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)
Senior lecturer in the Department of Security Studies and Criminology at Macquarie University, Council of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute
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)
Supporters of Ukraine hold a rally to mark the one-year anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine near the Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall on February 25, 2023, in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer via Getty Images)
China's Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin takes a question at a briefing about the phone call between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky at the Foreign Ministry in Beijing on April 26, 2023. (Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images)
Russian Navyâs lone aircraft carrier is towed to the shipyard for maintenance in Murmansk, Russia, on May 20, 2022. (Semen Vasileyev/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
People looking at drones on display in an exhibition in the PMC Wagner Centre during the official opening of the office block on the National Unity Day in Saint Petersburg, on November 4, 2022. (Olga Maltseva/AFP via Getty Images)
A Ukrainian tank fires during practice on the frontline of the Russia-Ukraine War in Donetsk, Ukraine, on March 29, 2023. (Muhammed Enes Yildirim/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
US Army National Guard Soldiers with Battery C conduct pre-mobilization training exercise America’s Shield on May 15, 2022, at McEntire Joint National Guard Base, South Carolina. (Tim Andrews via DVIDS)
Servicemen belonging to the Ukrainian storm brigade take part in military exercises outside Kyiv on April 20, 2023. (Sergei Supinsky/AFP via Getty Images)
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky shake hands during a joint a press-conference following their meeting in Kyiv, Ukraine, on April 20, 2023. (STR/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Ukrainian soldiers fire targets on the front line in the direction of the city of Ugledar, Donetsk, Ukraine as Russia-Ukraine war continues on April 18, 2023. (Muhammed Enes Yildirim/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)