The sun is seen trough the flame of a gas torch lit on top of a Rostral column during celebrations for the 320th anniversary of St. Petersburg, in St. Petersburg, Russia, Saturday, May 27, 2023. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)





Fireworks explode over the Palace drawbridge through the Neva River during celebrations for the 320th anniversary of St. Petersburg, in St. Petersburg, Russia, early Sunday, May 28, 2023. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)





People walk next to a whale-shaped kite in the air, during the “Colorful sky” kite festival in Moscow, Russia on May 27, 2023. (Photo by Evgenia Novozhenina/Reuters)





A police officer secures an area outside a damaged multi-storey apartment building after a reported drone attack in Moscow on May 30, 2023. (Photo by Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP Photo)





A street musician plays his violin by an advertising screen promoting contract military service in the Russian army at the Moscow metro on June 2, 2023. (Photo by Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP Photo)





Residents evacuated from the Belgorod region's zones bordering Ukraine, including those from the town of Shebekino, are seen settled in a temporary shelter set up at the Belgorod Arena in the regional capital of Belgorod on June 2, 2023. (Photo by Olga Maltseva/AFP Photo)





A billboard depicting a soldier, with a slogan reading “Contract service. A real man's job”, in St. Petersburg, Russia, 02 June 2023. On 24 February 2022, Russian troops entered Ukrainian territory in what the Russian president declared a “Special Military Operation”, starting an armed conflict. (Photo by Anatoly Maltsev/EPA)





A street performer wearing a 18 century costume and earning money by posing for photos walks at the Palace Square past a portrait of Russian Tsar Peter the Great, in St. Petersburg, Russia, Friday, June 2, 2023. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)





In this photo released by Russian Orthodox Church Press Service, the Trinity icon by Andrei Rublev is displayed as Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill conducts an Orthodox service celebrating Trinity Sunday with Russia's most famous icon transferred from a museum to Moscow's main cathedral despite the keepers' vociferous protests in the Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, June 4, 2023. The Trinity icon by Andrei Rublev that was kept in Moscow's Tretyakov Gallery since the 1920s was moved to Christ the Savior Cathedral for the holiday on President Vladimir Putin's order. Putin's sudden order to hand over the 15th century icon to the church came despite protests from the Tretyakov keepers that the icon was too fragile to move. (Photo by Oleg Varov/Russian Orthodox Church Press Service via AP Photo)





Russian Orthodox believers worship the icon “Trinity” by Andrei Rublev during a church service on Holy Trinity in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow, Russia, 04 June 2023. On 15 May, it became known about the decision to transfer the icon “Trinity” by Andrei Rublev from the Tretyakov Gallery to the Russian Orthodox Church. According to the message, which was published on the website of the Russian Orthodox Church, the decision was made by the Russian president “in response to numerous requests from Orthodox believers”. On 16 May, the Russian Ministry of Culture reported that the icon would be exhibited in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior on 04 June, then sent for restoration, and then to the Trinity Cathedral of the Holy Trinity Sergius Lavra. At the same time, the department noted that the icon, which is part of the state museum fund of the Russian Federation, will be transferred to the Russian Orthodox Church for long-term safekeeping. (Photo by Sergei Ilnitsky/EPA/EFE)





The full moon illuminates the sky over houses in Moscow, Russia, 04 June 2023. (Photo by Yuri Kochetkov/EPA/EFE)





Police officers detain a demonstrator with a poster that reads: “Happy Birthday Alexei (Navalny)”, in Pushkinskaya Square in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, June 4, 2023. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





A police officer detains a demonstrator with a poster that reads: “Freedom for Alexei Navalny”, in Pushkinskaya Square in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, June 4, 2023. Imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny has voiced hope for a better future in Russia as his supporters held demonstrations to mark his birthday. Risking their own prison terms, some Navalny supporters in Russia marked his birthday by holding individual pickets, and other painted graffiti. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





Children from from Russia's Belgorod Region, including those living in areas bordering Ukraine, arrive at a railway station on their way to a sanatorium in Yevpatoriya, Crimea on June 5, 2023. (Photo by Alexey Pavlishak/Reuters)





Residents of the Shebekinsky district of Russia's Belgorod region, who were evacuated following recent attacks on settlements near the Russia-Ukraine border in the course of a military conflict, stay at a temporary accommodation centre located in a sports facility in the city of Belgorod, Russia on June 7, 2023. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)





A dog barks at a temporary accommodation centre for residents of the Shebekinsky district of Russia's Belgorod region, who were evacuated following recent attacks on settlements near the Russia-Ukraine border in the course of a military conflict, in the city of Belgorod, Russia on June 7, 2023. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)





Residents of the Shebekinsky district of Russia's Belgorod region, who were evacuated following recent attacks on settlements near the Russia-Ukraine border in the course of a military conflict, stay at a temporary accommodation centre located in a sports facility in the city of Belgorod, Russia on June 7, 2023. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)





Residents of the Shebekinsky district of Russia's Belgorod region, who were evacuated following recent attacks on settlements near the Russia-Ukraine border in the course of a military conflict, queue to receive their meals at a temporary accommodation centre located in a sports facility in the city of Belgorod, Russia on June 7, 2023. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)





A building suffers damage from Ukrainian fire in Shebekino, 30km southeast of Belgorod, Russia on June 6, 2023. Governor Gladkov says some 500 various projectiles have been fired at the town in the last 24 hours, mostly its residential areas, with one person sustaining a fragment injury to a wrist. (Photo by Nikolai Gyngazov/TASS)





Teenagers undergo a weapons handling training at an Avangard military-patriotic educational camp in the southern Rostov region on June 9, 2023. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)