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US sailors conduct routine maintenance on a jet blast deflector on the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Nimitz on July 9, 2025. (US Navy)
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Ukrainian soldiers sit on a armored military vehicle in the city of Severodonetsk, Donbas region, on April 7, 2022. (Photo by Fadel Senna/AFP via Getty Images)
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Smoke billows out from a damaged fuel depot in Odesa hours after a Russian missile strike on April 3. (James Barnett)
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy gives a virtual address on the 22nd day of the Russia-Ukraine war in Kyiv, Ukraine on March 17, 2022. (Getty Images)
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A territorial defense member signals to cars passing a checkpoint on April 3, 2022 in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Photo by Alexey Furman/Getty Images)
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A Ukranian serviceman walks between rubble of the destroyed regional headquarters of Kharkiv on March 27, 2022. (Photo by Aris Messinis / AFP via Getty Images)
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Ukrainian serviceman as seen on March 31, 2022 in Stoyanka, Ukraine. (Photo by Anastasia Vlasova/Getty Images)
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Smoke billows over Lviv after a Russian cruise missile strike on an oil storage depot in the city, March 26, 2022 / James Barnett
Experts
Daniel Kochis
Senior Fellow, Center on Europe and Eurasia
Liselotte Odgaard
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
Tomáš Pojar
Senior Fellow (Nonresident), Center on Europe and Eurasia
James J. Przystup
Senior Fellow, Japan Chair
Peter Rough
Senior Fellow and Director, Center on Europe and Eurasia
Kenneth R. Weinstein
Japan Chair
Richard Weitz
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Political-Military Analysis
