughter, who has diabetes and uses a wheelchair, needed medicine, while her grandson showed symptoms of trauma. In the end, she said they had no choice but to leave, fleeing through Russia and Estonia to Krakow, where her elder daughter lives.  REUTERS/Kacper Pempel SEARCH "PEMPEL ANNIVERSARY REFUGEES" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. 

Ukrainian refugee Tatiana Potapova, 62, from Slabozhensky, travels by tram with her grandson Kyrylo Shanhin (not pictured), 9, to their apartment in Krakow, Poland, February 2, 2023. The day the war began, Potapova’s hometown near the Russian border fell under Russian occupation and she and her family could no longer travel to areas under Ukrainian control. "It was impossible to leave the house, it was scary, Russians were checking everyone," she recalled. But Potapova's daughter, who has diabetes and uses a wheelchair, needed medicine, while her grandson showed symptoms of trauma. In the end, she said they had no choice but to leave, fleeing through Russia and Estonia to Krakow, where her elder daughter lives.  REUTERS/Kacper Pempel SEARCH "PEMPEL ANNIVERSARY REFUGEES" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. 

Ukrainian refugee Tatiana Potapova, 62, from Slabozhensky, gives a meal to her grandson Kyrylo Shanhin, 9, after returning from his school in Krakow, Poland, February 2, 2023. The day the war began, Potapova’s hometown near the Russian border fell under Russian occupation and she and her family could no longer travel to areas under Ukrainian control. "It was impossible to leave the house, it was scary, Russians were checking everyone," she recalled. But Potapova's daughter, who has diabetes and uses a wheelchair, needed medicine, while her grandson showed symptoms of trauma. In the end, she said they had no choice but to leave, fleeing through Russia and Estonia to Krakow, where her elder daughter lives.  REUTERS/Kacper Pempel SEARCH "PEMPEL ANNIVERSARY REFUGEES" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. 

Ukrainian refugee Tatiana Potapova (2nd-R), 62, from Slabozhensky, plays Monopoly at a meeting organised by the Senior Club at the Zustricz Foundation in Krakow, Poland, February 1, 2023. The day the war began, Potapova’s hometown near the Russian border fell under Russian occupation and she and her family could no longer travel to areas under Ukrainian control. "It was impossible to leave the house, it was scary, Russians were checking everyone," she recalled. But Potapova's daughter, who has diabetes and uses a wheelchair, needed medicine, while her grandson showed symptoms of trauma. In the end, she said they had no choice but to leave, fleeing through Russia and Estonia to Krakow, where her elder daughter lives.  REUTERS/Kacper Pempel SEARCH "PEMPEL ANNIVERSARY REFUGEES" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. 

Ukrainian refugee Tatiana Potapova, 62, from Slabozhensky, sits in a room in her rented apartment in Krakow, Poland, February 1, 2023. The day the war began, Potapova’s hometown near the Russian border fell under Russian occupation and she and her family could no longer travel to areas under Ukrainian control. "It was impossible to leave the house, it was scary, Russians were checking everyone," she recalled. But Potapova's daughter, who has diabetes and uses a wheelchair, needed medicine, while her grandson showed symptoms of trauma. In the end, she said they had no choice but to leave, fleeing through Russia and Estonia to Krakow, where her elder daughter lives.  REUTERS/Kacper Pempel SEARCH "PEMPEL ANNIVERSARY REFUGEES" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. 

A destroyed Russian tank rusts near the Kovalyov brothers' houses, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, near the village of Posad-Pokrovske, northwest of the city of Kherson, Ukraine January 31, 2023. The two houses in what had been no-man's land between Russian and Ukrainian forces are badly damaged by shelling, there is no central power or heating and the surrounding fields are heavily mined, making them unworkable. Yet the Kovalyov brothers - Stepan who is 80 and Volodymyr who is 77 - and their wives have decided to stay in the isolated farming village of Posad-Pokrovske in southern Ukraine to live out their days in the place they know best. REUTERS/Nacho Doce SEARCH "DOCE UKRAINE VILLAGE" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. 

