Center on Europe and Eurasia

Russian President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with Saudi Deputy Crown Prince and Defense Minister Mohammed bin Salman during a meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow on May 30, 2017. (Pavel Golovkin/AFP via Getty Images)

Ukrainian soldiers on patrol on March 6, 2022 in Irpin, Ukraine. (Photo Laurent Van der Stockt pour Le Monde/Getty Images)

Ukrainian service members look for and collect unexploded shells after a fighting with Russian raiding group in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv on February 26, 2022. (Photo by Sergei Supinsky/AFP via Getty Images)