A medic wearing a special suit against coronavirus adjusts a coronavirus patient's oxygen mask at the intensive care unit at a hospital in the mining town of Selydove, 700 kilometers (420 miles) east of Kyiv, eastern Ukraine, Thursday, March 4, 2021. (Photo by Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo)





Alexandr Kudlay, 33, and Viktoria Pustovitova, 28, have breakfast in their apartment in Kharkiv, Ukraine on March 5, 2021. Tired of occasional break-ups, this Ukrainian couple found an unusual solution to stay inseparable. On St. Valentine's Day, they decided to handcuff their hands together for three months and began documenting their experience on social media. (Photo by Gleb Garanich/Reuters)





Alexandr Kudlay, 33, and Viktoria Pustovitova, 28, put on socks in their apartment in Kharkiv, Ukraine on March 5, 2021. (Photo by Gleb Garanich/Reuters)





Alexandr Kudlay, 33, hugs Viktoria Pustovitova, 28 in their apartment in Kharkiv, Ukraine on March 4, 2021. “In terms of physical comfort, with every day passing, we are getting used to it more and more. It gets easier”, Kudlay told Reuters in their flat in the eastern city of Kharkiv. He came up with the idea after Pustovitova said she wanted to break up with him. “We used to break up once or twice a week. When during another fight Vika once again said that we had to break up, I replied: 'Then I will attach you to myself”. (Photo by Gleb Garanich/Reuters)





Alexandr Kudlay, 33, shaves as Viktoria Pustovitova, 28, stands next to him in their apartment in Kharkiv, Ukraine on March 5, 2021. The public response has been a mix of praise, skepticism, and simple curiosity. Comments on Instagram range from “Lovely couple” to “Can anyone explain me what for?”. Among the most burning questions is how the couple go to the toilet. The answer: The other has to wait outside with a hand remaining inside the bathroom. They take turns showering. (Photo by Gleb Garanich/Reuters)





Alexandr Kudlay, 33, and Viktoria Pustovitova, 28, make breakfast in their apartment in Kharkiv, Ukraine on March 5, 2021. Pustovitova refused his idea at first, hanging up the phone on him the first time he suggested it, but eventually changed her mind. For nearly a month now, neither has had any personal space and they do everything together, from grocery shopping to cigarette breaks. “I decided it will be an interesting experience for me, that it will bring into my life new bright emotions which I did not experience before”, Pustovitova said. “I love him, so I came to a decision to do it”. (Photo by Gleb Garanich/Reuters)





Patients with COVID-19 are seen in a hospital in Lviv, western Ukraine, Tuesday, March 23, 2021. Ukraine, which is struggling with a third wave of rising coronavirus infections, has recorded its highest daily death toll from COVID-19. (Photo by Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo)





Activists burn smoke grenades as they protest against corrupt courts and judges in Kiev, Ukraine, 09 March 2021. Ukrainians gathered to protest in front of a place where judges'meeting takes place, demanding judicial reform. (Photo by Sergey Dolzhenko/EPA/EFE)





A medical specialist wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) walks in the medical college building which was converted into the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) ward of a local hospital in Lviv, Ukraine on April 1, 2021. (Photo by Roman Baluk/Reuters)





A militant of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DNR) points a weapon at fighting positions on the line of separation from the Ukrainian armed forces south of the rebel-controlled city of Donetsk, Ukraine on April 2, 2021. (Photo by Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters)





A militant of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DNR) holds a weapon at fighting positions on the line of separation from the Ukrainian armed forces south of the rebel-controlled city of Donetsk, Ukraine on April 2, 2021. (Photo by Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters)





Olena Marchenko, head of a mobile vaccination unit, receives a dose of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine marketed under the name CoviShield at a hospital in the mining town of Selydove, 700 kilometers (420 miles) east of Kyiv, eastern Ukraine, Thursday, March 4, 2021. “Such a low number of vaccinated people is associated with low confidence in the vaccine that has entered Ukraine”, Olena Marchenko said of the AstraZeneca vaccine that was manufactured in India. Ukrainians are becoming increasingly opposed to vaccination: an opinion poll this month by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology found 60% of the country's people don't want to get vaccinated, up from 40% a month earlier. (Photo by Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo)





A Ukrainian military medic helps Ukrainian servicemen to fill in a medical form before receiving a dose of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine marketed under the name CoviShield at a military base near the front-line town of Krasnohorivka, eastern Ukraine, Friday, March 5, 2021. The country designated 14,000 doses of its first vaccine shipment for the military, especially those fighting Russia-backed separatists in the east. But only 1,030 troops have been vaccinated thus far. In the front-line town of Krasnohorivka, soldiers widely refuse to vaccinate. (Photo by Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo)





Women dance in a restaurant during a corporate celebration of International Women's Day in Kurahove, eastern Ukraine, Friday, March 5, 2021. (Photo by Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo)





Ukrainian serviceman Serhiy Kochuk walks along a trench near the front-line town of Krasnohorivka, eastern Ukraine, Friday, March 5, 2021. In the front-line town of Krasnohorivka, soldiers widely refuse to vaccinate. “I have little faith in a pandemic, I don't think it's some kind of serious disease”, said Serhiy Kochuk, a 25-year-old soldier who has been on duty at the front line. “I am healthy, but the vaccine can provoke illness; because of this vaccine you can get sick”. (Photo by Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo)





Ukrainian servicemen patrol an area after sunset near their position at the frontline near Vodiane, about 750 kilometers (468 miles) south-east of Kyiv, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, March 5, 2021. The country designated 14,000 doses of its first vaccine shipment for the military, especially those fighting Russia-backed separatists in the east. (Photo by Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo)





A cleaning company employee washes away inscriptions left by protesters on the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's office during recent rally to demand the release of Serhiy Sternenko, a civil activist and former leader of the far-right group Right Sector, who was sentenced by an Odessa court to seven years and three months in prison, in central Kiev on March 23, 2021. (Photo by Sergei Supinsky/AFP Photo)





Workers try to clean graffiti on a wall at the Presidential office in Kiev, Ukraine, 24 March 2021. Protestors left graffiti at the site on 20 March 2021 during a mass rally to support all pro-Ukrainian persecuted activists and marking the birthday of Serhiy Sternenko, a jailed Ukrainian nationalist activist. (Photo by Sergey Dolzhenko/EPA/EFE)





Local resident Angela, 54, grazes goats near her house in the rebel-controlled city of Donetsk, Ukraine on March 31, 2021. (Photo by Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters)