Snow is cleared from the pitch at Dynamo Kiev before a Champions League match against Bayern Munich at NSC Olympiyskiy in Kyiv, Ukraine on November 23, 2021. The German visitors didn’t slip up in the freezing weather, winning the game 2-1. (Photo by Valentyn Ogirenko/Reuters)
People visit a monument to Holodomor victims during a commemoration ceremony of the famine of 1932-33, in which millions died of hunger, in Kyiv, Ukraine on November 27, 2021. (Photo by Gleb Garanich/Reuters)
A militant of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People’s Republic is seen at fighting positions on the line of separation from the Ukrainian armed forces in the outskirts of Kirovsk in Luhansk Region, Ukraine, December 1, 2021. (Photo by Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters)
Ukrainian activists from different parties held a rally against the “anti-Ukrainian” politics of the country’s President Volodymyr Zelensky, in Kiev on December 1, 2021. During the protest they denounced Zelensky’s call for direct negotiations with Russia to end an eight-year war with pro-Russian separatists in the country’s east. (Photo by Genya Savilov/AFP Photo)
A Ukrainian soldier holds a cat and walks in a trench on the line of separation from pro-Russian rebels near Debaltsevo, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Ukraine Friday, December3, 2021. In this Friday, the Ukrainian defense minister warned that Russia could invade his country next month. Russia-West tensions escalated recently with Ukraine and its Western backers becoming increasingly concerned that a Russian troop buildup near the Ukrainian border could signal Moscow’s intention to invade. (Photo by Andriy Dubchak/AP Photo)
A Ukrainian soldier take a rest near a fighting position on the line of separation from pro-Russian rebels near Katerinivka, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Tuesday, December 7, 2021. Ukrainian authorities on Tuesday charged that Russia is sending tanks and snipers to the line of contact in war-torn eastern Ukraine to “provoke return fire”, an accusation that comes amid fears that a Russian troop buildup near the Ukrainian border might indicate plans for an invasion. (Photo by Andriy Dubchak/AP Photo)
A Ukrainian soldier rests near a fighting position on the line of separation from pro-Russian rebels near Katerinivka, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Tuesday, December 7, 2021. When Russia annexed Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula in 2014 and threw its support behind separatists in the country’s east, Kyiv’s underfunded and disorganized armed forces struggled to respond. Now, amid fears that a Russian troop buildup near Ukraine’s border could signal a possible attack, military experts say there would be stronger resistance but that Ukraine would be well short of what it needs to counter Russia’s overwhelming land, sea and air superiority. (Photo by Andriy Dubchak/AP Photo)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, walks under a camouflage net in a trench as he visits the war-hit Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Monday, December 6, 2021. (Photo by Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP Photo)
People attend a protest against vaccination process and restrictions connected with coronavirus pandemic for unvaccinated people on the Independence Square in Kiev, Ukraine, 12 December 2021. Protesters demand the lawmakers don’t accept the law no. 4142 which considerably extend the rights of the Cabinet of Ministers for imposition of new restrictions during a COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo by Sergey Dolzhenko/EPA/EFE)
Halyna Moroka holds a portrait of her younger self in her house in the village of Nevelske in eastern Ukraine, Friday, December 10, 2021. The 7-year-old conflict between Russia-backed separatists and Ukrainian forces has all but emptied the village. “We have grown accustomed to the shelling”, said Moroka, 84, who has stayed in Nevelske with her disabled son. (Photo by Andriy Dubchak/AP Photo)
A Ukrainian serviceman walks along a street as a local resident looks on near the front line in the village of Travneve in Donetsk region, Ukraine, December 15, 2021. (Photo by Gleb Garanich/Reuters)
A local resident crosses a street near the front line in the village of Travneve in Donetsk region, Ukraine, December 15, 2021. (Photo by Gleb Garanich/Reuters)
A local resident stands next to an auto shop as a Ukrainian service member walks along a street near the front line in the village of Travneve in Donetsk region, Ukraine, December 15, 2021. (Photo by Gleb Garanich/Reuters)
A Ukrainian service member touches a dog on the front line near Travneve in Donetsk region, Ukraine, December 15, 2021. (Photo by Gleb Garanich/Reuters)
A Ukrainian service member looks at impacts of bullets in a window of the house of a local resident near the front line in the village of Travneve in Donetsk region, Ukraine, December 15, 2021. (Photo by Gleb Garanich/Reuters)
A Ukrainian serviceman walks along a street near the front line in the village of Travneve in Donetsk region, Ukraine, December 15, 2021. (Photo by Gleb Garanich/Reuters)
Kiev, Ukraine on December 17, 2021: Osokorky station of the Kyiv Metro features a mural painted in 2018 as part of the More Than Us project by street artists from Ukraine, Switzerland, the US, Brazil, Costa Rica, Spain, Belgium and Australia. (Photo by Vitaly Zalessky/TASS)
People walk past inflatable tanks placed outside a metro station in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev on December 16, 2021, during a protest action held by workers of a small private company producing inflatable dummies of military equipment for the armed forces after the Defence Ministry refused to pay for its order. (Photo by Sergei Supinsky/AFP Photo)
A couple visits a Christmas fair in the center of the Ukrainian capital of Kiev during a frosty winter evening on December 21, 2021. (Photo by Sergei Supinsky/AFP Photo)
In this image released by Ukrainian Defense Ministry Press Service, Ukrainian soldiers use a launcher with US Javelin missiles during military exercises in Donetsk region, Ukraine, Thursday, December 23, 2021. (Photo by Ukrainian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP Photo)
