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Bucket-wheel excavators mine rare earth materials on Ukrainian soil on February 25, 2025, in the Zhytomyr region of Ukraine. (Kostiantyn Liberov via Getty Images)
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Ukrainian servicemen at a site of a residential building destroyed by a Russian missile attack near Kyiv, Ukraine on November 23, 2022. (Maxym Marusenko/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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Ukrainian tanks on the move in Kherson, Ukraine, on November 23, 2022. (Chris McGrath/Getty Images)
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Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III in Simi Valley, California, on December 3, 2022. (US Secretary of Defense via Flickr)
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(Screenshot via Kyiv Post/YouTube)
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Ukrainian Army soldier Ihor Gutsenko gets ready to fly an Airlogix unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) surveillance drone in a field outside Kyiv on November 9, 2022. (Paula Bronstein via Getty Images)
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Firefighters conduct search and rescue operations at a residential building hit by a kamikaze drone on October 17, 2022, in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Yevhenii Zavhorodnii/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)
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A Ukrainian grad rocket fires near Kherson, Ukraine, on October 7, 2022. (Metin Aktas/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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A US Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon takes off from Aviano Air Base, Italy, on June 16, 2022. (US Air Force photo by Senior Airman Brooke Moeder)
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Vladimir Putin speaks during his press conference at the Rus Sanatorium on October 31, 2022, in Sochi, Russia. (Getty Images)
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Matthew Boyse
Senior Fellow, Center on Europe and Eurasia
Luke Coffey
Senior Fellow, Center on Europe and Eurasia
