People use their phones while they gather in a metro station during an air raid alarm, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, December 21, 2022. (Photo by Felipe Dana/AP Photo)





Ukrainian soldiers ride in a Humvee in Bakhmut, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Wednesday, December 21, 2022. (Photo by Libkos/AP Photo)





A local resident Oleksandra Koshkina, 85, sits in a car as she comebacks in her village of Torske near a frontline, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, Donetsk region, Ukraine on December 20, 2022.. (Photo by Oleksandr Ratushniak/Reuters)





This aerial photograph taken on December 20, 2022, shows destruction in the village of Bohorodychne, eastern Ukraine. Bohorodychne is a village in Donetsk region that came under heavy attack by Russian forces in June 2022, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. On August 17, 2022 the Russian forces captured the village. The Armed Forces of Ukraine announced on September 12, 2022 that they took back the control over the village. A few resident came back to restore their destroyed houses and live in the village. (Photo by Ionut Iordachescu/AFP Photo)





This photograph taken on December 20, 2022, shows a dog standing in front of a destroyed house in the village of Bohorodychne, eastern Ukraine. Bohorodychne is a village in Donetsk region that came under heavy attack by Russian forces in June 2022, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. On August 17, 2022 the Russian forces captured the village. The Armed Forces of Ukraine announced on September 12, 2022 that they took back the control over the village. A few resident came back to restore their destroyed houses and live in the village. (Photo by Sameer Al-Doumy/AFP Photo)





Smoke billows from a building on fire after a Russian attack in Bakhmut, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Wednesday, December 21, 2022. (Photo by Libkos/AP Photo)





People wait to board a metro train at a subway station decorated with a picture of a Ukrainian serviceman firing flowers in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, December 21, 2022. (Photo by Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo)





President Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy hold a news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, December 21, 2022. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/AP Photo)





President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky addresses a joint meeting of Congress in the House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol on December 21, 2022 in Washington, DC. In his first known trip outside of Ukraine since Russia invaded, Zelensky met with U.S. President Joe Biden and outlined Ukraine's request for continued military aid. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)





Vice President Kamala Harris and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., right, react as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy presents lawmakers with a Ukrainian flag autographed by front-line troops in Bakhmut, in Ukraine's contested Donetsk province, as he addresses a joint meeting of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, December 21, 2022. (Photo by Jacquelyn Martin/AP Photo)





A honor guard soldier stands at attention during a memorial religious service for those killed in the 1989 anti-communist uprising in University Square, in Bucharest, Romania, Wednesday, December 21, 2022. Participants and relatives of those killed marked the 33rd anniversary of the anti-communist uprising which started in Bucharest on Dec. 21, 1989 and left more than one thousand people dead and ended the rule of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. (Photo by Andreea Alexandru/AP Photo)





French President's wife Brigitte Macron (R), reacts next to French Justice Minister Eric Dupond-Moretti (2ndL), as they talk to the press while presenting a Golden Retriever trained as a legal assistant dog for minor victims at Orleans' courthouse, in Orleans, central France, on December 20, 2022. (Photo by Jean-Francois Monier/AFP Photo)





Migrants stand near the border fence, after crossing the Rio Bravo river, to turn themselves in to U.S. Border Patrol agents and request asylum in El Paso, Texas, U.S., as seen from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico on December 21, 2022. (Photo by Jose Luis Gonzalez/Reuters)





U.S. military guard El Paso's border with Mexico, seen from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Tuesday, December 20, 2022. The Supreme Court issued a temporary order to keep pandemic-era limits on asylum-seekers in place, though it could be brief, as conservative-leaning states push to maintain a measure that allows officials to expel many but not all asylum-seekers. (Photo by Christian Chavez/AP Photo)





A member of the Texas National Guard stands guard on the banks of the Rio Bravo river, the border between the United States and Mexico, with the purpose of reinforcing border security and inhibiting the crossing of migrants into the United States, after the U.S. Supreme Court said Title 42 should stand as is for now, as seen from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico on December 20, 2022. (Photo by Carlos Barria/Reuters)