Stepan Kovalyov, 80, and his brother Volodymyr Kovalyov, 77, toast with horilka, a Ukrainian spirit, inside of a cellar where Stepan and his wife live after their house was destroyed during the Russian occupation, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in the village of Posad-Pokrovske, northwest of the city of Kherson, Ukraine January 29, 2023. There is no central power or heating and the surrounding fields are heavily mined, making them unworkable. Yet the brothers have decided to stay in the isolated farming village to live out their days in the place they know best. REUTERS/Nacho Doce SEARCH "DOCE UKRAINE VILLAGE" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY 

Tetyana Kovalyova, 79, whose house was destroyed during months of Russian occupation, feeds her dog in front of the cellar where she and her husband live, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in the village of Posad-Pokrovske, northwest of the city of Kherson, Ukraine January 29, 2023. There is no central power or heating and the surrounding fields are heavily mined, making them unworkable. REUTERS/Nacho Doce SEARCH "DOCE UKRAINE VILLAGE" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. 

Volodymyr Kovalyov, 77, who remained in his village throughout the conflict and was in his house in October when it was hit by what he thinks was a tank shell, lays in a bed in the last room of his house that still has a roof over it, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in the village of Posad-Pokrovske, northwest of the city of Kherson, Ukraine January 28, 2023. Russian troops reached Posad-Pokrovske on Feb. 25 last year, the day after Russia launched the full-scale invasion it calls a "special military operation" in Ukraine. It was as far as they were able to push north, and the area around the small settlement became a no-go zone between enemy forces. The ground is now littered with ammunition boxes, bullet casings and burned out Russian tanks. Mines lay scattered, two unexploded missiles protrude from the earth nearby, deep, narrow trenches snake through fields and house after house lays in ruins. REUTERS/Nacho Doce SEARCH "DOCE UKRAINE VILLAGE" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. 

A sign warning of dangerous landmines stands in front of the damaged house of Volodymyr Kovalyov, 77, his wife Tetiana, 76, and their granddaughter Svetlana, 21, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in the village of Posad-Pokrovske, northwest of the city of Kherson, Ukraine January 28, 2023. Russian troops reached Posad-Pokrovske on Feb. 25 last year, the day after Russia launched the full-scale invasion it calls a "special military operation" in Ukraine. It was as far as they were able to push north, and the area around the small settlement became a no-go zone between enemy forces. The ground is now littered with ammunition boxes, bullet casings and burned out Russian tanks. Mines lay scattered, two unexploded missiles protrude from the earth nearby, deep, narrow trenches snake through fields and house after house lays in ruins. REUTERS/Nacho Doce SEARCH "DOCE UKRAINE VILLAGE" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. 

An abandoned Russian checkpoint blocks a road near the Kovalyov brothers' houses, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, near the village of Posad-Pokrovske, northwest of the city of Kherson, Ukraine January 28, 2023. The two houses in what had been no-man's land between Russian and Ukrainian forces are badly damaged by shelling, there is no central power or heating and the surrounding fields are heavily mined, making them unworkable. Yet the Kovalyov brothers - Stepan who is 80 and Volodymyr who is 77 - and their wives have decided to stay in the isolated farming village of Posad-Pokrovske in southern Ukraine to live out their days in the place they know best. REUTERS/Nacho Doce SEARCH "DOCE UKRAINE VILLAGE" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. 

Religious iconography is displayed in a destroyed house, once lived in by an Orthodox priest but abandoned during the months of Russian occupation, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, nearby the cemetery in the village of Posad-Pokrovske, northwest of the city of Kherson, Ukraine January 28, 2023. Russian troops reached Posad-Pokrovske on Feb. 25 last year, the day after Russia launched the full-scale invasion it calls a "special military operation" in Ukraine. It was as far as they were able to push north, and the area around the small settlement became a no-go zone between enemy forces. The ground is now littered with ammunition boxes, bullet casings and burned out Russian tanks. Mines lay scattered, two unexploded missiles protrude from the earth nearby, deep, narrow trenches snake through fields and house after house lays in ruins. REUTERS/Nacho Doce SEARCH "DOCE UKRAINE VILLAGE" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. 

