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Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping enter the hall during a signing ceremony on May 20, 2026, in Beijing, China. (Getty Images)
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Servicemen of the 128th Separate Brigade of Territorial Defense Forces practice storming enemy positions during a tactical drill in the Zaporizhzhia direction, southeastern Ukraine. (Ukrinform/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un visiting the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Amur region on September 13, 2023. (Vladimir Smirnov/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
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Rustem Umerov speaks in the Ukrainian parliament in Kyiv on September 6, 2023. (Andrii Nesterenko/AFP via Getty Images)
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Russian Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu at a meeting ceremony in North Korea on July 25, 2023. (Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation via Wikimedia Commons)
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A grass-camouflaged serviceman of the Armed Forces of Ukraine takes part in a training with UAV operators on June 15, 2023, in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Andriy Zhyhaylo/Obozrevatel/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)
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A destroyed Russian tank sits in a snow covered wheat field in Kharkiv region amid Russia's military invasion on Ukraine on February 22, 2023. (Anatolii Stepanov/AFP via Getty Images)
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Ukrainian soldiers in a 2S3 Akatsiya howitzer on the front line near Toretsk, Ukraine, on August 2, 2023. (Wojciech Grzedzinski/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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People light candles to the portrait of politician and warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin at an informal memorial for PMC Wagner Group at Varvarka street near the Kremlin on August 24, 2023, in Moscow, Russia. (Contributor via Getty Images)
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Matthew Boyse
Senior Fellow, Center on Europe and Eurasia
Luke Coffey
Senior Fellow, Center on Europe and Eurasia
Tsiporah Fried
Visiting Senior Fellow
Can Kasapoğlu
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
