Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers his speech at the concert marking the eighth anniversary of the referendum on the state status of Crimea and Sevastopol and its reunification with Russia, in Moscow, Russia, Friday, March 18, 2022. (Photo by Ramil Sitdikov/Sputnik Pool Photo via AP Photo)





Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a concert marking the 8th anniversary of Crimea's reunification with Russia at the Luzhniki stadium in Moscow, Russia, 18 March 2022. Russia in 2014 annexed the Black Sea peninsula, shortly after Crimeans voted in a disputed referendum to secede from Ukraine. (Photo by Sergei Guneyev/Sputnik/Pool/EPA/EFE)





Smoke rises after an explosion in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv on March 18, 2022. Russian forces on March 18 destroyed an aircraft repair plant in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv but no one was hurt, the mayor said. Lviv is the largest city in western Ukraine and a popular tourist destination known for its picturesque views. Last weekend Russian cruise missiles devastated a military base west of Lviv, killing 35 people and wounding more than 130. Located 70 kilometres (45 miles) from the border with EU member Poland, the city had largely been spared since Russian forces invaded on February 24. (Photo by Yuriy Dyachyshyn/AFP Photo)





Ukrainian policemen secure the area by a five-storey residential building that partially collapsed after a shelling in Kyiv on March 18, 2022, as Russian troops try to encircle the Ukrainian capital as part of their slow-moving offensive. Authorities in Kyiv said one person was killed early today when a downed Russian rocket struck a residential building in the capital's northern suburbs. They said a school and playground were also hit. (Photo by SErgei Supinsky/AFP Photo)





A man removes a destroyed curtain inside a school damaged among other residential buildings in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, March 18, 2022. Russian forces pressed their assault on Ukrainian cities Friday, with new missile strikes and shelling on the edges of the capital Kyiv and the western city of Lviv, as world leaders pushed for an investigation of the Kremlin's repeated attacks on civilian targets, including schools, hospitals and residential areas. (Photo by Rodrigo Abd/AP Photo)





A Ukrainian serviceman guards next to the site of the National Academy of State Administration building damaged by shelling in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Friday, March 18, 2022. (Photo by Andrew Marienko/AP Photo)





Ukrainian former heavyweight boxing world champion Wladimir Klitschko, center, looks on as his brother Kyiv Mayor, Vitali Klitschko, left, comforts a neighbor who cries at the site where a bombing damaged residential buildings in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, March 18, 2022. Russian forces pressed their assault on Ukrainian cities Friday, with new missile strikes and shelling on the edges of the capital Kyiv and the western city of Lviv, as world leaders pushed for an investigation of the Kremlin's repeated attacks on civilian targets, including schools, hospitals and residential areas. (Photo by Rodrigo Abd/AP Photo)





A woman reacts while speaking near a block of flats, which was destroyed during Ukraine-Russia conflict in the besieged southern port city of Mariupol, Ukraine on March 17, 2022. (Photo by Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters)





Local residents, who seek refuge in the basement of a building during Ukraine-Russia conflict, are seen in the besieged southern port city of Mariupol, Ukraine on March 17, 2022. (Photo by Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters)





Evacuees fleeing Ukraine-Russia conflict sit in the body of a cargo vehicle while waiting in a line to leave the besieged southern port city of Mariupol, Ukraine on March 17, 2022. (Photo by Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters)





A service member of pro-Russian troops walks near a line of cars with evacuees, who leave the besieged southern port city of Mariupol, Ukraine on March 17, 2022. (Photo by Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters)





Evacuees fleeing Ukraine-Russia conflict sit in a damaged car as they wait in a line to leave the besieged southern port city of Mariupol, Ukraine on March 17, 2022. (Photo by Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters)





Women walk inside a school damaged among other residential buildings following a bombing in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, March 18, 2022. (Photo by Rodrigo Abd/AP Photo)





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





A boy from Ukraine sleeps on a bus after arriving at Keleti station in Budapest, Hungary, on Friday, March 18, 2022. UNHCR, the U.N. refugee agency, has said fighting that has followed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24 has sparked Europe’s gravest refugee crisis since World War II. (Photo by Anna Szilagyi/AP Photo)





A woman arranges bunches of tulips on the pavement in Sophia square in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, March 18, 2022. Residents of the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv on took to a central square to arrange some 1.5 million tulips in the shape of the country's coat of arms, in a defiant show of normalcy as Russian forces surround and bomb the city. (Photo by Vadim Ghirda/AP Photo)





A woman prays at the cathedral during the funeral ceremony for Ukrainian officer Ivan Skrypnyk on March 17, 2022 in Lviv, Ukraine. The soldier died in Sunday's airstrike on the nearby International Center for Peacekeeping and Security at the Yavoriv military complex. The barrage of Russian missiles killed 35 and wounded scores. The site, west of Lviv in the town of Starychi, is mere miles from Ukraine's border with Poland. (Photo by Alexey Furman/Getty Images)





A poster with Russian President Putin with a bloody face is displayed during a protest action in front of the Russia Embassy in Riga, Latvia, 17 March 2022. The protest is planned to continue and take place every day at the Russian Embassy in Riga, until the end of the war in Ukraine. On 24 February Russian troops had entered Ukrainian territory in what the Russian president declared a “special military operation”, resulting in fighting and destruction in the country, a huge flow of refugees, and multiple sanctions against Russia. (Photo by Toms Kalnins/EPA/EFE)





A person looks at 109 empty prams placed in the center of Lviv during the “Price of War” campaign organized by local activists and authorities to highlight the large number of children killed in ongoing Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in Lviv, March 18, 2022. (Photo by Roman Baluk/Reuters)





In this frame grab from video provided by Roscosmos, Russian cosmonauts Sergey Korsakov, Oleg Artemyev and Denis Matveyev are seen during a welcome ceremony after arriving at the International Space Station, Friday, March 18, 2022, the first new faces in space since the start of Russia’s war in Ukraine. The crew emerged from the Soyuz capsule wearing yellow flight suits with blue stripes, the colors of the Ukrainian flag. (Photo by Roscosmos via AP Photo)





Jewish men and youths in Purim costumes celebrate in the Mea Shearim ultra-Orthodox neighbourhood in Jerusalem, on March 18, 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)





People celebrate Holi in Jammu, India, Friday, March 18, 2022. Holi, the Hindu festival of colors, also heralds the arrival of spring. (Photo by Channi Anand/AP Photo)





Hindu devotees pray as they are sprayed with coloured water at a temple's premises during Holi celebrations in Ahmedabad, India, March 18, 2022. (Photo by Amit Dave/Reuters)





A woman daubed in colours shakes her head to remove the coloured powder during Holi celebrations in Ahmedabad, India on March 18, 2022. (Photo by Amit Dave/Reuters)