Mouldy bread, mattresses and clothes litter a warehouse where Russian forces were based during their recent occupation, near the Kovalyov brothers' houses, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, near the village of Posad-Pokrovske, northwest of the city of Kherson, Ukraine January 28, 2023. Russian troops reached Posad-Pokrovske on Feb. 25 last year, the day after Russia launched the full-scale invasion it calls a "special military operation" in Ukraine. It was as far as they were able to push north, and the area around the small settlement became a no-go zone between enemy forces. The ground is now littered with ammunition boxes, bullet casings and burned out Russian tanks. Mines lay scattered, two unexploded missiles protrude from the earth nearby, deep, narrow trenches snake through fields and house after house lays in ruins. REUTERS/Nacho Doce SEARCH "DOCE UKRAINE VILLAGE" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. 

Trenches line the ground behind the house of Stepan Kovalyov, 80, and his wife Tetyana, 79, which was destroyed during months of Russian occupation, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in the village of Posad-Pokrovske, northwest of the city of Kherson, Ukraine January 28, 2023. There is no central power or heating and the surrounding fields are heavily mined, making them unworkable. Yet the couple, along with Stepan's brother Volodymyr and his wife who live nearby, has decided to stay in the isolated farming village to live out their days in the place they know best. The couple currently lives inside their cellar, which their late son originally built to use as a food store. REUTERS/Nacho Doce SEARCH "DOCE UKRAINE VILLAGE" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. 

An unexploded Grad rocket is embedded in a field near the Kovalyov brothers' houses, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in the village of Posad-Pokrovske, northwest of the city of Kherson, Ukraine January 28, 2023. The two houses in what had been no-man's land between Russian and Ukrainian forces are badly damaged by shelling, there is no central power or heating and the surrounding fields are heavily mined, making them unworkable. Yet the Kovalyov brothers - Stepan who is 80 and Volodymyr who is 77 - and their wives have decided to stay in the isolated farming village of Posad-Pokrovske in southern Ukraine to live out their days in the place they know best. REUTERS/Nacho Doce SEARCH "DOCE UKRAINE VILLAGE" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. 

A view shows the house of Stepan Kovalyov, 80, and his wife Tetyana, 79, which was destroyed during the months of Russian occupation, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in the village of Posad-Pokrovske, northwest of the city of Kherson, Ukraine January 27, 2023. There is no central power or heating and the surrounding fields are heavily mined, making them unworkable. Yet the couple, along with Stepan's brother Volodymyr and his wife who live nearby, has decided to stay in the isolated farming village to live out their days in the place they know best. The couple currently lives inside their cellar, which their late son originally built for use as a food store. REUTERS/Nacho Doce SEARCH "DOCE UKRAINE VILLAGE" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. 

Volodymyr Kovalyov, 77, who remained in his village throughout the conflict and was in his house in October when it was hit by what he thinks was a tank shell, fixes his dog's kennel in front of his damaged house, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in the village of Posad-Pokrovske, northwest of the city of Kherson, Ukraine January 26, 2023. Russian troops reached Posad-Pokrovske on Feb. 25 last year, the day after Russia launched the full-scale invasion it calls a "special military operation" in Ukraine. It was as far as they were able to push north, and the area around the small settlement became a no-go zone between enemy forces. The ground is now littered with ammunition boxes, bullet casings and burned out Russian tanks. Mines lay scattered, two unexploded missiles protrude from the earth nearby, deep, narrow trenches snake through fields and house after house lays in ruins. REUTERS/Nacho Doce SEARCH "DOCE UKRAINE VILLAGE" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. 

