A still image taken from a handout video provided by the Russian Defence Ministry press-service shows a group of Russian prisoners of war (POW) disembarking a military aircraft after their exchange, at Chkalovsky Air Base near Moscow, Russia, 22 September 2022. Russia's Defence Ministry announced that 55 servicemen of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk republics were released in a prisoner exchange with Ukraine. (Photo by Russian Defence Ministry Press Service/EPA/EFE)





Russian conscripted men board a bus at a recruiting office during Russia's partial military mobilization in Moscow, Russia, 29 September 2022. Russian President Putin announced in a televised address to the nation on 21 September, that he signed a decree on partial mobilization in the Russian Federation due to the conflict in Ukraine. Russian Defense Minister Shoigu said that 300,000 people would be called up for service as part of the move. (Photo by Yuri Kochetkov/EPA/EFE)





A newly-mobilised Russian reservist fires a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) launcher during a training on a range in Donetsk region, Russian-controlled Ukraine on October 4, 2022. (Photo by Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters)





Newly-mobilised reservists take part in a training on a range in Rostov region, Russia on October 4, 2022. (Photo by Sergey Pivovarov/Reuters)





A newly-mobilised Russian reservist takes part in a training on a range in Donetsk Region, Russian-controlled Ukraine on October 4, 2022. (Photo by Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters)





A newly-mobilised reservist takes part in a training on a range in Rostov region, Russia on October 4, 2022. (Photo by Sergey Pivovarov/Reuters)





Newly-mobilised Russian reservists take part in a training on a range in Donetsk region, Russian-controlled Ukraine on October 4, 2022. (Photo by Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters)





Newly-mobilized reservists take part in training on a range in Rostov region, Russia on October 4, 2022. Reports have surfaced of men with no military experience or past draft age receiving call-up papers, adding to outrage that has reignited dormant – and banned – anti-war demonstrations. Tens of thousands of men seeking to avoid the draft have already fled abroad, and the public remains concerned that the mobilisation could be expanded. (Photo by Sergey Pivovarov/Reuters)





Newly-mobilised reservists take part in a training on a range in Rostov region, Russia on October 4, 2022. (Photo by Sergey Pivovarov/Reuters)





Newly-mobilised reservists take part in a training on a range in Rostov region, Russia on October 4, 2022. (Photo by Sergey Pivovarov/Reuters)





Recruits carry ammunition during a military training at a firing range in the Rostov-on-Don region in southern Russia, on October 4, 2022. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said that the military has recruited over 200,000 reservists as part of a partial mobilization launched two weeks ago. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





Russian Army recruits hold their weapons during a military training at a firing range in Donetsk People's Republic controlled by Russia-backed separatists, eastern Ukraine, on October 4, 2022. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





A woman poses in front of Russian artist Alexey Sergienko's painting “Putin with a puppy”, dedicated to President Vladimir Putin's upcoming 70th birthday, in Saint Petersburg on October 6, 2022. Vladimir Putin will turn 70 on October 7. (Photo by Olga Maltseva/AFP Photo)





A boy holds a toy machinegun as he stands next to a monument with fresh flowers to Podolsk's cadets died in 1941 during World War II in the town of Podolsk some 40 kilometres outside Moscow on October 6, 2022. Podolsk cadets – cadets of the Podolsk artillery and rifle military schools, who were alerted on October 5, 1941 to the defence of Moscow in the initial period of World War II. (Photo by Yuri Kadobnov/AFP Photo)





Oleg Orlov, a member of the Board of the International Historical Educational Charitable and Human Rights Society “Memorial” (International Memorial) speaks by phone and smokes after a court hearing, with the Russian flag in the background, in Moscow, Russia, Friday, October 7, 2022. On Friday, Oct. 7, 2022 the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to jailed Belarus rights activist Ales Bialiatski, the Russian group Memorial and the Ukrainian organization Center for Civil Liberties. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)





Flame and smoke rise from the Crimean Bridge connecting Russian mainland and the Crimean peninsula over the Kerch Strait, in Kerch, Crimea, Saturday, October 8, 2022. Russian authorities say a truck bomb has caused a fire and the partial collapse of a bridge linking Russia-annexed Crimea with Russia. Three people have been killed. The bridge is a key supply artery for Moscow's faltering war effort in southern Ukraine. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





A Russian police officer inspects a car as people wait to take the ferry after a truck exploded and heavily damaged the Kerch bridge that links Crimea to Russia, near Kerch, on October 8, 2022. Moscow announced on October 8, 2022 that a truck exploded igniting a huge fire and damaging the key Kerch bridge – built as Russia's sole land link with annexed Crimea – and vowed to find the perpetrators, without immediately blaming Ukraine. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)





A helicopter dropping water to stop fire on Crimean Bridge connecting Russian mainland and Crimean peninsula over the Kerch Strait, is seen through the letters Z and V, which have become a symbol of the Russian military, in Kerch, Crimea, Saturday, October 8, 2022.. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





Cars queue for the ferry connecting Crimean peninsula and Russia at the Kerch Strait, in Kerch, Crimea, Saturday, October 8, 2022. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





People look at thick black smoke rising from a fire on the Kerch bridge that links Crimea to Russia, after a truck exploded, near Kerch, on October 8, 2022. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)