Ukrainian servicemen get out of an armoured personnel carrier, near the Russian border in Sumy region, Ukraine on August 13, 2024. (Photo by Viacheslav Ratynskyi/Reuters)





Ukrainian serviceman reacts as he sets a flag in a makeshift memorial for fallen Ukrainian soldiers at the Independence Square in Kyiv, on July 26, 2024, amid Russian invasion in Ukraine. (Photo by Sergei Supinsky/AFP Photo)





An artillerist of the 24th Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, named after King Danylo, fires a 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled howitzer towards Russian troops, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, near the town of Chasiv Yar in Donetsk region, Ukraine on July 14, 2024. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)





A Ukrainian serviceman of the Ochi reconnaissance unit launches a Furia drone to fly over Russian positions at the frontline in Donetsk region, Ukraine, on Sunday, June 30, 2024. (Photo by Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo)





Servicemen of the Azov battalion are lighting flares as they attend a ceremony to remember the victims of the Olenivka camp explosion, in Kyiv, Ukraine, on July 28, 2024. (Photo by Maxym Marusenko/NurPhoto/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A Ukrainian officer with the 56th Separate Motorized Infantry Mariupol Brigade fires rockets from a pickup truck at Russian positions on the front line near Bakhmut in Ukraine's Donetsk region on March 5, 2024. Ukraine faces twin challenges of fighting Russia and the shifting political sands in the US. (Photo by Efrem Lukatsky/AP Photo)





A Ukrainian serviceman talks on a radio at a front-line shelter near Chasiv Yar, Ukraine, on Tuesday, August 6, 2024. It has now been nearly two and a half years since Russia invaded Ukraine. (Photo by Oleg Petrasiuk/Press Service of the 24th King Danylo Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces/Reuters)





Ukrainian pilots and others look on as F16 fighter jets fly past during a ceremony held to mark Ukrainian Air Forces Day at undisclosed location on August 4, 2024. Ukraine has received its first batch of US-made F16 fighter jets, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Sunday, showing journalists several aircrafts that Kyiv hopes will help beat back Russian forces. (Photo by Sergei Supinsky/AFP Photo)





A Ukrainian infantryman of the Carpathian Sich 49th Infantry Battalion, named after Oleg Kutsyn, drafted during new mobalisation, holds an apple during a training in an unspecified location not far from front line in Donetsk region, on July 19, 2024, amid the Russian invasion in Ukraine. (Photo by Anatolii Stepanov/AFP Photo)





A bare-chested horse-rider (2-L) with a group of horses passe in front of Anatoly (L), a soldier of an anti-aircrafts brigade standing next to a 12.7mm calibre heavy machine gun installed on a pickup near a training field in the Khmelnytsky region on July 8, 2024. With its castle, medieval tower and river-side beach, the western Ukrainian tourist town of Starokostiantyniv doesn't seem an obvious target for Russian missile and drone strikes. But a major airbase just across the Sluch river has put the town firmly in Russia's sights – and locals fear the imminent arrival of F-16 fighter jets in Ukraine will only intensify the bombardments. (Photo by Florent Vergnes/AFP Photo)





Ukrainian soldiers from the 121nd load a Vampire drone with an antitank mine to strike into Russian positions in Krasnogorivka frontline, Ukraine on July 22, 2024. (Photo by Pablo Miranzo/Anadolu via Getty Images)





Ukrainian servicemen stand near an armoured personnel carrier, near the Russian border in Sumy region, Ukraine on August 13, 2024. (Photo by Viacheslav Ratynskyi/Reuters)





Ukrainian servicemen ride a BMP-1 infantry fighting vehicle, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, near the Russian border in Sumy region, Ukraine on August 10, 2024. (Photo by Viacheslav Ratynskyi/Reuters)





A serviceman of 24th Mechanized brigade runs on the street at a front line near the town of Chasiv Yar in Donetsk region, Ukraine on August 7, 2024. (Photo by Oleg Petrasiuk/Press Service of the Ukrainian Armed Forces)





A Ukrainian serviceman stands on a flag of Russia's mercenary group Wagner near the Russian border in Sumy region, Ukraine on August 13, 2024. (Photo by Viacheslav Ratynskyi/Reuters)