Russian President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with a soldier as he visits a military training centre of the Western Military District for mobilised reservists as Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, center, smiles in Ryazan Region, Russia, Thursday, October 20, 2022. The mobilized reservists that Russian President Vladimir Putin visited last week at a firing range southeast of Moscow looked picture-perfect. (Photo by Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP Photo)





People wearing medieval armour components take part in a friendly fight event held in a basketball court to keep the medieval street fights alive in Russian capital Moscow on October 23, 2022. The “Tushino maneuvers”, or friendship fights between clubs, were created to preserve the traditional aspects of medieval street battles and pass them on to younger generations. These fights quickly gained popularity in the city. The warriors, who gather on specific days of the week and engage in combat while clad in steel armor, are highly regarded and admired by the populace. (Photo by Pelagiya Tikhanova/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





A man walks past a banner displayed the Kremlin's Spasskaya tower and skyscrapers of Moscow's International Business Centre (Moskva City) in central Moscow on October 24, 2022. (Photo by Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP Photo)





Pedestrians walk past a poster displaying a Russian soldier with a slogan reading “Glory to the Heroes of Russia” decorating a bus stop in Moscow on October 24, 2022. (Photo by Yuri Kadobnov/AFP Photo)





Police and the Russian National Guard (Rosgvardia) servicemen patrol Red Square in front of the Spasskaya tower of the Kremlin in Moscow on October 24, 2022, as part of security reinforcement measures. (Photo by Alexander Nemenov/AFP Photo)





A pedestrian walks past a poster displaying Russian soldiers with a slogan reading “Army of Russia – Army of professionals” decorating a street in Moscow on October 24, 2022. (Photo by Yuri Kadobnov/AFP Photo)





A photograph taken on October 25, 2022 shows barberry bush leaves covered with hoarfrost in the garden outside Moscow early morning, as the air temperatures in the Russian capital dropped below zero during the night. (Photo by Yuri Kadobnov/AFP Photo)





Smoke rises from chimney of a gas boiler house during partial solar eclipse in Moscow, 25 October 2022. From Moscow the sun will appear about 70 percent eclipsed as the moon passes between the Earth and the sun, obscuring the sun from view. (Photo by Maxim Shipenkov/EPA/EFE/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A photograph taken on October 25, 2022 shows a leaf covered with hoarfrost in the garden outside Moscow early morning, as the air temperatures in the Russian capital dropped below zero during the night. (Photo by Yuri Kadobnov/AFP Photo)





WNBA star and two-time Olympic gold medalist Brittney Griner is seen on the bottom part of a TV screen as she waits to appear in a video link provided by the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service a courtroom prior to a hearing at the Moscow Regional Court in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, October 25, 2022. A Russian court on Tuesday started hearing American basketball star Brittney Griner's appeal against her nine-year prison sentence for drug possession. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)





A fragment of a monument to Soviet World War Two commander Marshal Georgy Zhukov is pictured during a partial solar eclipse in central Moscow, Russia on October 25, 2022. (Photo by Shamil Zhumatov/Reuters)





A still image from video, released by the Russian Defence Ministry, shows what it said to be Russia's Yars intercontinental ballistic missile launched during exercises held by the country's strategic nuclear forces at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia, in this image taken from handout footage released October 26, 2022. (Photo by Russian Defence Ministry/Handout via Reuters)





A man reacts during a commemoration ceremony for the 20th anniversary of the Nord-Ost musical hostage drama near the Dubrovka Theatre in Moscow on October 26, 2022. Twenty years after Chechen separatists seized a crowded theatre in Moscow, spurring a hostage standoff that ended with more than one hundred dead, the survivors are haunted by the memories and plagued by unanswered questions. (Photo by Yuri Kadobnov/AFP Photo)





A woman takes a stroll through a park on an autumn day in Moscow on October 27, 2022. (Photo by Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP Photo)





A recruit takes his weapons following an instructor during a military training at a firing range in Volgograd region, Russia, Thursday, October 27, 2022. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





Russian President Vladimir Putin holds an umbrella as he stands waiting for Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan prior to their talks, at the Bocharov Ruchei residence in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russia, Monday, October 31, 2022. (Photo by Sergei Bobylev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP Photo)





Evacuees from Kherson gather upon their arrival at the railway station in Dzhankoi, Crimea, on Wednesday, November 2, 2022. Russian authorities have encouraged residents of Kherson to evacuate, warning that the city may come under massive Ukrainian shelling. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





A man, an evacuee from Kherson, looks through a bus window decorated with the letter Z, which has become a symbol of the Russian military, at the railway station in Dzhankoi, Crimea, on Wednesday, November 2, 2022. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





A girl, an evacuee from Kherson, holds her dog as she arrives at the railway station in Dzhankoi, Crimea, on Wednesday, November 2, 2022. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)