A US Army M1A2 SEP tank participates in the Strong Europe Tank Challenge 2017 at the military training area in Grafenwoehr, Germany, 12 May 2017. Six North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) nations and partner nations, Austria, France, Germany, Poland, Ukraine and the USA are taking part in this competing exercise. (Photo by Christian Bruna/EPA)

Russia's President Vladimir Putin (L) reacts as he talks to Belarus' President Alexander Lukashenko before a meeting on resolving the Ukrainian crisis in Minsk, February 11, 2015. A document seen by Reuters at talks on the Ukraine crisis suggested the sides may agree to end fighting in eastern Ukraine with a ceasefire starting on February 14, the withdrawal of heavy weapons and the creation of a security zone. (Photo by Mykola Lazarenko/Reuters)

Models prepare for a presentation of the creations by Ukrainian designer Jean Gritsfeldt during Ukrainian Fashion Week at the railway station in Kiev, Ukraine on September 2, 2018. The fashion event presents 2018/19 collections by Ukrainian and international designers from 01 to 05 September 2018. (Photo by Valentyn Ogirenko/Reuters)

A man helps an elderly woman to run for cover after heavy shelling on the only escape route used by locals, while Russian troops advance towards the capital, in Irpin, near Kyiv, Ukraine on March 6, 2022. (Photo by Carlos Barria/Reuters)

Ukraine's Taisiia Onofriichuk performs with the clubs as she competes in the rhytmic gymnastics' individual all-around qualification during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at the Porte de la Chapelle Arena in Paris, on August 8, 2024. (Photo by Mike Blake/Reuters)

A view of the cemetery where the graves of the soldiers who lost their lives in the Russia-Ukraine war are located as daily life continues in shadow of war in Kursk, Russia on August 18, 2024. (Photo by Vladimir Aleksandrov/Anadolu via Getty Images)

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A woman learns how to use an AK-47 assault rifle during a civilians self-defence course in the outskirts of Lviv, western Ukraine, on March 4, 2022. The Russian army occupied on March 4, 2022 the Ukrainian nuclear power plant of Zaporozhie (south), the largest in Europe, where bombings in the night have raised fears of a disaster as more than 1.2 million people have fled Ukraine into neighbouring countries since Russia launched its full-scale invasion on February 24, United Nations figures showed on March 4, 2022. (Photo by Daniel Leal/AFP Photo)