Center on Europe and Eurasia

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A monument of a Soviet tank with a Ukrainian flag in Bakhmut, Ukraine, on January 29, 2023. (Marek M. Berezowski/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Ukrainian and Polish soldiers hold wreaths during Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Polish President Andrzej Duda's visit to Lychakiv Cemetery in Lviv, Ukraine, on January 11, 2023. (President of Ukraine via Flickr)

Vladimir Putin. (Kremlin)

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A Ukrainian artilleryman confirms targets near Bakhmut, Ukraine, on February 7, 2023. (Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP via Getty Images)

Ukrainian soldiers fire an artillery shell on the frontline in Donetsk, Ukraine, on December 4, 2022. (Diego Herrera Carcedo/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

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The crew of a Leopard 2 main battle tank waiting for Chancellor Olaf Scholz during his visit to the Bundeswehr army training center in Ostenholz, Germany, on October 17, 2022. (David Hecker via Getty Images)

A US Army Patriot missile system launches a rocket as part of a NATO training exercise in Greece on November 11, 2017. (DVIDS)

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy meets with Joe Biden in the Oval Office on December 21, 2022. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)

An F-16 Fighting Falcon lands at Spangdahlem Air Base in Germany on April 30, 2022, after a three-month rotational deployment at Fetesti Air Base in Romania. (US Air Force photo by Anthony Plyler)