Ambulance workers and supporters gather outside Kenton Ambulance Station during a strike over pay and conditions on December 21, 2022 in London, United Kingdom. Ambulance workers across Wales and England are striking today over pay and working conditions. This comes as the service is struggling with staffing shortages, staff retention and the highest sickness absence rates among all NHS organisations. The target time of 60-minute handovers from ambulance to A&E that NHS England stipulated in March 2022 has not been met and patients are increasingly being held in ambulances awaiting treatment. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)





Ambulance workers and nurses are striking this week as they demand a salary rise in London on December 21, 2022. Nursing union gives ministers until Thursday to open pay talks as first signs emerge of bid to end dispute and prevent NHS collapse. (Photo by Velar Grant/ZUMA Press Wire/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Two activists of the environmental group drove a lift truck in front of the Christmas tree on Pariser Platz at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin on December 21, 2022. They unfurled a banner and then removed the top of the Christmas tree – “It's just the top of the Christmas tree” is written on the banner of the activists of the “Last Generation”. (Photo by Paul Zinken/dpa)





Pope Francis talks with nuns during the weekly General Audience in the Paul VI Audience Hall, in Vatican City, 21 December 2022. (Photo by Fabio Frustaci/EPA/EFE)





Black smoke rises from a fire at a hydrocarbon depot in Barranquilla, Colombia, on December 21, 2022. A firefighter died Wednesday while battling a fire in a hydrocarbon depot in the port city of Barranquilla, in northern Colombia, according to local authorities who are struggling to put out the intense flames. (Photo by Jesus Rico/AFP Photo)





Medical workers in protective gear escort an elderly patient on a wheelchair followed by family members as they leave a fever clinic at a hospital in Beijing on Monday, December 19, 2022. A Chinese health official said that the country would only count those who died from pneumonia or respiratory failure in the official COVID death toll, a narrow definition that would certainly limit the numbers of deaths reported, as the country's reopening progresses and cases have soared. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)





Vega-C rocket lifting off from its launch pad at the Kourou space base, French Guiana, Tuesday, December 20, 2022. The launch of a European Vega C rocket carrying two Airbus satellites failed less than three minutes after lift-off from the European base in French Guiana on Wednesday. (Photo by JM Guillon/ESA via AP Photo)





The Intercity-Express ICE high-speed train is seen during opening of the extended hall in the ICE depot in Rummelsburg in Berlin, Germany, 20 December 2022. After five years of construction the expansion of the Deutsche Bahn vehicle hall in the ICE plant in Berlin-Rummelsburg has been completed. (Photo by Filip Singer/EPA/EFE)





A person wearing an animal mask touches the stones during winter solstice celebrations at Stonehenge near Amesbury, Britain on, December 22, 2022. (Photo by Henry Nicholls/Reuters)





Partial view of a sand nativity scene, by Paraguayan sculptor Oscar Arena, at the Asuncion waterfront, Paraguay on December 22, 2022, during preparations for Christmas celebration. (Photo by Norberto Duarte/AFP Photo)





Theatre actors perform to children at the Dzherelo rehabilitation center during celebrations for Saint Nicholas Day, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, December 19, 2022. In a country where children have seen the horrors of a 10-month war, there are people trying to bring some peace and happiness to kids, at least for a moment during this holiday season in Ukraine. That has been happening this week in the outskirts of Kyiv at what used to be the upscale Venice hotel. Now it’s a rehabilitation center housing children who have experienced the horrors of the Russian invasion. (Photo by Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo)





Tourists look at a house decorated with Christmas lights in the Dyker Heights neighborhood, Wednesday, December 21, 2022, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. (Photo by Julia Nikhinson/AP Photo)





A diver dressed in a Santa Claus costumes waves to young visitors at the Sea Life Bangkok Ocean World aquarium in Bangkok on December 21, 2022. (Photo by Jack Taylor/AFP Photo)





This aerial photograph shows a woman dressed as Santa Claus steering a paddleboard close to the Mare e Sol beach in Pietrosella on December 20, 2022 on the French Mediterranean island of Corsica. (Photo by Pascal Pochard-Casabianca/AFP Photo)





A man dressed as Santa Claus (Father Christmas) performs at a Christmas village adorned with thousands of lights, in La Bruyere, Beauvechain, Belgium on December 20, 2022. (Photo by Yves Herman/Reuters)





The traditionnal giant Christmas tree of the Galeries Lafayette department store stands under its great dome in Paris, France, 21 December 2022. (Photo by Christophe Petit Tesson/EPA/EFE)