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Moldovans hold national flags at a rally in the courtyard of Moldovan presidential headquarters in Chisinau, Moldova, on December 17, 2023. (Photo by Elena Covalnco/AFP via Getty Images)

A warship is seen docked in Sochi on November 27, 2023. (Mikhail Mordasov/AFP via Getty Images)

Volodymyr Zelensky and Jens Stoltenberg shake hands on April 29, 2023, in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Roman Pilipey via Getty Images)

Flags of Ukraine and NATO are seen in Kyiv, Ukraine, on April 29, 2024. (Photo by STR/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

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Giorgia Meloni speaks to the media on June 2, 2024, in Rome, Italy. (Photo by Antonio Masiello/Getty Images)

Russian President Vladimir Putin looks through the scope as he shoots a Chukavin sniper rifle during a visit to the military Patriot Park in Kubinka, outside Moscow, on September 19, 2018. (Photo by Alexey Nikolsky/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images)

A 550-ton outer dome is hoisted in place at the construction site of the world's first commercial small modular reactor, Linglong One, on February 6, 2024, in Hainan Province, China. (Photo by Luo Yunfei/China News Service/VCG via Getty Images)

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Chinese President Xi Jinping with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in Budapest, Hungary, on May 9, 2024. (Photo by Xie Huanchi/Xinhua via Getty Images)

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