Ukrainian soldiers carry firewood in a hospital at Donbass, Ukraine on December 27, 2022. (Photo by Diego Herrera Carcedo/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)




Smoke billows after Russian attacks in the outskirts of Bakhmut, Ukraine, Tuesday, December 27, 2022. (Photo by Libkos/AP Photo)





Volodymyr Dubrovsliy, a disabled pensioner, lights candles in his house after living without electricity for more than four months in Kupiansk, Kharkiv region, Ukraine, Wednesday, December 28, 2022. (Photo by Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo)





A Ukrainian service member is seen at a position near the border with Belarus, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Zhytomyr region, Ukraine on December 27, 2022. (Photo by Viacheslav Ratynskyi/Reuters)





Ukrainian service members rest inside a dugout at a position near the border with Belarus, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Zhytomyr region, Ukraine on December 27, 2022. (Photo by Viacheslav Ratynskyi/Reuters)





A visitor looks at artworks made from used armor plates from bulletproof vests of Ukrainian soldiers during the “ArtArmor” exhibition in the Western Ukrainian city of Lviv, 27 December 2022. A group of Ukrainian artists created 12 art objects from used armor plates that have already successfully fulfilled their mission in battle – stopping enemy bullets and shrapnel on a front line. The armor plates received a second life in the form of artwork, and their sale will allow volunteers to send money to the Ukrainian army. Russian troops entered Ukraine on 24 February 2022, starting a conflict that has provoked destruction and a humanitarian crisis. (Photo by Mykola Tys/EPA/EFE)





A Ukrainian serviceman holds the photo of his comrade during the funeral ceremony of Volodymyr Yezhov killed in a battlefield with Russian forces at St. Volodymyr Cathedral in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, December 27, 2022. Yezhov was a game designer in the development of the game Cossacks 2. He was also one of the authors of the game S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky. Yezhov was also one of the most famous Ukrainian e-sportsmen – played StarCraft under the nickname Fresh. Since the Russian invasion, Volodymyr Yezhov went to the frontline and fought as part of the volunteer squadron. (Photo by Efrem Lukatsky/AP Photo)





A local resident Yana embraces a friend as she reacts next to her mother's house damaged during a Russian missile strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine on December 29, 2022. (Photo by Valentyn Ogirenko/Reuters)





A man passes by a barricade made of trucks loaded with stones that was erected during the night on a street in northern, Serb-dominated part of ethnically divided town of Mitrovica, Kosovo, Tuesday, December 27, 2022. Serbia on Monday placed its security troops on the border with Kosovo on “the full state of combat readiness”, ignoring NATO's calls for calming down of tensions between the two wartime Balkan foes. (Photo by Bojan Slavkovic/AP Photo)





A roadblock is seen in Rudare, near the northern part of the ethnically-divided town of Mitrovica, Kosovo on December 28, 2022. (Photo by Florion Goga/Reuters)





Kosovo police officers stand at the closed Merdare border crossing between Kosovo and Serbia on Wednesday, December 28, 2022. Kosovo closed the border crossing in Merdare, following an erected barricade by Serb protesters inside Serbia late Tuesday night, the third official border crossing closed this month following rising tensions between Kosovo and Serbia. (Photo by Visar Kryeziu/AP Photo)





A protester sings as she takes part in a demonstration to pay tribute to the Enghien Street shooting victims in Paris on December 23, 2022, and to support the Kurdish community in Paris on December 28, 2022. A 69-year-old French man suspected of killing three Kurds and injuring three others in a Paris shooting has confessed to a “pathological” hatred for foreigners, Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau said on December 25, 2022. The suspect spent nearly a day in a psychiatric facility on December 25, before being returned to police custody on the same day. (Photo by Firas Abdullah/AFP Photo)





George, 5, a migrant boy from Venezuela who is traveling with his family and trying to seek asylum in the United States, plays with a Captain America doll at the border between Mexico and the United States, while members of the Texas National Guard stand guard on the banks of the Rio Bravo river, with the purpose of reinforcing border security and inhibiting the crossing of migrants to the United States, seen from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico on December 27, 2022. (Photo by Jose Luis Gonzalez/Reuters)





