A villager, dressed in a traditional bear costume, celebrates the Malanka festival in the village of Krasnoilsk, Ukraine, Friday, January 14, 2022. Dressed as goats, bears, oxen and cranes, many Ukrainians rang in the new year last week in the colorful rituals of the Malanka holiday. Malanka, which draws on pagan folk tales, marks the new year according to the Julian calendar, meaning it falls on Jan. 13-14. In the festivities, celebrants go from house to house, where the dwellers offer them food. (Photo by Ethan Swope/AP Photo)





A service member of the Ukrainian armed forces is seen at combat positions near the line of separation from Russian-backed rebels near Horlivka in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, January 20, 2022. (Photo by Anna Kudriavtseva/Reuters)





Local residents watch honour guards of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic taking part in the ceremony to mark the anniversary of the fatal artillery shelling at a trolleybus stop, on January 22, 2015, for which both parties of the conflict in eastern Ukraine have accuse each other, in the rebel-controlled city of Donetsk, Ukraine, January 22, 2022. (Photo by Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters)





A service member of the Ukrainian armed forces walks at combat positions near the line of separation from Russian-backed rebels near Horlivka in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, January 22, 2022. (Photo by Anna Kudriavtseva/Reuters)





A poster of Russian President Vladimir Putin is used as target practice along a trench on the frontline with Russia-backed separatists near Zolote village, in the Lugansk region, on January 21, 2022. Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba on January 22, 2022, slammed Germany for its refusal to supply weapons to Kyiv, urging Berlin to stop “undermining unity“ and “encouraging Vladimir Putin” amid fears of a Russian invasion. (Photo by Anatolii Stepanov/AFP Photo)





People in traditional costumes play the drums during the celebrations of the Day of Unity in Kiev on January 22, 2022. On January 22, 1919, an Act of Unification of Ukrainian lands into a single Ukraine was declared in Kyiv. (Photo by Celestino Arce Lavin/ZUMA Press Wire/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A Ukrainian serviceman patrols a street near the frontline with Russia-backed separatists in Verkhnotoretske village in Yasynuvata district, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, January 22, 2022. Ukrainians in the country's east are likely to be on the front lines of war if it comes, but they are far from the people making decisions about their fate. (Photo by Andriy Andriyenko/AP Photo)





An Ukrainian Military Forces serviceman smokes in a dugout, as he and a cat sit near a wood burner on the frontline with the Russia-backed separatists near Zolote village, in the eastern Lugansk region, on January 21, 2022. Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba on January 22, 2022, slammed Germany for its refusal to supply weapons to Kyiv, urging Berlin to stop “undermining unity” and “encouraging Vladimir Putin” amid fears of a Russian invasion. (Photo by Anatolii Stepanov/AFP Photo)





People walk in a pedestrian tunnel under a board displaying the slogan “Donetsk Hero City” in the rebel-held city of Donetsk, Ukraine on January 24, 2022. (Photo by Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters)





A service member of the Ukrainian armed forces is seen at combat positions near the line of separation from Russian-backed rebels outside the town of Avdiivka in Donetsk Region, Ukraine on January 25, 2022. (Photo by Maksim Levin/Reuters)





A picture taken on January 25, 2022 shows pallets of ammunition, weapons and other equipment while employees unload a plane with a new US security assistance provided to Ukraine at Kyiv's airport Boryspil. The US has stepped up security assistance to Ukraine, amid fear of Russian invasion with Russia's build-up of tens of thousands of troops on Ukraine's border. (Photo by Sergei Supinsky/AFP Photo)





A Ukrainian Military Forces serviceman walks in the village of Pesli, in the eastern Ukraine self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), close to the front-line with Russia-backed separatists on January 25,2022. (Photo by Anatolii Stepanov/AFP Photo)





Demonstrators scuffle with Ukrainian law enforcement officers during a rally of entrepreneurs and representatives of small businesses who demand government support, in front of the parliament building in Kyiv, Ukraine on January 25, 2022. (Photo by Serhii Nuzhnenko/Reuters)





Employees of essential city industries and services attend a military training session outside Lviv, Ukraine on January 25, 2022. (Photo by Roman Baluk/Reuters)





A Ukrainian serviceman and a cat at a shelter on a front line near the Avdiivka village, not far from pro-Russian militants controlled city of Donetsk, Ukraine, 25 January 2022. US and Britain announced it is withdrawing some diplomats, nonessential personnel, and family members from their embassies in Kiev amid growing fears of a Russian invasion. Russia has recently strengthened its groups near the border with Ukraine and Belarus, with no signs of de-escalation, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said on 24 January. (Photo by Stanislav Kozliuk/EPA/EFE)





A man fishes on the ice-covered Kalmius river in the rebel-held city of Donetsk, Ukraine on January 26, 2022. (Photo by Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters)





Local inhabitant Natalia (63) with her pets stands inside of her home in the Avdiivka village, not far from pro-Russian militants controlled city Donetsk, Ukraine, 26 January 2022. Natalia lives a few kilometers from the front line and was heavily injured during a battle escalation in January of 2017. The United States assumes that Russia will try to invade Ukraine before mid-February. This was stated by US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman in a conversation with Former Estonian President Kersti Kaljulaid as part of the YES (Yalta European Strategy) online discussion on 26 January 2022. (Photo by Stas Kozlyuk/EPA/EFE)





A Ukrainian service member points a next generation light anti-tank weapon (NLAW), supplied by Britain amid tensions between Russia and the West over Ukraine, during drills in the Lviv region, Ukraine, in this handout picture released on January 27, 2022. (Photo by Ukrainian Defence Ministry/Handout via Reuters)





Ukrainian servicemen rest in a shelter on the front line in the Luhansk region, eastern Ukraine, Friday, January 28, 2022. High-stakes diplomacy continued on Friday in a bid to avert a war in Eastern Europe. The urgent efforts come as 100,000 Russian troops are massed near Ukraine's border and the Biden administration worries that Russian President Vladimir Putin will mount some sort of invasion within weeks. (Photo by Vadim Ghirda/AP Photo)