In Pictures: Siversk, Ukraine Battleground Town

A Ukrainian soldier fires a RPG in a training camp just outside of Siversk, one of the many towns in the Donbas region badly affected by the war, April 4, 2023.

A woman passes by a destroyed car in one of the many streets that have been hit by Russian artillery in Siversk, April 4, 2023.

An armored personal carrier was parked just a few meters from the graves of two people who were killed last summer, April 4, 2023.

Two graves lay on an open field just on the edge of the town of Siversk, a few kilometers away from Russian positions, April 4, 2023.

One of many craters caused by the constant shelling from Russian artillery against the town of Siversk, located just a few kilometers of the front line in the Donbas region, Eastern Ukraine, April 4, 2023.

A local resident passes by a grave inside the common area of a complex of residential buildings in Siversk, April 4, 2023.

A former technical school in Siversk was completely destroyed by Russian bombs that have hit this town since the beginning of the war, April 4, 2023.

Anti-tank mines are still around some of the half-destroyed buildings of Siversk, an Eastern Ukraine town located just a few kilometers from the front line, on April 4, 2023.

At the gardens of the local hospital, residents created a graveyard. They say the cemetery is too close to the front lines and it is impossible to take their dead for a proper funeral, April 4, 2023.

A bomb opened a little crater near the makeshift cemetery at the gardens of the local hospital in Siversk, April 4, 2023.