Your photos reminded me of this famous picture from Stalingrad.

(Fountain Children’s Round Dance, Emmanuil Evzerikhin, 1942, Source: МАММ/МDF)

The face of war is the same regardless of the time in which it was fought. ..

I like the Italian journalist Curzio Malaparte (1898-1957). I remembered him. He was an Italian (fascist) war correspondent in 1941 in the USSR. For example, he wrote about how war stinks. Today's war smells of petrol and diesel. After a few days it smells like iron. But within weeks the battlefield reeks of corpses like Thermophyles...

But I'm just imagining it. The war in Ukraine concerns me, but it is 900 km away from me. I reckon it's about 10 minutes of ballistic missile flight.