A patient with coronavirus breathes with an oxygen mask in a hospital intensive care unit in Stryi, Ukraine, on Tuesday, September 29, 2020. Coronavirus infections in Ukraine began surging in late summer, and the ripples are hitting towns in the western part of the country. The government wants to avoid imposing a new lockdown, but officials acknowledge that the rising infections could make it necessary. (Photo by Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo)





Dr. Oleh Hornostayev walks through a corridor at the hospital in Stryi, Ukraine, on Tuesday, September 29, 2020. (Photo by Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo)





A medical worker collects a sample for COVID-19 testing from a woman outside a hospital in the village of Toporivtsi, Ukraine, on Friday, October 2, 2020. (Photo by Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo)





A medical worker walks past a room as a coronavirus patient watches TV at a hospital in Stebnyk, Ukraine, on Tuesday, September 29, 2020. As coronavirus cases increase, every bed in the hospital in this city in western Ukraine is in use and its chief doctor is watching the surge with alarm and anguish. (Photo by Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo)





A nurse, center, moves a bed with a coronavirus patient in a hospital intensive care unit in Stryi, western Ukraine, on Tuesday, September 29, 2020. (Photo by Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo)





Medical workers move the body of a patient who died from the coronavirus at a hospital in Stebnyk, Ukraine, on Wednesday, September 30, 2020. (Photo by Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo)





People look an art installation to mark 79th anniversary of the 1941 Babi Yar massacre at a menorah monument close to a Babi Yar ravine where tens of thousands of Jews were killed during WWII, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, September 29, 2020. Ukraine marked the 79th anniversary of the 1941 Babi Yar massacre. (Photo by Efrem Lukatsky/AP Photo)





A Jewish man touches an installation opened at Babyn Yar on September 29, 2020 during a ceremony marking the 79th anniversary of the beginning of mass execution of Jews by the Nazis in September 1941. The Babyn Yar (Babiy Yar) ravine in Kiev was the location where Nazis shot dead several tens of thousands of Jews. (Photo by Sergei Supinsky/AFP Photo)





A Jewish pilgrim, who plans to enter Ukraine for a pilgrimage from the territory of Belarus, sits in front of Ukrainian service members near Novi Yarylovychi crossing point in Chernihiv Region, Ukraine on September 15, 2020. (Photo by BelaPAN via Reuters)





A student of the Olympic College, Ivan Poddubny performs during a protest against the reorganization of the college in front of the parliament building in Kyiv, Ukraine on September 15, 2020. (Photo by Gleb Garanich/Reuters)





Students of Kiev's Olympic College perform during a rally in front of the Parliament building in Kiev, Ukraine, 15 September 2020. Students were protesting against the reorganization of the college, at risk of being closed, and the land where it rises which could end up for sale along with the facility's stadium. (Photo by Sergey Dolzhenko/EPA/EFE)





An elderly woman begs for money in an underpass in central Kyiv, Ukraine on September 11, 2020. (Photo by Gleb Garanich/Reuters)





A woman jumps out of a street art object in the center of the Ukrainian capital of Kiev during a warm autumn day on September 25, 2020. (Photo by Sergei Supinsky/AFP Photo)





Activists burn flares during a protest against the joint inspection of a separation line, which was planned by Ukrainian government forces, pro-Russian rebels and OSCE officials in the vicinity of Shumy settlement in Donetsk Region, near the residence of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy outside Kyiv, Ukraine on September 10, 2020. (Photo by Valentyn Ogirenko/Reuters)





Ukrainian service members walk on the tarmac of an airfield during joint air drills conducted by Ukrainian and U.S. special operation military forces, as part of a broader cooperation aimed at enhancing interoperability between divisions, near Vinnytsia, Ukraine on September 18, 2020. (Photo by Gleb Garanich/Reuters)





A healthcare worker disinfects a street near the tomb of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov during the celebration of Rosh Hashanah holiday, the Jewish New Year, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Uman, Ukraine on September 19, 2020. (Photo by Valentyn Ogirenko/Reuters)





A helicopter operates a water bucket to extinguish forest fire in Luhansk region, Ukraine, on October 2, 2020. (Photo by Sergii Kharchenko/Ukrainian Governmental Press Service/Handout via Reuters)





People walk past a poster with thanks to the doctors amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in central Kyiv, Ukraine October 5, 2020. Doctor Ivan Venzhinovich, who treated patients with coronavirus and whose portrait is on billboards throughout Ukraine, died of pneumonia, local media reported. (Photo by Gleb Garanich/Reuters)





In this TV grab released by Ukraine's Emergency Situation Ministry, an AN-26 military plane bursts into flames after it crashed in the town of Chuguyiv close to Kharkiv, Ukraine, late Friday, September 25, 2020. Among 28 people on board 22 people were killed. (Photo by Emergency Situation Ministry via AP Photo)





Rescuers inspect the crash site of the An-26 plane near of Chuguev city of Kharkiv's area, Ukraine, 26 September 2020. The An-26 plane of the Ukrainian Air Force crashed while landing at the Chuguev airport in Kharkiv region. Asides from the crew, 21 cadets of the Kharkiv National University of the Air Force were on board because it was a training flight according to preliminary information. A fire broke out during the plane crash. 22 people were killed, two were injured. A total of 28 persons were on board as local media report. (Photo by Sergey Khrupov/EPA/EFE/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Servicemen cover the coffins of cadets of the Kharkiv National Air Force University who died in an Antonov An-26 transport plane crash with Ukrainian flags during a farewell ceremony at the central square in Kharkiv on October 6, 2020. (Photo by Sergey Bobok/AFP Photo)





A local resident stands next to a destroyed building following a forest fire in the village of Syrotyne in Luhansk region, Ukraine on October 2, 2020. (Photo by Sergii Kharchenko/Ukrainian Governmental Press Service/Handout via Reuters)





An activist reacts as he wrote sign “Impeachment” during a rally in front of the Presidential residence near Kiev, Ukraine, 10 September 2020. Activists protest against the joint inspection with pro-Russian militants representatives the Ukrainian army positions in the area of the inhabited locality of Shumy which was planned on 10 September because it legalizes them like the subject of conflict and moves Russia from conflict side to observer status. The participants in the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG) meeting agreed on a joint inspection in the area of the inhabited locality of Shumy with the participation of representatives of the OSCE coordinator and pro-Russian militants on 09 September. The joint inspection has been suspended on 10 September due the Ukrainian side had received a number of demands that contradict each other, as well as distorting the nature of the ceasefire agreements and humiliating the OSCE as a reliable and objective mediator as the presidential office reported. (Photo by Sergey Dolzhenko/EPA/EFE)





Ukrainian soldiers hold a dog wearing protective glasses during the Rapid Trident – 2020 military exercises on the Yavoriv training ground, near the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, Ukraine, 24 September 2020. Some 4,000 soldiers from nine countries including USA, Germany, Poland, United Kingdom, Romania, Canada, Denmark, Lithuania, and Ukraine take part in the joint Ukrainian-American command and staff exercise Rapid Trident – 2020 training. The training program is part of a long-term strategy improving Ukrainian defense potential and increasing the professionalism of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. (Photo by Mykola Tys/EPA/EFE)