In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, Vladimir Putin enters a hall to meet with graduates of higher military educational institutions at the Kremlin on June 23, 2025. (Alexander Kazakov via Getty Images)
A formation of Dongfeng-41 nuclear missiles takes part in a military parade celebrating the seventieth anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China in Beijing on October 1, 2019. (Xia Yifang via Getty Images)
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President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy pose for a picture with European leaders following a meeting at the White House on August 18, 2025. (Win McNamee via Getty Images)
A US Marine Corps VXE30 Stalker unmanned aerial system is staged during a maritime domain awareness training exercise in southern Finland on July 31, 2025. (DVIDS)
Ukrainian soldiers in a 2S3 Akatsiya howitzer on the front line near Toretsk, Ukraine, on August 2, 2023. (Wojciech Grzedzinski/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
People light candles to the portrait of politician and warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin at an informal memorial for PMC Wagner Group at Varvarka street near the Kremlin on August 24, 2023, in Moscow, Russia. (Contributor via Getty Images)
Ukrainian soldiers fire with D-30 artillery at Russian positions in the direction of Klishchiivka in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, on August 13, 2023. (Diego Herrera Carcedo/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen address a press conference in front of a F-16 fighter jet in the hangar of the Skrydstrup Airbase in Vojens, Denmark, on August 20, 2023. (Mads Claus Rasmussen/Ritzau Scanpix/AFP via Getty Images)
An operator carries a reusable airstrike drone called Punisher made by UA Dynamics during a test in Kyiv on August 11, 2023. (Sergei Supinsky/AFP via Getty Images)
A Ukrainian soldier of the 24th Separate Mechanized Brigade stands outside the town of New York on the front lines of Russia's war against Ukraine on July 28, 2023. (Wojciech Grzedzinski/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
A Ukrainian soldier from a mechanized brigade trains using live ammunition at a training ground near the front lines in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, on July 31, 2023. (Wojciech Grzedzinski/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)