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Crows fly above multi-storey apartment buildings during a blackout in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday Nov. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
Cadets turn on their flashlights to commemorate 659 Ukrainian children, who were killed during the war with Russia, in a military lyceum on World Children's Day in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
Vladyslava Kulinich, right, Tetiana Nosova, who have the clown names Lala and Zhuzha, prepare to perform at Okhmatdyt children's hospital in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday Sept. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Anton Shtuka)
Rescuers help elderly residents to leave their damaged home after Russia's guided air bomb hit an apartment building in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Friday, Aug. 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Andrii Marienko)
A damaged monument to Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin stands in a central square in Sudzha, Kursk region, Russia, Friday, Aug. 16, 2024. This image was approved by the Ukrainian Defense Ministry before publication. (AP Photo)
A Ukrainian serviceman of the 110th brigade pets dogs on his position at the frontline on Pokrovsk direction, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
The crowd reacts as the performer who goes by the name 'the Coma Coma', and an active serviceman of the Hroza battalion, performs during the Kvartyrynka music festival in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, Sept. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Alex Babenko)
A Ukrainian serviceman hugs his comrade after returning from captivity during a POWs exchange in Sumy region, Ukraine, Friday, May 31, 2024. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
A Ukrainian tank passes by a burning car near the Russian-Ukrainian border, Sumy region, Ukraine, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Stanislav, an injured Russian prisoner of war, lies in bed at the detention center in Ukraine's Lviv region, Thursday, April 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Yulia Ponomarenko kisses her newborn baby Marianna, at the maternity hospital №7 in Odesa, Ukraine, Monday, Nov. 11, 2024 (AP Photo/Nina Lyashonok)
People mourn near the coffins of Yaroslav Bazylevych's family members during the funeral service in the Garrison Church in Lviv, Ukraine, Friday, Sept. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Mykola Tys)
Local residents sit on a bench near the building damaged by a Russian airstrike in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Thursday Oct. 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Yevhen Titov)
An elderly man plays chess with a boy training him to perfect his game in Taras Shevchenko Park, in Kyiv Ukraine, Sunday, April 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
People bid farewell and lay flowers in the coffin of fallen Ukrainian serviceman Vadym Popelniuk, born in 1991, during a religious service in Independence Square in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, April 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
A man crosses a street downtown Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, April 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
Mother and teacher prepare the girls to practice in a ballet studio in a bomb shelter in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Monday, March 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
A shell-shocked Ukrainian soldier of the Azov brigade sits at the stabilization point after arriving from the front line, near Toretsk, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Emergency services work at the site of Okhmatdyt children's hospital hit by Russian missiles, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, July 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Children wearing traditional outfits wait before performing songs during a show of traditions for Masnytsia, a holiday that originates in pagan times, celebrating the end of winter, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, March 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
A man lies on the ground as he watches his burning house destroyed by a Russian airstrike in Vovchansk, Ukraine, on Saturday, May 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Security guards search captured Russian soldiers with a metal detector at the prisoner of war detention center in Ukraine's Lviv region, Thursday, April 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
A boy dives into the water during training in Kyiv's Liko Diving School, Wednesday, July 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Alex Babenko)
Natalia Sheleshei, 39, with her children Yehor, 12, and Anastasia, 5, wait for the return of Serhii at their apartment in Kyiv, Ukraine on Feb. 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
A Ukrainian serviceman in protective suit demonstrates grenade launcher to women during a training course for national resistance for local population in Kharkiv region, Ukraine, Friday, Sept.13, 2024. (AP Photo/Andrii Marienko)
Ukrainian soldiers of the 3rd assault brigade fly an FPV exploding drone over Russian positions in Kharkiv region, Ukraine, Aug. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Olha Faichuk, 79, kisses her neighbor as she is evacuated from her home, which was heavily damaged by a Russian airstrike in Lukiantsi, Kharkiv region, Ukraine, on Tuesday, April 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
A woman cries during the funeral ceremony of Ihor Kusochek, Ukrainian soldier of the Azov brigade in Bobrovytsia, Chernihiv region, Ukraine, Friday Oct. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
A man falls down to death from a burning apartment window after Russia's guided air bomb strike in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Friday, Aug. 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Andrii Marienko)
