A police officer stands inside a destroyed apartment at a damaged housing block after it was hit by debris from a downed rocket in Kyiv on March 17, 2022, as Russian forces press in on the Ukrainian capital. Russian troops trying to encircle Kyiv have launched early morning strikes on the city for several successive days, putting traumatised residents further on edge. (Photo by Genya Savilov/AFP Photo)





People put up plastic sheets to cover the broken windows of their apartments after parts of a Russian missile, shot down by Ukrainian air defense, landed on an apartment block , according to authorities, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 17, 2022. (Photo by Vadim Ghirda/AP Photo)





A damaged military vehicle sits in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 16, 2022. (Photo by Andrew Marienko/AP Photo)





A soldier embraces a relative fleeing the war, minutes before departing by bus to Poland, in Vinnytsia, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 16, 2022. (Photo by Rodrigo Abd/AP Photo)





A woman with her child checks her mobile phone as she waits for relocation outside the main shelter and relocation center in Przemysl, southeastern Poland on March 16, 2022. More than three million people have fled Ukraine since the start of the invasion, the UN migration agency IOM says. Around half are minors, says the UN children's agency. The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, says 1.8 million people have fled to Poland. (Photo by Louisa Gouliamaki/AFP Photo)





Ukrainian servicemen carry containers backdropped by a blaze at a warehouse after a bombing on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 17, 2022. (Photo by Vadim Ghirda/AP Photo)





Ukrainian servicemen guard their position near Brovary, north of Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 17, 2022. (Photo by Serhii Nuzhnenko/AP Photo)





A picture of Russian President Vladimir Putin hangs at a target practice range in Lviv, western Ukraine, Thursday, March 17, 2022. (Photo by Bernat Armangue/AP Photo)





Firefighters carry the dead body of an elderly woman after a bombing in a residential area in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 15, 2022. Russia's offensive in Ukraine has edged closer to central Kyiv with a series of strikes hitting a residential neighborhood as the leaders of three European Union member countries planned a visit to Ukraine's embattled capital. (Photo by Vadim Ghirda/AP Photo)





A veterinarian examines a cat of a Ukrainian refugee, in Nadarzyn, Poland, on Thursday, March 17, 2022. Veterinarians working for a center receiving refugees, examine, vaccinate and issue health certificates for pets that the people fleeing war in Ukraine. (Photo by Czarek Sokolowski/AP Photo)





Ukrainian firefighters extinguish a blaze at a warehouse after a bombing on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 17, 2022. (Photo by Vadim Ghirda/AP Photo)





Hospital staff sit in a basement, used as a bomb shelter, during an air raid alarm in Brovary, north of Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 17, 2022. (Photo by Felipe Dana/AP Photo)





A volunteer of the Ukrainian Territorial Defense Forces smokes in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 16, 2022. (Photo by Andrew Marienko/AP Photo)





A police officer looks through the window of a damaged flat in a residential building which was hit by the debris from a downed rocket in Kyiv on March 17, 2022. One person was killed and three injured when debris from a downed rocket hit a Kyiv apartment block, as Russian forces press in on the capital, emergency services said. Russian troops trying to encircle Kyiv have launched early morning strikes on the city for several successive days, putting traumatised residents further on edge. (Photo by Fadel Senna/AFP Photo)





An aerial view shows firemen working in the rubble of a residential building which was hit by the debris from a downed rocket in Kyiv on March 17, 2022. (Photo by Fadel Senna/AFP Photo)





Evacuees from Mariupol are seen upon arrival at the car park of a shopping centre on the outskirts of the city of Zaporizhzhia, which is now a registration centre for displaced people, on March 16, 2022. Some 20,000 residents have been allowed to leave Mariupol through a humanitarian corridor agreed with Russian forces. But exhausted, shivering evacuees speak of harrowing escape journeys and rotting corpses littering the streets. Mariupol is facing a humanitarian catastrophe according to aid agencies, since heavy bombardment has left some 400,000 inhabitants with no running water or heating and food running short. More than 2,100 residents have been killed in Mariupol since the Russian invasion, according to city authorities. (Photo by Emre Caylak/AFP Photo)





Dmytro Kovalenko, foreground, manager of Ukrainian restaurant Streecha in New York, and two employees, watch Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy deliver a virtual address to the U.S. Congress, Wednesday, March 16, 2022. (Photo by Richard Drew/AP Photo)





A police talks with a local resident on the street during an electric stoppage at the area after an earthquake in Tokyo, Japan on March 17, 2022. (Photo by Issei Kato/Reuters)





Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men and children in Purim costumes read the Biblical Book of Esther during the feast of Purim at a synagogue in the Israeli city of Bnei Brak on March 17, 2022. The carnival-like Purim holiday is celebrated with parades and costume parties to commemorate the deliverance of the Jewish people from a plot to exterminate them in the ancient Persian empire 2,500 years ago, as recorded in the Biblical Book of Esther. (Photo by Menahem Kahana/AFP Photo)





Soldiers patrol at night in Dongyin, Taiwan on March 15, 2022. (Photo by Ann Wang/Reuters)





Performers on a giant chair cross O'Connell bridge during the annual St Patrick's Day parade in Dublin, Ireland on March 17, 2022. (Photo by Damien Eagers/AFP Photo)





Entrants of the Rose of Tralee Festival walk in the Saint Patrick’s Day Parade on 5th Avenue, in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., March 17, 2022. (Photo by Andrew Kelly/Reuters)





Medical students play with coloured powder as they participate in Holi celebrations, the Hindu spring festival of colours, inside Moti Lal Nehru Medical College campus in Allahabad on March 16, 2022. (Photo by Sanjay Kanojia/AFP Photo)





Racegoers arrive on the second day of the 2022 Cheltenham festival in Cheltenham, United Kingdom on March 16, 2022. (Photo by Dan Sheridan/INPHO/Rex Features/Shutterstock)