People attend the funeral of Alexander Skobelev, junior sergeant of the Russian armed forces killed in the course of Russia-Ukraine conflict, at a cemetery in the town of Shlisselburg in the Leningrad region, Russia on June 8, 2023. (Photo by Anton Vaganov/Reuters)





Russian President Vladimir Putin, accompanied by Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller, left, visits a martial arts academy at Sirius Park in the resort city of Sochi, Russia, Friday, June 9, 2023. (Photo by Gavriil Grigorov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP Photo)





Broken windows and traces of fire are seen after the drone fell at a residential building in Voronezh, Russia, Friday, June 9, 2023. A Russian regional governor says three people were lightly wounded after a drone crashed into a residential building in central Voronezh, a city in southwestern Russia near the border with Ukraine. (Photo by Ara Kilanyants/Kommersant Publishing House via AP Photo)





Thousands of people wave Russian national flags as they gather on Red Square to watch a concert dedicated to the Day of Russia in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, June 11, 2023. The Day of Russia is celebrated annually on 12 June. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)





People gather on Manezhnaya Square toward Red Square to watch a concert dedicated to the Day of Russia in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, June 11, 2023. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)





Teenagers dance as thousands of people with Russian national flags gather on Red Square to watch a concert dedicated to the Day of Russia in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, June 11, 2023. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)





Spectators wave their hands watching a concert dedicated to the Day of Russia during sunset on Red Square in Moscow, Russia, on Monday, June 12, 2023. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)





Frigate “Rossiya” (Russia) with scarlet sails floats on the Neva River during a rehearsal of the Scarlet Sails celebration in St. Petersburg, Russia, 11 June 2023. The traditional celebration is organized in honor of students of elementary and high schools, as well as military academies as they finish their educational terms and hold graduation ceremonies in the second largest city of Russia. (Photo by Anatoly Maltsev/EPA/EFE)





Actors wearing costumes of The Silver Age of Russian Culture dance at an annual Historical Festival Times and Epochs celebrating the Day of Russia on Pushkinskaya Square in the center of Moscow, Russia, Monday, June 12, 2023. The statue of Russian poet Alexander Pushkin is in the background. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)





An athlete carries a vehicle body at a festival celebrating Russia Day in Saint Petersburg, Russia on June 12, 2023. (Photo by Anton Vaganov/Reuters)





A man tries on a Russian medieval helmet and chain armor to his son during celebrating the Day of Russia at a park in St. Petersburg, Russia, Monday, June 12, 2023. The Day of Russia is celebrated annually on 12 June. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)





Russian President Vladimir Putin, center, speaks during a meeting with Russian war correspondents who cover a special military operation, at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, June 13, 2023. (Photo by Gavriil Grigorov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP Photo)





People worship the Trinity icon by Andrei Rublev in Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, June 15, 2023. The icon, which was moved to Christ the Savior Cathedral for two weeks, will be sent back to Moscow's Tretyakov Gallery since the 1920s to undergo restoration. (Photo by lexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)





People take pictures near a Soviet flag flying on an embankment in Saint Petersburg, Russia on June 17, 2023. The flags of Russia, the USSR, and the Russian Empire were installed on the shore to mark the anniversaries of each flag's adoption. (Photo by Anton Vaganov/Reuters)





An officer stands in front of a TV screen showing Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, standing, speaking between his lawyers in a courtroom, via video link provided by the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service, during a preliminary hearing in the colony, in Melekhovo, Vladimir region, about 260 kilometers (163 miles) northeast of Moscow, Russia, on Monday, June 19, 2023. A Russian court has opened a new trial of imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny that could keep him behind bars for decades. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)





Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a wreath-laying ceremony marking the 82nd anniversary of the Nazi German invasion into Soviet Union in World War II on the Remembrance and Sorrow Day at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by the Kremlin wall in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, June 22, 2023. (Photo by Sergey Guneev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP Photo)





Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich stands in a glass cage in a courtroom at the Moscow City Court in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, June 22, 2023. Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal reporter detained on espionage charges in Russia, appeared in court Thursday to appeal his extended detention. (Photo by Dmitry Serebryakov/AP Photo)





Members of Russia's Young Army Cadets National Movement hold candles marking the 82nd anniversary of the German invasion of the Soviet Union at the World War II Museum on Poklonnaya Hill in Moscow, Russia, early Thursday, June 22, 2023. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)





An armoured personnel carrier (APC) is seen next to a shopping mall in the southern city of Rostov-on-Don, Russia on June 24, 2023. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)





Law enforcement vehicles are seen in front of the Kremlin's Spasskaya Tower in central Moscow, Russia on June 24, 2023. (Photo by Evgenia Novozhenina/Reuters)





An armoured personnel carrier (APC) is seen on a street of the southern city of Rostov-on-Don, Russia on June 24, 2023. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)