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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken welcomes Turkmenistan Foreign Minister Rashid Meredov in the Treaty Room at the State Department in Washington, DC, on April 24, 2023. (Oliver Contreras/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Trident Juncture 18 takes place in Norway and the surrounding areas of the North Atlantic and the Baltic Sea, including Iceland and the airspace of Finland and Sweden, on November 7, 2018. (NATO via Flickr)

Servicemen belonging to the Ukrainian storm brigade take part in military exercises outside Kyiv on April 20, 2023. (Sergei Supinsky/AFP via Getty Images)

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky shake hands during a joint a press-conference following their meeting in Kyiv, Ukraine, on April 20, 2023. (STR/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Ukrainian soldiers fire targets on the front line in the direction of the city of Ugledar, Donetsk, Ukraine as Russia-Ukraine war continues on April 18, 2023. (Muhammed Enes Yildirim/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

A Taliban fighter stands guard as Muslim devotees offer Eid al-Fitr prayers outside a mosque in a street in Kabul on May 1, 2022. (Wakil Kohsar/AFP via Getty Images)

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Ukrainian sailors kept on their ship by Russian servicemen as Russian forces without insigna invide Crimea in Sevastopol, Ukraine, on March 5, 2014. (Pierre Crom via Getty Images)

A view of the area during ongoing construction works of Cerkezkoy-Kapikule railway line in Edirne, Turkey, on October 22, 2021. (Gokhan Balci/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

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Finnish, NATO, and US flags during a NATO foreign ministers' meeting at the alliance's headquarters in Brussels on April 4, 2023. (Johanna Geron/AFP via Getty Images)