Singer Verka Serduchka (Andrii Danylko) performs on top a platform during the 29th Independence Day celebration in Sofiiska Square, Kyiv, capital of Ukraine on August 24, 2020. (Photo by Hennadii Minchenko/Imago)





Ukrainian veterans attend a raising ceremony of the biggest national flag on the country's highest flagpole to mark the Day of the National Flag in Kyiv, Ukraine on August 22, 2020. (Photo by Valentyn Ogirenko/Reuters)





Relatives hold portraits of Ukrainian serviceman, who was killed in the conflict in eastern Ukraine, during a rally to commemorate the 6th anniversary of the Battle of Ilovaisk, ahead of the Day of Remembrance of Ukraine's Defenders, in front of the Russian embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine on August 28, 2020. (Photo by Valentyn Ogirenko/Reuters)





Devotees wear mandatory face masks during the divine liturgy at St Michael's Golden-Domed Cathedral on the Feast of the Transfiguration in Kyiv, capital of Ukraine on August 19, 2020. (Photo by Evgen Kotenko/Ukrinform/Barcroft Media via Getty Images)





Metropolitan Epifaniy, the head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, blesses a rebuilt wall with portraits of Ukrainian defenders killed during an armed conflict in the eastern-Ukrainian conflict in Kiev, Ukraine, 20 August 2020. Ukrainians will mark the 29th anniversary of Ukraine's independence from the Soviet Union on 24 August 2020. (Photo by Sergey Dolzhenko/EPA/EFE/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





People walk through a water sprinkler on a hot summer day in central Kyiv, Ukraine on August 21, 2020. (Photo by Gleb Garanich/Reuters)





Ukraine's biggest flag flies some 90 metres above the city as it has been installed on the eve of the State Flag Day, with The Motherland Monument at centre, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, August 22, 2020. Ukraine marks the State Flag Day on August 23 and the Independence Day on Aug. 24. (Photo by Efrem Lukatsky/AP Photo)





Protesters hold burning flares during the Defence of the Country is Not a Crime rally outside the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Kyiv, capital of Ukraine on September 3, 2020. Demonstrators call for the release of 16 people detained after an attack on a bus with the activists of the Patriots – For Life civil organisation on the highway near Liubotyn, Kharkiv Region, on August 27. (Photo credit should read Evgen Kotenko/Ukrinform/Barcroft Media via Getty Images)





Lawmakers holds Belarus national flags in Parliamentary session room in Kyiv Ukraine, September 4, 2020. Lawmakers fill Parliamentary hall with Belarus national white-red-white flags to support its protesting citizens (Photo by Sergii Kharchenko/NurPhoto via Getty Images)





Activists of the #BelarusWatch international volunteer initiative, Belarusians living in Ukraine, their supporters, and Ukrainian activists burn smoke flares during their solidarity rally to put the developments in Minsk and Belarus in a spotlight to push leaders of countries to support the protection of human rights and democracy in Belarus, downtown Kiev, Ukraine, 26 August 2020. The opposition in Belarus alleges poll-rigging and police violence at protests following election results claiming that president Lukashenko had won a landslide victory in the 09 August elections. (Photo by Sergey Dolzhenko/EPA/EFE/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





People, including veterans of the ongoing war against Russian-backed separatists in the east of the country, relatives of those killed in the armed conflict, fighters of volunteer battalions and activists, take part in a march on Ukraine's Independence Day in Kiev on August 24, 2020. (Photo by Genya Savilov/AFP Photo)





A model presents a creation by Ukrainian designer Ivan Frolov during Ukrainian Fashion Week in Kyiv, Ukraine on August 31, 2020. (Photo by Gleb Garanich/Reuters)





A model waits backstage at the Ukrainian Fashion Week in Kyiv, Ukraine on August 31, 2020. (Photo by Gleb Garanich/Reuters)





Models get their makeup backstage during the Ukrainian Fashion Week in Kiev, Ukraine, 01 September 2020. (Photo by Sergey Dolzhenko/EPA/EFE)





A model presents a creation by Ukrainian designer Ivan Frolov during Ukrainian Fashion Week in Kyiv, Ukraine on August 31, 2020. (Photo by Gleb Garanich/Reuters)





A model presents a creation by Ukrainian designer Ivan Frolov during Ukrainian Fashion Week in Kyiv, Ukraine on August 31, 2020. (Photo by Gleb Garanich/Reuters)





Models get their makeup backstage during the Ukrainian Fashion Week in Kiev, Ukraine, 01 September 2020. The fashion event presents 2020/21 collections by Ukrainian and international designers and will run until 03 September 2020. (Photo by Sergey Dolzhenko/EPA/EFE)





Models wearing masks created by designer Maria Rudenko wait backstage at Ukrainian Fashion Week in Kyiv, Ukraine on September 3, 2020. (Photo by Valentyn Ogirenko/Reuters)





A model presents a creation by graduates of the Open Fashion Studio clothing design school during Ukrainian Fashion Week in Kyiv, Ukraine on September 3, 2020. (Photo by Valentyn Ogirenko/Reuters)





A model presents a creation by Ukrainian designer Maryna Rybalko during Ukrainian Fashion Week in Kyiv, Ukraine on September 1, 2020. (Photo by Valentyn Ogirenko/Reuters)