People play with a dog near the pond in Sokolniki park during hot weather in Moscow, Russia on August 5, 2022. (Photo by Evgenia Novozhenina/Reuters)





People walk in the Red Square during a hot day in Moscow, Russia on August 5, 2022. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)





Women walk past a fountain during a hot day in Moscow, Russia on August 5, 2022. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)





Teenagers play in the pond in Sokolniki Park during hot weather in Moscow, Russia on August 5, 2022. (Photo by Evgenia Novozhenina/Reuters)





A honour guard stands guard near the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier during a hot day in Moscow, Russia on August 5, 2022. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)





People walk on a viewpoint in Zaryadye Park with the Kremlin in the background during a hot day in Moscow, Russia on August 5, 2022. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)





A participant gestures during the Fontanka-SUP stand up paddle boarding festival in Saint Petersburg, Russia on August 6, 2022. (Photo by Anton Vaganov/Reuters)





People prepare to start on their stand-up paddle (SUP) boards at Moyka River during annual costumed “Fontanka” SUP-boards festival in St. Petersburg, Russia, Saturday, August 6, 2022. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)





People steer their stand-up paddle (SUP) boards along Fontanka River during annual costumed “Fontanka” SUP-boards festival in St. Petersburg, Russia, Saturday, August 6, 2022. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)





Customers and tourists line up to buy an ice-cream near a fountain decorated with Astrakhan watermelons and Asian melons inside the GUM department store in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, August 7, 2022. Markets selling Astrakhan watermelons and Asian melons traditionally open in Moscow in August. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)





A passenger plane is seen with the full moon behind in Moscow, Russia on August 9, 2022. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)





A couple walk past the Jeans'a boutique opened instead of Levi's (Levi Strauss & Co) American boutique closed due to sanctions in the GUM department store in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, August 9, 2022. Russians are snapping up Western fashion and furniture this week as H&M and IKEA sell off the last of their inventory in Russia, moving forward with their exit from the country after it sent troops into Ukraine. Sweden-based H&M and Netherlands-based IKEA had paused sales in Russia after the military operation began and are now looking to unload their stocks of clothing and furnishings as they wind down operations there. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)





Marina Ovsyannikova, a former Russian state TV journalist who quit after making an on-air protest of Russia's military operation in Ukraine, reads a paper sitting in a court room during a hearing in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, August 11, 2022. A court in Russia on Thursday ordered to place Ovsyannikova under house arrest for nearly two months pending investigation and trial on the charges of spreading false information about Russia's armed forces. If convicted, Ovsyannikova faces up to 10 years in prison under a new law that penalizes statements against the military and that was enacted shortly after Russian troops moved into Ukraine. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)





A person walks past a billboard reading “Sign up for a volunteer team” encouraging Russians to sign up for the Tiger volunteer battalion, at the far-eastern Primorye region in a street of Vladivostok, Russia, Thursday, August 11, 2022. Colorful billboards and ads on public transport in different Russian regions state that "heroes are wanted" and urge Russian men to join the professional army ranks. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





People watch fireworks explode during Rostec Fireworks Festival in Moscow, Russia on August 13, 2022. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)





Russia's President Vladimir Putin and Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu arrive to attend the opening of the Army 2022 International Military and Technical Forum in the Patriot Park outside Moscow, Russia, Monday, August 15, 2022. Putin vowed to strengthen Russia's military cooperation with its allies. (Photo by Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP Photo)





Participants, including members of Youth Army movement, attend a ceremony opening the international military-technical forum Army-2022 at Patriot Congress and Exhibition Centre in the Moscow region, Russia on August 15, 2022. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)





T-72 B3 tank operated by a crew from Uzbekistan drives during the Tank Biathlon competition at the International Army Games 2022 in Alabino, outside Moscow, Russia on August 16, 2022. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)





Remains of the Tochka-U missile are on display during the exhibition of weaponry and equipment that, according to the Russian defence ministry, were captured during the military conflict in Ukraine, at the international military-technical forum Army-2022 at Patriot Congress and Exhibition Centre in the Moscow region, Russia on August 17, 2022. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)





Exhibition's guides pose on a tank during the Army-2022 International Military-Technical Forum at the Russian Armed Forces' Patriot Park in Kubinka, outside Moscow, on August 16, 2022. (Photo by Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP Photo)