Volodymyr Kovalyov, 77, who remained in his village throughout the conflict and was in his house in October when it was hit by what he thinks was a tank shell, waits for bread at a food delivery point, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in the village of Posad-Pokrovske, northwest of the city of Kherson, Ukraine January 26, 2023. Russian troops reached Posad-Pokrovske on Feb. 25 last year, the day after Russia launched the full-scale invasion it calls a "special military operation" in Ukraine. It was as far as they were able to push north, and the area around the small settlement became a no-go zone between enemy forces. The ground is now littered with ammunition boxes, bullet casings and burned out Russian tanks. Mines lay scattered, two unexploded missiles protrude from the earth nearby, deep, narrow trenches snake through fields and house after house lays in ruins. REUTERS/Nacho Doce SEARCH "DOCE UKRAINE VILLAGE" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. 

Volodymyr Kovalyov, 77, who remained in his village throughout the conflict and was in his house in October when it was hit by what he thinks was a tank shell, carries a bottle of horilka, a Ukrainian spirit, on his bicycle, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in the village of Posad-Pokrovske, northwest of the city of Kherson, Ukraine January 26, 2023. Russian troops reached Posad-Pokrovske on Feb. 25 last year, the day after Russia launched the full-scale invasion it calls a "special military operation" in Ukraine. It was as far as they were able to push north, and the area around the small settlement became a no-go zone between enemy forces. The ground is now littered with ammunition boxes, bullet casings and burned out Russian tanks. Mines lay scattered, two unexploded missiles protrude from the earth nearby, deep, narrow trenches snake through fields and house after house lays in ruins. REUTERS/Nacho Doce SEARCH "DOCE UKRAINE VILLAGE" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. 

Volodymyr Kovalyov, 77, who remained in his village throughout the conflict and was in his house in October when it was hit by what he thinks was a tank shell, walks with his bicycle to a food delivery point, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in the village of Posad-Pokrovske, northwest of the city of Kherson, Ukraine January 26, 2023. Russian troops reached Posad-Pokrovske on Feb. 25 last year, the day after Russia launched the full-scale invasion it calls a "special military operation" in Ukraine. It was as far as they were able to push north, and the area around the small settlement became a no-go zone between enemy forces. The ground is now littered with ammunition boxes, bullet casings and burned out Russian tanks. Mines lay scattered, two unexploded missiles protrude from the earth nearby, deep, narrow trenches snake through fields and house after house lays in ruins. REUTERS/Nacho Doce SEARCH "DOCE UKRAINE VILLAGE" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY 

Volodymyr Kovalyov, 77, his wife Tetiana, 76, and their granddaughter Svetlana, 21, who lives with the couple, stand at the entrance of their damaged house, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in the village of Posad-Pokrovske, northwest of the city of Kherson, Ukraine January 26, 2023. There is no central power or heating and the surrounding fields are heavily mined, making them unworkable. Yet the family, along with Volodymyr’s brother Stepan and his wife who live nearby, has decided to stay in the isolated farming village to live out their days in the place they know best. REUTERS/Nacho Doce SEARCH "DOCE UKRAINE VILLAGE" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. 

Volodymyr Kovalyov, 77, his wife Tetiana, 76, and their granddaughter Svetlana, 21, talk in the last room of their house that still has a roof, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in the village of Posad-Pokrovske, northwest of the city of Kherson, Ukraine January 26, 2023. There is no central power or heating and the surrounding fields are heavily mined, making them unworkable. Svetlana, who is disabled, helps Volodymyr and Tetiana tend their one cow and rooster. REUTERS/Nacho Doce SEARCH "DOCE UKRAINE VILLAGE" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. 

