A woman stands at her house's gate in Katerynivkae, eastern Ukraine, Friday, November 1, 2019. The Ukrainian military and separatist rebels in eastern both said they pulled back their forces from the line of contact in Zolote, one of the two areas in eastern Ukraine where they were to conduct disengagement to pave way for a summit of Ukraine, Russia, France and Germany to discuss settling the conflict in Ukraine's east. (Photo by Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo)





A Ukrainian soldier walks through destroyed mines in Butovka in Ukraine's Donetsk region on December 7, 2019. (Photo by Andriy Dubchak/Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)





Flowers and candles are seen at the memorial for Maidan activists or 'Heroes of the Heavenly Hundred', who were killed on the Maidan during anti-government protests in 2014, not far from Independence Square in Kiev, Ukraine, 21 November 2019. Ukrainians marked the anniversary of the Euromaidan revolution, commemorating 21 November 2013, on which activists started an anti-government picket after then-Prime Minister Mykola Azarov announced the suspension of a landmark treaty with the European Union. The protests eventually led to the ouster of President Viktor Yanukovych, creating political rifts through the country that erupted into a violent conflict between separatists and government forces in the eastern part of the country in the spring. (Photo by Sergey Dolzhenko/EPA/EFE)





A worker cleans a monument to Yiddish author Sholem Aleichem vandalized with swastikas in Kiev, Ukraine on November 25, 2019. (Photo by Valentyn Ogirenko/Reuters)





People get ready to welcome Ukrainian navy ships upon arrival at a port in Ochakiv on November 20, 2019. Russia on November 18, 2019 handed over three navy ships it seized a year ago from Ukraine in the latest move to ease tensions between the two countries ahead of a crucial summit. The Ukrainian “Nikopol”, “Berdyansk” and “Yany Kapu” vessels were seized in November last year in the most serious confrontation between the two countries since the start of the conflict in 2014. (Photo by Oleksandr Gimanov/AFP Photo)





People attend an exhibition “Wrapped in plastic” in Kiev, Ukraine on November 26, 2019. Ukrainian director Vladi Yudi used plastic in various shapes and forms to create settings for a horror cartoon titled “Wrapped in plastic”, with main character Garbie, combination of Barbie and garbage. Cartoon decorations were embedded into a bigger same-name exhibition fully made of recyclable and non-recyclable waste. (Photo by Gleb Garanich/Reuters)





A man dressed as Saint Nicholas talks to a boy at a historical site in the city Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine on December 15, 2019. (Photo by Dmytro Smolyenko/Ukrinform/Barcroft Media)





A serviceman of self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic examines a household, which locals said was damaged during recent shelling, outside rebel-held Horlivka, north of Donetsk, Ukraine, November 6, 2019. (Photo by Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters)





A view shows a World War Two monument to the fallen Red Army soldiers in the settlement of Petrovskoye, located in a disengagement area near the contact line in Donetsk region, November 4, 2019. (Photo by Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters)





People are seen in the village of Zolote, disengagement area of government and Russian-backed rebel troops, in the eastern Ukrainian region of Luhansk, Ukraine November 1, 2019. (Photo by Gleb Garanich/Reuters)





A serviceman inspects a coffin containing a deceased man being transported through a checkpoint from the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic to Ukrainian government-controlled territory for his funeral in Stanytsia Luhanska settlement, October 24, 2019. (Photo by Oleksandr Klymenko/Reuters)





Pedestrians walk in the center of Kiev during a sunny autumn day in the Ukrainian capital on November 5, 2019. (Photo by Sergei Supinsky/AFP Photo)





A drawing of an eight-year old Ukrainian boy, Maxim, depicting Russian President Vladimir Putin and an Ukrainian tank, is displayed on a billboard in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv on August 20, 2014. (Photo by Yurko Dyachyshyn/AFP Photo)





Ukrainian serviceman guard a checkpoint near the new line of contact in Zolote, Luhansk region, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, November 2, 2019. The weaponry pullback finally began after President Volodymyr who won office in April on a pledge to end the war, visited the area around the eastern village of Zolote and confronted armed veterans who came there to try to hamper the weapons pullback. (Photo by Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo)





Activists of various nationalist parties carry torches and a portrait of Stepan Bandera during a rally in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, January 1, 2020. The rally was organized to mark the birth anniversary of Stepan Bandera, founder of a rebel army that fought against the Soviet regime and who was assassinated in Germany in 1959. (Photo by Efrem Lukatsky/AP Photo)





A Ukrainian soldier eats in a trench in the front line near the town of Novoluhanske in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, Monday, December 9, 2019. A long-awaited summit in Paris on Monday aims to find a way to end the war in eastern Ukraine, a conflict that after five years and 14,000 lives lost has emboldened the Kremlin and reshaped European geopolitics. (Photo by Vitali Komar/AP Photo)





Activists of Ukrainian far-right movements attack police officers during a protest of agricultural workers against land reform in Kiev, Ukraine on December 17, 2019. (Photo by Valentyn Ogirenko/Reuters)





Ukrainian police officers take cover during clashes with activists of far-right movements following a protest of agricultural workers against land reform in Kiev, Ukraine on December 17, 2019. (Photo by Valentyn Ogirenko/Reuters)





Activists of Ukrainian far-right movements attack police officers during a protest of agricultural workers against land reform in Kiev, Ukraine on December 17, 2019. (Photo by Valentyn Ogirenko/Reuters)





Ukrainian Ivan Katyshev - who was made prisoner - is embraced by his mother Lyudmila after being exchanged during a prisoner exchange between Ukraine and pro-Russian rebels near the Mayorsk checkpoint on December 29, 2019. (Photo by Genya Savilov/AFP Photo)





Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy welcomes a Ukrainian serviceman, who was exchanged during a prisoners of war (POWs) swap with the separatist self-proclaimed republics, at the Boryspil International Airport outside Kiev, Ukraine on December 29, 2019. (Photo by Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/Handout via Reuters)





A Ukrainian serviceman patrols by a destroyed coal mine of Butovka at the front line with Russia-backed separatists not far from the town of Avdiivka, Donetsk region on November 7, 2019. Ukraine's army and Kremlin-backed separatists on November 8, 2019 postponed the planned pullback of troops in the war-torn east by 24 hours, international monitors said. “The withdrawal of forces and hardware will start on Saturday, 9 November 2019, at 12:00” Kiev time (1000 GMT), Martin Sajdik, an Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) envoy, said in a statement. (Photo by Anatolii Stepanov/AFP Photo)





A relative of a victim of the Ukraine International Airlines PS 752 plane that crashed after taking off from Tehran's Imam Khomeini airport reacts at Boryspil International Airport, outside Kiev, Ukraine on January 8, 2020. (Photo by Serhii Nuzhnenko/Reuters)





Ukrainians sing Christmas carols as they carry decorated stars of Bethlehem and sheaves of wheat in their hands during a parade in downtown Lviv, West Ukraine, 06 January 2020. Ukrainian believers celebrate the Orthodox Christmas Day according to the old Julian calendar on 07 January. (Photo by Mykola Tys/EPA/EFE)