Young cadets attend a ceremony on the occasion of the first day of school at a cadet lyceum in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, September 1, 2021. Ukraine marks Sept. 1 as Knowledge Day, as a traditional launch of the academic year. (Photo by Efrem Lukatsky/AP Photo)
A local man walks during a funeral ceremony of 30 civilians, who were exhumed from a mass grave a week ago near Irmino village not far from Pervomaysk in self-proclaimed Lugansk People’s Republic, Ukraine, 31 August 2021. Locals gathered for a reburial ceremony for the remains of 30 unidentified civilian victims who were lost and buried in an improvised grave during fighting between pro-Russian militants and Ukrainian forces during the Eastern-Ukrainian conflict in 2014. (Photo by Alexander Usenko/EPA/EFE)
Schoolgirls in traditional uniforms, sing Ukraine’s national anthem as they attend a ceremony of the first day in school at a cadet lyceum in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, September 1, 2021. Ukraine marks Sept. 1 as Knowledge Day, as a traditional launch of the academic year. (Photo by Efrem Lukatsky/AP Photo)
A Ukrainian marine fires in the direction of the positions of Russia-backed separatists not far from the separatist stronghold of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine on September 13, 2021. (Photo by Anatolii Stepanov/AFP Photo)
Militants of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic queue in an information centre to vote in the Russian parliamentary election via an online system in the rebel-held city of Donetsk, Ukraine on September 17, 2021. (Photo by Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters)
A woman poses by a retro car, an exhibit of OldCarLand festival, at the open-air State Aviation Museum in Kiev during the festival’s opening on September 17, 2021. (Photo by Sergei Supinsky/AFP Photo)
A Ukrainian serviceman fires at a drone from a position on the frontline with Russia-backed separatists near the town of New York (Novgorodske), Donetsk region, on September 17, 2021. (Photo by Anatolii Stepanov/AFP Photo)
People take part in the annual Gay Pride parade, under the protection of riot police in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, September 19, 2021. Around five thousand LGBT activists and associations paraded in the center of Kyiv. (Photo by Efrem Lukatsky/AP Photo)
People take part in the annual Gay Pride parade, under the protection of riot police in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, September 19, 2021. (Photo by Efrem Lukatsky/AP Photo)
LGBTQ+ activists march in the center of the Ukrainian capital of Kiev during KyivPride-2021 on September 19, 2021. (Photo by Sergei Supinsky/AFP Photo)
An acrobat performs during a presentation of the new show “Aquatoria. Circus on Water” at the National Circus in Kyiv, Ukraine September 18, 2021. (Photo by Valentyn Ogirenko/Reuters)
A contestant holds three Pomeranians during the FCI-CACIB Zakarpattia 2021 International Dog Show at the Avanhard Stadium, Uzhhorod, Zakarpattia Region, western Ukraine on September 19, 2021. (Photo by Ukrinform/Rex Features/Shutterstock)
Demonstrators shout slogans during a rally of entrepreneurs and representatives of small businesses against plans to approve changes to the tax code, in front of the parliament building in Kyiv, Ukraine on September 23, 2021. (Photo by Valentyn Ogirenko/Reuters)
Reservists of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People’s Republic army take part in exercises at the training ground outside the rebel-controlled city of Luhansk, Ukraine on September 23, 2021. (Photo by Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters)
Environmental activists take part in a rally demanding actions to avert climate change in central Kyiv, Ukraine on September 26, 2021. (Photo by Serhii Nuzhnenko/Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy attends a ceremony at the monument to Jewish victims of Nazi massacres in Ukraine’s capital Kyiv, Wednesday, September 29, 2021. The ceremony commemorated the 80th anniversary of the Nazi massacre of Jews at the Babi Yar ravine, where at least 33,770 Jews were killed over a 48-hour period on Sept. 29, 1941. (Photo by Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP Photo)
People watch an art installation commemorating victims of the 1941 Babi Yar massacre close to a Babi Yar ravine, where the Nazi killed tens of thousands of Jews during WWII, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, October 3, 2021. Ukraine marked the 80th anniversary of the 1941 Babi Yar massacre. (Photo by Efrem Lukatsky/AP Photo)
Jellyfish swarm the waters of the Black Sea around Odesa port, southern Ukraine on October 4, 2021. (Photo by Ukrinform/Rex Features/Shutterstock)
An art installation commemorating victims of the Babi Yar massacre during commemorative events marking the 80th anniversary of the Babi Yar massacre of Kyiv Jews perpetrated by German occupying forces in 1941 in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, October 6, 2021. (Photo by Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP Photo)
