Demonstrators clash with police officers during a protest by activists of the National Corps political party in front of the Presidential Office building in Kyiv, Ukraine on August 14, 2021. (Photo by Serhii Nuzhnenko/Reuters)





Ukrainian servicemen march during a rehearsal for the Independence Day military parade in central Kyiv, Ukraine on August 18, 2021. (Photo by Gleb Garanich/Reuters)





Volunteers lift a coffin from a mass grave during the exhumation of remains of civilians and military personnel killed during the military conflict in eastern Ukraine, at a cemetery in the rebel-controlled village of Snizhne (Snezhnoye) in Donetsk Region, Ukraine on August 19, 2021. (Photo by Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters)





Believers of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchate attend a public prayer in front of the Parliament building there Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople will meet with lawmakers in Kiev, Ukraine, 21 August 2021. Believers of the Moscow Patriarchate protest against the visit of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew because Ecumenical Patriarchate granted autocephaly to the Church of Ukraine in 2019. Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, a spiritual leader of the Orthodox Christians around the world, was invited to Kiev by President Volodymyr Zelensky for celebrating the 30th anniversary of Ukrainian Independence. Patriarch Bartholomew I arrived in Ukraine for the first time after the Ecumenical Patriarchate granted autocephaly to the Church of Ukraine on 06 January 2019. (Photo by Sergey Dolzhenko/EPA/EFE)





Tanks ride along Khreshchatyk Street, during a military parade to celebrate Independence Day in Kiev, Ukraine, Tuesday, August 24, 2021. (Photo by Efrem Lukatsky/AP Photo)





This handout picture released by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Service on August 24, 2021, shows Ukrainian soldiers carrying a national flag during the Independence Day military parade in Kiev. (Photo by Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/AFP Photo)





Military aircrafts fly above the Independence Square during the “Independence Day” celebrations in Kiev, Ukraine, 24 August 2021. (Photo by Sergey Dolzhenko/EPA/EFE)





People look up as military aircrafts fly above the city center during a military parade to celebrate Independence Day in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, August 24, 2021. (Photo by Efrem Lukatsky/AP Photo)





Ukrainian soldiers march along main Khreshchatyk Street during a military parade to celebrate Independence Day in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, August 24, 2021. Ukraine mark the 30th anniversary of its independence. (Photo by Efrem Lukatsky/AP Photo)





Members of Ukraine's military march during an Independence Day parade on August 24, 2021 in Kyiv, Ukraine. Ukraine celebrates 30 years of independence in an unstable geopolitical climate. President Volodymyr Zelensky gathered representatives of some 40 countries to inaugurate the Crimean Platform on the eve of Independence day. The summit of international and diplomatic solidarity, aims to highlight the annexation of Crimea by the Russians in 2014. (Photo by Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images)





A Ukrainian soldier jumps from a military helicopter during the Independence Day celebrations in the Black Sea port of Odessa, Ukraine on August 24, 2021. (Photo by Mykhaylo Shtekel/Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)





Soldiers with dogs march down main street during a military parade to celebrate Independence Day in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, August 24, 2021. Ukraine mark the 30th anniversary of its independence with dogs taking part in the parade for the first time ever in Ukraine's independent history. (Photo by Efrem Lukatsky/AP Photo)





Ukrainian military drummers march along main Khreshchatyk Street during a military parade to celebrate Independence Day in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, August 24, 2021. (Photo by Efrem Lukatsky/AP Photo)





Ukrainian paratroopers take part in Independence Day celebrations in the Black Sea port of Odessa, Ukraine on August 24, 2021. (Photo by Mykhaylo Shtekel/Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)





Ukrainian soldiers march on the Independence Square during the “Independence Day” celebrations at the Independence Square in Kiev, Ukraine, 24 August 2021. Ukraine marks the 30th anniversary of its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. (Photo by Leszek Szymanski/EPA/EFE)





The world's largest transport aircraft, Ukrainian Antonov An-225 Mriya attends the Independence Day military parade in Kiev on August 24, 2021. (Photo by Anatolii Stepanov/AFP Photo)





This handout picture released by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Service on August 24, 2021, shows women wearing traditional dresses during the Independence Day military parade in Kiev. (Photo by Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/AFP Photo)





Ukrainian strongman athletes attempt to set a world record for pulling the world's largest cargo plane Antonov An-225 Mriya at an airfield in the settlement of Hostomel outside Kyiv, Ukraine on August 26, 2021. (Photo by Gleb Garanich/Reuters)





An artist is seen preparing during the Kramatorsk tent show in Kramatorsk, Ukraine on August 29, 2021. Traditional tent shows are still very popular in the twenty first century among Ukrainian people of all ages. (Photo by Andriy Andriyenko/SOPA Images/Rex Features/Shutterstock)