A cat belonging to Volodymyr Kovalyov, 77, and his wife Tetiana, 76, and their granddaughter Svetlana, 21, stands on a bucket of water, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in the village of Posad-Pokrovske, northwest of the city of Kherson, Ukraine January 26, 2023. There is no central power or heating and the surrounding fields are heavily mined, making them unworkable. Svetlana, who is disabled, helps Volodymyr and Tetiana tend their one cow and rooster. REUTERS/Nacho Doce SEARCH "DOCE UKRAINE VILLAGE" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. 

Stepan Kovalyov, 80, and his wife Tetyana, 79, look at trenches located at the back of their house, which was destroyed during months of Russian occupation, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in the village of Posad-Pokrovske, northwest of the city of Kherson, Ukraine January 26, 2023. There is no central power or heating and the surrounding fields are heavily mined, making them unworkable. Yet the couple, along with Stepan's brother Volodymyr and his wife who live nearby, has decided to stay in the isolated farming village to live out their days in the place they know best. The couple currently lives inside their cellar, which their late son originally built to use as a food store. REUTERS/Nacho Doce SEARCH "DOCE UKRAINE VILLAGE" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. 

Volodymyr Kovalyov, 77, pours himself a glass of horilka, a Ukrainian spirit, in the last room of his house that still has a roof, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in the village of Posad-Pokrovske, northwest of the city of Kherson, Ukraine January 26, 2023. Volodymyr and his wife were in their house in October when it was hit by what they think was a tank shell. There is no central power or heating and the surrounding fields are heavily mined, making them unworkable. Yet the couple, along with Volodymyr's brother Stepan and his wife who live nearby, has decided to stay in the isolated farming village to live out their days in the place they know best. REUTERS/Nacho Doce SEARCH "DOCE UKRAINE VILLAGE" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. 

Tetyana Kovalyova, 79, whose house was destroyed during months of Russian occupation, opens the door of the basement where she and her husband Stepan, 80, now live, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in the village of Posad-Pokrovske, northwest of the city of Kherson, Ukraine January 25, 2023. There is no central power or heating and the surrounding fields are heavily mined, making them unworkable. Yet the couple, along with Stepan's brother Volodymyr and his wife who live nearby, has decided to stay in the isolated farming village to live out their days in the place they know best. REUTERS/Nacho Doce SEARCH "DOCE UKRAINE VILLAGE" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. 

The bloodied bulletproof of a Ukrainian serviceman is seen, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, on a frontline near the town of Soledar in Donetsk region, Ukraine January 14, 2023. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty/Serhii Nuzhnenko via REUTERS 

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Olga, 68, peels potatoes in the basement of an apartment building where she is living with her family with no power, water or heat after the building where she lived was shelled a week ago, as Russia's invasion on Ukraine continues, in Siversk, Ukraine, December 4, 2022. REUTERS/ Leah Millis 

Olga, 68, sits in the dim light in the basement of an apartment building where she is living with her family with no power, water or heat, after the building where she lived, was shelled a week ago, as Russia's invasion on Ukraine continues, in Siversk, Ukraine, December 4, 2022.REUTERS/ Leah Millis 

Employees remain electric power lines damaged by Russian military strikes in Kherson region, Ukraine November 30, 2022. REUTERS/Anna Voitenko 

A man drives a car down a street in Siversk as the sounds of incoming and outgoing artillery fill the air, in Ukraine, November 30, 2022. REUTERS/Leah Millis 

Natalia, 60, fetches an order for a customer in her shop, Poltavochka, which only has a small amount of power due to intermittent use of a generator, in Siversk, Ukraine, November 30, 2022. The town is without power, water and many basic services amid daily shelling, but Natalia's shop maintains some inventory through deliveries that still come every few days. REUTERS/Leah Millis 

Candles are for sale in a small shop, Poltavochka, which only has a small amount of power due to intermittent use of a generator, in Siversk, Ukraine, November 30, 2022. The town is without power, water and many basic services amid daily shelling, but Natalia's shop maintains some inventory through deliveries that still come every few days. REUTERS/Leah Millis 

