Pavel Gubarev, an activist of the “Club of Angry Patriots” nationalist group pickets outside the Meshchansky Court with a poster reading “Freedom to Strelkov, Glory to Russia!” during a hearing on the pre-trial arrest of Igor Strelkov, a retired security officer who led Moscow-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine in 2014, in Moscow, Russia, Friday, July 21, 2023. (Photo by Alexander Nemenov/Pool Photo via AP Photo)





In this photo taken from video released by the National Guard Troops Federal Service of the Russian Federation on Saturday, July 22, 2023, Russian Rosguardia (National Guard) servicemen work near a house where special forces killed a gunman who refused to surrender and fired at them in an elite cottage village in the Istra region, about 45 kilometers, less than 30 miles, west of Moscow, Russia. Russia's National Guard says security forces killed a heavily-armed gunman who broke into a private house in Moscow's suburbs and fired at them, reportedly threatening to march on the Kremlin. (Photo by National Guard Troops Federal Service of the Russian Federation via AP Photo)





A view shows a damaged building following a reported drone attack in Moscow, Russia on July 24, 2023. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)





Investigators examine an area next to a damaged building after a reported drone attack in Moscow, Russia, Monday, July 24, 2023. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





Members of the security services investigate the site of a damaged building following a reported drone attack in Moscow, Russia on July 24, 2023. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)





Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed shake hands during their meeting on the eve of the Russia Africa Summit in St. Petersburg, Russia, Wednesday, July 26, 2023. (Photo by TASS News Agency Host Pool Photo via AP Photo)





A woman walks along a flooded street during a heavy rain in Moscow, Russia on July 26, 2023. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)





People watch a TV screen broadcasting Russian President Vladimir Putin addressing the plenary session of the Russia-Africa Economic and Humanitarian Forum in St. Petersburg, Russia, Thursday, July 27, 2023. (Photo by TASS Host Photo Agency Pool Photo via AP Photo)





A crow sitting on a TV antenna is silhouetted against the moon in St. Petersburg, Russia, Friday, July 28, 2023. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)





People perform during the Archstoyanie 2023 festival in the village of Nikola-Lenivets, Kaluga region, Russia on July 29, 2023. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)





A view of a damaged office block of the Moscow International Business Center (Moskva City) following a reported drone attack in Moscow on July 30, 2023. Three Ukrainian drones were downed over Moscow early on July 30, 2023, Russia's defence ministry said, in an attack that briefly shut an international airport. While one of the drones was shot down on the city's outskirts, two others were “suppressed by electronic warfare” and smashed into an office complex. No one was injured. (Photo by Alexander Nemenov/AFP Photo)





A view of the damaged skyscraper in the “Moscow City” business district after a reported drone attack in Moscow, Russia, early Sunday, July 30, 2023. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





Members of the emergency services gather outside a damaged office building in Moscow, Russia on July 30, 2023, after a drone attack that Russian officials blamed on Ukraine. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)





Russia's Pacific Fleet warships parade off the port city of Vladivostok during the Navy Day celebrations on July 30, 2023. (Photo by Pavel Korolyov/AFP Photo)





Investigators examine an area next to a damaged building in the “Moscow City” business district after a reported drone attack in Moscow, Russia, early Tuesday, August 1, 2023. Ukrainian drones again targeted Moscow and its surroundings early Tuesday morning, the Russian military reported. Two of three launched were shot down outside Moscow, while one crashed into a skyscraper in the Moscow City business district, damaging the building’s facade. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





Emergency personnel work near a damaged office building in the Moscow City following a reported Ukrainian drone attack in Moscow, Russia on August 1, 2023. (Photo by Evgenia Novozhenina/Reuters)





Police officers stand near the Red Square in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, August 1, 2023. The glittering towers of the Moscow City business district were once symbols of the Russian capital's economic boom in the early 2000s. Now they are a sign of its vulnerability, following a series of drone attacks that rattled some Muscovites shaken and brought the war in Ukraine home to the seat of Russian power. (Photo by Dmitry Serebryakov/AP Photo)





The supermoon rises behind a statue of an angel fixed atop the Alexander Column at the Palace Square in St. Petersburg, Russia, Tuesday, August 1, 2023. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)





People steer their stand-up paddle (SUP) boards along the Griboedov Channel during the annual costumed 'Fontanka' SUP-boards festival in St. Petersburg, Russia, Saturday, August 5, 2023. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)





People crowd in waters of Moskva river during hot weather in Moscow, Russia on August 6, 2023. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)