Peruvian shamans equipped with coca leaves, swords, smoking ceramic pots, incense, and a live snake hold a poster of Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador while executing a ritual at the top of a hill over Lima to deliver their predictions for the coming year on December 28, 2022. (Photo by Cris Bouroncle/AFP Photo)





A nun sits under the columns in St Peter's Square at The Vatican on December 28, 2022. Former pontiff Benedict XVI, 95, is “very ill”, Pope Francis said on December 28, as he urged people to pray for him before going to be by his side. (Photo by Filippo Monteforte/AFP Photo)





In this image taken by drone, houses along the shores of Lake Erie, near Fort Erie, Ontario, remain covered in ice Tuesday, December 27, 2022, following a winter storm that swept through much of Ontario. (Photo by Nick Iwanyshyn/The Canadian Press via AP Photo)





A “let’s go Buffalo” sign is seen behind an abandoned car on the road following a winter storm in Buffalo, New York, U.S., December 27, 2022. (Photo by Lindsay DeDario/Reuters)





A Southwest Airlines traveler looks for her baggage in a pile of lost suitcases after an arctic blast and a massive winter storm dubbed Elliott swept over much of the United States in the lead-up to the Christmas holiday weekend, at Chicago Midway International Airport in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., December 27, 2022. (Photo by Kamil Krzaczynski/Reuters)





A car sits burried after a winter storm rolled through Western New York Wednesday, December 28, 2022, in Buffalo N.Y. (Photo by Jeffrey T. Barnes/AP Photo)





Volunteers of the Israel Antiquities Authority look for archaeological finds in the Murabba'at cave in the Judean Desert near Metzuki Dargot village, close to the Dead Sea, Israel, 28 December 2022. The Israel Antiquities Authority is in the midst of searching and exploring dozens of caves in the Judean Desert area in order to find antiquities from different periods, with the main expectation being to find pieces of the Dead Sea Scrolls. (Photo by Abir Sultan/EPA/EFE/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Darts fans in fancy dress pose for a photograph as they arrive on day nine of the World Darts Championship at Alexandra Palace on December 28, 2022 in London, England. (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images)





Children play on a digital art installation titled “Rapidly Rotating Bouncing Spheres in the Caterpillar House”, at the newly opened “teamLab Massless” museum in Beijing, Monday, December 26, 2022. The “teamLab Massless” by Tokyo-based art collective teamLab create the digital art museum showcasing various interactive artworks inside a shopping mall in the capital city of Beijing. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)





Revellers dressed in mock military garb take part in the traditional “Els Enfarinats” (The Floured) festival, in the town of Ibi, Alicante Province, Spain on December 28, 2022. (Photo by Eva Manez/Reuters)





Revellers dressed in mock military garb take part in “Els Enfarinats” food-battle in the southeastern Spanish town of Ibi on December 28, 2022. (Photo by Jaime Reina/AFP Photo)





Revellers dressed in mock military garb take part in “Els Enfarinats” food-battle in the southeastern Spanish town of Ibi on December 28, 2022. In this 200-year-old traditional winter festival, the participants – known as Els Enfarinats (those covered in flour) – dress in military clothes and stage a mock coup d'etat as they battle using flour, eggs and firecrackers outside the city town hall as part of the celebrations of the Day of the Innocents, a traditional day in Spain for pulling pranks. (Photo by Jaime Reina/AFP Photo)





A robot “Xiao Le” plays piano for a citizen at a restaurant in Wensan Digital district in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province, December 28, 2022. It is understood that the robot “Xiao Le” has a high-precision visual perception system, which can accurately locate the piano keys, face and emotion recognition. At the same time, the robot “Xiao Le” also has a robot arm and a bionic manipulator composed of multiple joints, which can complete the humanoid action with multiple degrees of freedom. Combined with the freedom of waist, head and feet, it can play in the full range of 88 keys, and realize the humanoid piano performance with pedal linkage. (Photo credit should read CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images)