Ukrainian law enforcement officers block demonstrators during a rally held by entrepreneurs and representatives of small businesses near the parliament building amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Kyiv, Ukraine November 17, 2020. Entrepreneurs gathered to demand governmental support and the cancellation of weekend lockdowns introduced to curb the spread of the coronavirus. (Photo by Valentyn Ogirenko/Reuters)





A militant of the separatist Donetsk People's Republic checks his machine gun on a position located on the troops contact line with Ukrainian forces in Donetsk Region, Ukraine on November 24, 2020. (Photo by Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters)





A robot made by local enthusiasts and employees of an automobile repair workshop is seen during installation works on the outskirts of the rebel-controlled city of Donetsk, Ukraine, November 26, 2020. According to creators, who plan to open a robotics engineering park, two 13-metre and 6-metre-high sculptures featuring transformer robots were made of waste metal including car components and weigh about 4 and 2 tonnes respectively. (Photo by Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters)





A patient embraces a doctor in a hospital for people infected with the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Kyiv, Ukraine on November 25, 2020. (Photo by Gleb Garanich/Reuters)





TV journalists report as municipal workers decorate a Christmas tree in front of St. Sofia Cathedral in central Kyiv, Ukraine, December 8, 2020. (Photo by Gleb Garanich/Reuters)





Ukrainian law enforcement officers restrain a demonstrator during a rally of entrepreneurs and representatives of small businesses amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Kyiv, Ukraine December 15, 2020. Entrepreneurs gathered to demand governmental support and to protest against restrictive measures introduced to curb the spread of the coronavirus. (Photo by Gleb Garanich/Reuters)





Ukrainian law enforcement officers leave a square during a rally of entrepreneurs and representatives of small businesses amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Kyiv, Ukraine December 15, 2020. Entrepreneurs gathered to demand governmental support and to protest against restrictive measures introduced to curb the spread of the coronavirus. (Photo by Gleb Garanich/Reuters)





A man wearing a protective face mask amid the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) walks past a Christmas illumination in Kyiv, Ukraine on December 7, 2020. (Photo by Gleb Garanich/Reuters)





A fisherman in a rubber boat is surrounded by rotting cyanobacteria in the Kyiv Water Reservoir near Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, November 15, 2020. The region was rocked by extreme hot weather throughout 2020 that resulted in widespread damage to agricultural crops and destruction to the natural habitat of some species. (Photo by Efrem Lukatsky/AP Photo)





People fly on hot air balloons during a festival in Kyiv, Ukraine on 02 December 2020. The festival of hot air balloons “Montgolfieria”, which timed to the anniversary of the launch of the first balloon in history by the Montgolfier brothers, takes place in the Ukrainian capital. By purchasing the appropriate ticket, the festival visitors have the opportunity to make a short flight in a hot air balloon and take a picture. (Photo by NurPhoto via Getty Images)





A man pays his respect at a memorial dedicated to people died in clashes with security forces at the Independent Square (Maidan) in Kiev, Ukraine, Tuesday, November 21, 2017 to mark the fourth anniversary of the beginning of the protests. People gather to commemorate the Maidan protest movement and the events which took place in late Feb. 2014 that led to the departure of former Ukrainian President Victor Yanukovich and the formation of a new government. (Photo by Efrem Lukatsky/AP Photo)





Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy lays flowers at the graves of fallen soldiers as he visits the Ukrainian armed forces' positions in Donetsk region, Ukraine on December 6, 2020. (Photo by Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/Handout via Reuters)





A man wearing a face mask during the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic in the country walks in center of Kiev, Ukraine, on December 09, 2020. (Photo by Vladimir Shtanko/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





Ukrainian law enforcement officers restrain an activist of women's rights group Femen, who holds a protest outside the presidential administration headquarters while marking the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women in Kyiv, Ukraine on November 25, 2020. (Photo by Valentyn Ogirenko/Reuters)





The big Hannukah menorah has been installed near the Duke of Richelieu monument on Prymorskyi Boulevard, Odesa, southern Ukraine on December 10, 2020. (Photo by Ukrinform/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and his wife Olena visit a monument for Holodomor victims during a commemoration ceremony marking the 87th anniversary of the famine of 1932-33, in which millions died of hunger, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday November 28, 2020. (Photo by Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP Photo)





Activists attend a symbolic funeral during a rally called “Funeral of justice” on the anniversary of the “Sheremet case” near the Presidential Office in Kiev, Ukraine, on December 12, 2020. The participants protest against the detention of Andriy Antonenko and criminal cases against others suspected of killing journalist Pavel Sheremet. The rally timed to the first anniversary of Ukrainian ex-serviceman Andriy Antonenko's detention. Known journalist Pavel Sheremet, dual citizen Russian and Belarusian, was killed in the blast in a car in the center of Kiev on July 20, 2016. (Photo by Vladimir Shtanko/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





Ukrainian investors of the construction of apartment blocks in several residential complexes burn flares during a rally demanding the resuming of construction of the residential buildings, near the City Hall in Kyiv, Ukraine on 30 November 2020. Hundreds of customers of Arkada bank held their rally in the Ukrainian capital demanding the authorities take measures to finish of construction of residential buildings, in construction of which they have invested money, as local media reported. (Photo by NurPhoto via Getty Images)





People attend commemoration ceremony for those who took part in the liquidation of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant disaster in 1986 at Monument to Heroes of Chernobyl in Kiev, Ukraine on December 14, 2020. (Photo by Talha Yavuz/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)