Firefighters extinguish a fire after a Russian attack on a residential neighborhood in Kharkiv, Ukraine Saturday, Feb. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Yevhen Titov)
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Crows fly above multi-storey apartment buildings during a blackout in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday Nov. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
Cadets turn on their flashlights to commemorate 659 Ukrainian children, who were killed during the war with Russia, in a military lyceum on World Children's Day in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
Vladyslava Kulinich, right, Tetiana Nosova, who have the clown names Lala and Zhuzha, prepare to perform at Okhmatdyt children's hospital in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday Sept. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Anton Shtuka)
Rescuers help elderly residents to leave their damaged home after Russia's guided air bomb hit an apartment building in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Friday, Aug. 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Andrii Marienko)
A damaged monument to Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin stands in a central square in Sudzha, Kursk region, Russia, Friday, Aug. 16, 2024. This image was approved by the Ukrainian Defense Ministry before publication. (AP Photo)
A Ukrainian serviceman of the 110th brigade pets dogs on his position at the frontline on Pokrovsk direction, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
The crowd reacts as the performer who goes by the name 'the Coma Coma', and an active serviceman of the Hroza battalion, performs during the Kvartyrynka music festival in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, Sept. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Alex Babenko)
A Ukrainian serviceman hugs his comrade after returning from captivity during a POWs exchange in Sumy region, Ukraine, Friday, May 31, 2024. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
A Ukrainian tank passes by a burning car near the Russian-Ukrainian border, Sumy region, Ukraine, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Stanislav, an injured Russian prisoner of war, lies in bed at the detention center in Ukraine's Lviv region, Thursday, April 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Yulia Ponomarenko kisses her newborn baby Marianna, at the maternity hospital №7 in Odesa, Ukraine, Monday, Nov. 11, 2024 (AP Photo/Nina Lyashonok)
People mourn near the coffins of Yaroslav Bazylevych's family members during the funeral service in the Garrison Church in Lviv, Ukraine, Friday, Sept. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Mykola Tys)
Local residents sit on a bench near the building damaged by a Russian airstrike in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Thursday Oct. 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Yevhen Titov)
An elderly man plays chess with a boy training him to perfect his game in Taras Shevchenko Park, in Kyiv Ukraine, Sunday, April 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
People bid farewell and lay flowers in the coffin of fallen Ukrainian serviceman Vadym Popelniuk, born in 1991, during a religious service in Independence Square in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, April 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
A man crosses a street downtown Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, April 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
Mother and teacher prepare the girls to practice in a ballet studio in a bomb shelter in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Monday, March 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
A shell-shocked Ukrainian soldier of the Azov brigade sits at the stabilization point after arriving from the front line, near Toretsk, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Emergency services work at the site of Okhmatdyt children's hospital hit by Russian missiles, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, July 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Children wearing traditional outfits wait before performing songs during a show of traditions for Masnytsia, a holiday that originates in pagan times, celebrating the end of winter, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, March 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
A man lies on the ground as he watches his burning house destroyed by a Russian airstrike in Vovchansk, Ukraine, on Saturday, May 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Security guards search captured Russian soldiers with a metal detector at the prisoner of war detention center in Ukraine's Lviv region, Thursday, April 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
A boy dives into the water during training in Kyiv's Liko Diving School, Wednesday, July 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Alex Babenko)
Natalia Sheleshei, 39, with her children Yehor, 12, and Anastasia, 5, wait for the return of Serhii at their apartment in Kyiv, Ukraine on Feb. 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
A Ukrainian serviceman in protective suit demonstrates grenade launcher to women during a training course for national resistance for local population in Kharkiv region, Ukraine, Friday, Sept.13, 2024. (AP Photo/Andrii Marienko)
Ukrainian soldiers of the 3rd assault brigade fly an FPV exploding drone over Russian positions in Kharkiv region, Ukraine, Aug. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Olha Faichuk, 79, kisses her neighbor as she is evacuated from her home, which was heavily damaged by a Russian airstrike in Lukiantsi, Kharkiv region, Ukraine, on Tuesday, April 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
A woman cries during the funeral ceremony of Ihor Kusochek, Ukrainian soldier of the Azov brigade in Bobrovytsia, Chernihiv region, Ukraine, Friday Oct. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
A man falls down to death from a burning apartment window after Russia's guided air bomb strike in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Friday, Aug. 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Andrii Marienko)
