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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)

The Israel Missile Defense Organization of the Directorate of Defense Research and Development and the US Missile Defense Agency completed a successful flight test campaign with the Arrow-3 Interceptor missile at Pacific Spaceport Complex-Alaska in Kodiak, Alaska, on July 23, 2019. (Missile Defense Agency via DVIDS)

Ukrainian soldiers fire with D-30 artillery at Russian positions in the direction of Klishchiivka in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, on August 13, 2023. (Diego Herrera Carcedo/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

A window of an apartment lies broken as result of Russian missile strike on August 15, 2023, in Lviv, Ukraine. (Mykola Tys/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)

An operator carries a reusable airstrike drone called Punisher made by UA Dynamics during a test in Kyiv on August 11, 2023. (Sergei Supinsky/AFP via Getty Images)

A Ukrainian soldier of the 24th Separate Mechanized Brigade stands outside the town of New York on the front lines of Russia's war against Ukraine on July 28, 2023. (Wojciech Grzedzinski/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko speaks during a meeting with Commonwealth of Independent States officials in Minsk on May 28, 2021. (Dmitry Astakhov/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

A Ukrainian soldier from a mechanized brigade trains using live ammunition at a training ground near the front lines in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, on July 31, 2023. (Wojciech Grzedzinski/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)