A conscript says goodbye to family members through the window of a train carriage at a local railway station during departure for the garrisons, in Sevastopol, Crimea on November 9, 2022. (Photo by Alexey Pavlishak/Reuters)





Russian conscripts pictured at a railway station in Sevastopol before leaving to serve in the war, Crimea, 09 November 2022. In 2022, as part of the autumn conscription, the number of those called up for military service will be 120 thousand people. Male citizens of the Russian Federation aged 18 to 27 who have not previously completed military service fall under the autumn draft. Conscripts of the autumn conscription will not be sent to serve in the DPR, LPR, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions. (Photo by EPA/Stringer)





Children play near a monument to the Soviet tank T-62 in the courtyard of an apartment building in Omsk, Russia on November 9, 2022. (Photo by Alexey Malgavko/Reuters)





A squirrel peers out of a birdhouse it has settled in to spend the winter in the village of Podolye, 70km east of St. Petersburg, Russia, Tuesday, November 8, 2022. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)





Civilians evacuated from the Russian-controlled part of Kherson region of Ukraine sit inside a bus as they arrive at a local railway station in the town of Dzhankoi, Crimea on November 10, 2022. (Photo by Alexey Pavlishak/Reuters)





An invalid, evacuee from Kherson pets his cat waiting for someone who can helps him to leave a bus upon his arrival to Dzhankoi, Crimea, Thursday, November 10, 2022. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu ordered a troop withdrawal from Kherson and nearby areas on Wednesday after his top general in Ukraine reported that a loss of supply routes during Ukraine's southern counteroffensive made a defense “futile”. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





A woman carries a child as civilians evacuated from the Russian-controlled part of Kherson region of Ukraine arrive at a local railway station in the town of Dzhankoi, Crimea on November 10, 2022. (Photo by Alexey Pavlishak/Reuters)





A Russian serviceman adjusts unifirm of a conscript called up for military service during the annual autumn draft at a gathering point before departure for garrisons, in Omsk, Russia on November 10, 2022. (Photo by Alexey Malgavko/Reuters)





Russian conscripts called up for military service during the annual autumn draft line up at a gathering point before their departure for garrisons, in Omsk, Russia on November 10, 2022. (Photo by Alexey Malgavko/Reuters)





A band performs for Russian conscripts, called up for military service during the annual autumn draft, before their departure for garrisons, in Omsk, Russia on November 10, 2022. (Photo by Alexey Malgavko/Reuters)





Russian conscripts called up for military service during the annual autumn draft smoke at a gathering point before their departure for garrisons, in Omsk, Russia on November 10, 2022. (Photo by Alexey Malgavko/Reuters)





Russian conscripts called up for military service during the annual autumn draft sit inside a train during their departure for garrisons, in Omsk, Russia on November 10, 2022. (Photo by Alexey Malgavko/Reuters)





Russian conscripts called up for military service during the annual autumn draft say goodbye to their relatives before departure for garrisons, at a railway station in Omsk, Russia on November 10, 2022. (Photo by Alexey Malgavko/Reuters)





A street performer wearing 18th century costume and earning money by posing for photos, walks at the Palace Square in St. Petersburg, Russia, Thursday, November 10, 2022. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)





Military volunteers and civilians take a shooting training at a range in Rostov region on November 11, 2022, amid the ongoing Russian military action in Ukraine. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)





A man holds a mobile phone on the banks of the Moskva river embankment in central Moscow on November 14, 2022. (Photo by Yuri Kadobnov/AFP Photo)





A car drives along a road in the Siberian town of Tara in the Omsk region, Russia on November 14, 2022. (Photo by Alexey Malgavko/Reuters)





A journalist films with her smartphone during an opening of exhibition of artworks by Russian businessman Viktor Bout, who was sentenced to 25 years in the United States, at the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, November 15, 2022. Russia has sought Bout's release for years and he is believed to be key to a possible prisoner exchange that could free US women's basketball star Brittney Griner. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)





People walk past a mural depicting the characters of famous Soviet films on the building of the Lenfilm film company in St. Petersburg, Russia, Wednesday, November 16, 2022. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)





A squirrel sits on a tree branch on a cold windy day in a park in St. Petersburg, Russia, Thursday, November 17, 2022. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)