Natalia, 60, fetches an order for a customer in her shop, Poltavochka, which only has a small amount of power due to intermittent use of a generator, in Siversk, Ukraine, November 30, 2022. The town is without power, water and many basic services amid daily shelling, but Natalia's shop maintains some inventory through deliveries that still come every few days. REUTERS/Leah Millis TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY 

Natalia, 60, gathers an order for a customer in her shop, Poltavochka, which only has a small amount of power due to intermittent use of a generator, in Siversk, Ukraine, November 30, 2022. The town is without power, water and many basic services amid daily shelling, but Natalia's shop maintains some inventory through deliveries that still come every few days. REUTERS/Leah Millis 

A hole in the wall of a small shop shows where shrapnel blew through it from a bomb that destroyed 6 houses nearby months ago, according to locals, in Siversk, Ukraine, November 30, 2022. The town is without power, water and many basic services amid daily shelling, but Natalia's shop maintains some inventory through deliveries that still come every few days. REUTERS/Leah Millis 

Two men walk home from a local store as the sounds of incoming and outgoing artillery fire fill the air, in Siversk, Ukraine, November 30, 2022. REUTERS/Leah Millis 

Victor Syabro, 68, grinds grain into flour to make food for his animals as incoming and outgoing artillery fire can be heard near his land where he and his wife, Ludmila, 61, continue to live despite the fact that their home was mostly destroyed by shelling in the summer and their garden was hit as recently as last week, in Siversk, Ukraine, November 30, 2022. Despite no power, water or services and daily shelling, Victor says they will not leave because it's their land, where Victor was raised and where five generations have lived. REUTERS/Leah Millis 

Miles Pitcher, 17, a transgender boy who told Reuters how he had turned to an online provider for private gender care after waiting years for the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) to deliver it, applies some Testogel testosterone gel to his arm as he poses for a photograph in his room in Dover, Britain, November 28, 2022. To match Special Report BRITAIN-TRANSYOUTH/        REUTERS/Natalie Thomas THIS IMAGE IS ONLY FOR USE WITH THE STORY BRITAIN-TRANSYOUTH/ - NO STANDALONE USES 

Miles Pitcher, 17, a transgender boy who told Reuters how he had turned to an online provider for private gender care after waiting years for the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) to deliver it, applies some Testogel testosterone gel to his arm as he poses for a photograph in his room in Dover, Britain, November 28, 2022. To match Special Report BRITAIN-TRANSYOUTH/        REUTERS/Natalie Thomas THIS IMAGE IS ONLY FOR USE WITH THE STORY BRITAIN-TRANSYOUTH/ - NO STANDALONE USES 

Workers Alexander, 41, Semen, 40, and Alexey, 44, dig out a tractor tire from the rubble of a destroyed storage building at a grain processing center so they can use it for repairs even as their town continues to take incoming shelling in Siversk, Donetsk region, Ukraine, November 28, 2022. REUTERS/Leah Millis TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY 

Workers Alexander, 41, and Semen, 40, dig out a tractor tire from the rubble of a destroyed storage building at a grain processing center so they can use it for repairs even as their town continues to take incoming shelling in Siversk, Donetsk region, Ukraine, November 28, 2022. REUTERS/Leah Millis 

Workersdig out a tractor tire from the rubble of a destroyed storage building at a grain processing center so they can use it for repairs even as their town continues to take incoming shelling in Siversk, Donetsk region, Ukraine, November 28, 2022. REUTERS/Leah Millis 

Ludmila Syabro, 61, discusses what is has been like to sleep in the storage cellar of her and her husband’s land, despite the fact that their home was mostly destroyed by shelling in the summer and their garden was hit as recently as last week as the town continues to receive shelling on a daily basis in Siversk, Donetsk region, Ukraine, November 28, 2022. Despite no power, water or services and daily shelling, Victor Syabro says they will not leave because it’s their land, where Victor was raised and where five generations have lived. REUTERS/Leah Millis 

