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A drone equipped with an electronic warfare system takes off during a presentation on March 19, 2024, in Ukraine. (Photo by Viktor Fridshon/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)

Ukrainian infantrymen from the 126th Territorial Defense Brigade train on the banks of the Dnipro on April 16, 2024, in Kherson Oblast, Ukraine. (Photo by Kostiantyn Liberov/Libkos/Getty Images)

A small boat transfers a Romanian boarding team from Standing NATO Maritime Group Two (SNMG2) ship ROS Regele Ferdinand to SNMG2 flagship HMS Duncan on February 7, 2018. (NATO photo by GBRN LPhot Paul Hall)

Demonstrators protest against a controversial bill limiting so-called foreign influence in Tbilisi, Georgia, on April 28, 2024. (Photo by Nicolo Vincenzo Malvestuto/Getty Images)

A protestor holds a Taurus missile sign at a demonstration to show support for Ukraine in Cologne, Germany, on January 6, 2024. (Photo by Ying Tang/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

A soldier aims a rifle during a military drill in Kyiv Region, Ukraine. (Ukrinform via Getty Images)

An IranAir Airbus A330 at Mehrabad International Airport on March 11, 2017, in Tehran, Iran. (Photo by Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan Jeyhun Bayramov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan Mukhtar Tleuberdi, and Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia Alexander Khvtisiashvili attend a press conference after a ministerial meeting on Trans-Caspian connectivity in Aktau, Kazakhstan, on November 25, 2022. (Photo by Cem Ozdel/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Russian President Vladimir Putin watches a naval exercise from the Marshal Ustinov missile cruiser in the Black Sea on January 9, 2020. (Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

An Iranian citizen holds a placard in Tehran during a demonstration to support Iran's drone and missile attacks on Israel on April 15, 2024. (Photo by Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu via Getty Images)

US Marines disembark a Norwegian CB-90 class fast assault craft during a bilateral exercise in Narvik, Norway, on August 16, 2023. (US Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Aziza Kamuhanda)

A member of a Ukrainian artillery brigade during a training session near Chasiv Yar, Ukraine, on February 27, 2024. (Photo by Cristopher Rogel Blanquet/Getty Images)