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A Ukrainian serviceman on January 24, 2024. (Dmytro Smolienko via Getty Images)

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Luke Coffey sitting before the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Europe and Regional Security Cooperation. (Screenshot via You Tube)

An apartment building in the Kyiv lies in ruins after a Russian missile attack on January 2, 2024. (Kirill Chubotin via Getty Images)

Ukrainian soldiers prepare a long range drone near the Bakhmut frontline in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, on January 12, 2024. (Ignacio Marin/Anadolu via Getty Images)

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Soldiers at the training ground calibrate their weapons after going into combat against the positions of the Russian army on January 12, 2024, in Lyman district, Ukraine. (Kostiantyn Liberov/Libkos via Getty Images)

Ukrainian soldiers fire "Mini Grad" multi-barrel rocket launchers at Russian positions in the direction of Kupiansk in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on January 7, 2024. (Ozge Elif Kizil/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Yemen's Houthis held a military parade commemorating the ninth anniversary of their takeover of the capital Sana'a on September 21, 2023, in Sana'a, Yemen. (Mohammed Hamoud via Getty Images)

Communal workers walk next to a crater and destroyed houses following a Russian shelling in Kyiv on December 11, 2023. (Roman Pilipey/AFP via Getty Images)

Black smoke billows from a fire on the Kerch bridge that links Crimea to Russia after a truck exploded near Kerch on October 8, 2022. (AFP via Getty Images)

Russian President Vladimir Putin leaves the hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace on December 8, 2023, in Moscow, Russia. (Getty Images)