Ludmila Syabro, 61, sits for a portrait in the storage cellar where she and her husband Victor, 68, sleep, despite the fact that their home was mostly destroyed by shelling in the summer and their garden was hit as recently as last week as the town continues to receive shelling on a daily basis in Siversk, Donetsk region, Ukraine, November 28, 2022. Despite no power, water or services and daily shelling, Victor Syabro says they will not leave because it’s their land, where Victor was raised and where five generations have lived. REUTERS/Leah Millis TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY 

Ludmila Syabro, 61, sits for a portrait in the storage cellar where she and her husband Victor, 68, sleep, despite the fact that their home was mostly destroyed by shelling in the summer and their garden was hit as recently as last week as the town continues to receive shelling on a daily basis in Siversk, Donetsk region, Ukraine, November 28, 2022. Despite no power, water or services and daily shelling, Victor Syabro says they will not leave because it’s their land, where Victor was raised and where five generations have lived. REUTERS/Leah Millis 

Ludmila Syabro, 61, stands next to her dog L'ourse where she and her husband Victor, 68, live, despite the fact that their home was mostly destroyed by shelling in the summer and their garden was hit as recently as last week as the town continues to receive shelling on a daily basis in Siversk, Donetsk region, Ukraine, November 28, 2022. Despite no power, water or services and daily shelling, Victor Syabro says they will not leave because it’s their land, where Victor was raised and where five generations have lived. REUTERS/Leah Millis 

Victor Syabro, 68, carries a plank of wood to cut into smaller pieces for firewood on his land where he and his wife Ludmila, 61, continue to live despite the fact that their home was mostly destroyed by shelling in the summer and their garden was hit as recently as last week as the town continues to receive shelling on a daily basis in Siversk, Donetsk region, Ukraine, November 28, 2022. Despite no power, water or services and daily shelling, Victor says they will not leave because it’s their land, where Victor was raised and where five generations have lived. REUTERS/Leah Millis 

Victor Syabro, 68, cuts a plank of wood into smaller pieces for firewood on his land where he and his wife Ludmila, 61, continue to live despite the fact that their home was mostly destroyed by shelling in the summer and their garden was hit as recently as last week as the town continues to receive shelling on a daily basis in Siversk, Donetsk region, Ukraine, November 28, 2022. Despite no power, water or services and daily shelling, Victor says they will not leave because it’s their land, where Victor was raised and where five generations have lived. REUTERS/Leah Millis 

Ludmila, 61, and Victor Syabro, 68, stand on the road next to their home, where they continue to live, in the storage cellar, despite the fact that it was mostly destroyed by shelling in the summer and their garden was hit as recently as last week as the town continues to receive shelling on a daily basis in Siversk, Donetsk region, Ukraine, November 28, 2022. Despite no power, water or services and daily shelling, Victor says they will not leave because it’s their land, where Victor was raised and where five generations have lived. REUTERS/Leah Millis 

Victor Syabro, 68, cuts a plank of wood into smaller pieces for firewood on his land where he and his wife Ludmila, 61, continue to live despite the fact that their home was mostly destroyed by shelling in the summer and their garden was hit as recently as last week as the town continues to receive shelling on a daily basis in Siversk, Donetsk region, Ukraine, November 28, 2022. Despite no power, water or services and daily shelling, Victor says they will not leave because it’s their land, where Victor was raised and where five generations have lived. REUTERS/Leah Millis 

Ludmila Syabro, 61, pets a cat while standing with her husband Victor, 68, where they continue to live in the storage cellar, despite the fact that their home was mostly destroyed by shelling in the summer and their garden was hit as recently as last week as the town continues to receive shelling on a daily basis in Siversk, Donetsk region, Ukraine, November 28, 2022. Despite no power, water or services and daily shelling, Victor says they will not leave because it’s their land, where Victor was raised and where five generations have lived. REUTERS/Leah Millis