Center on Europe and Eurasia

Russian President Vladimir Putin listens during a meeting on the development of occupied regions of Ukraine at the Kremlin on June 30, 2025. (Getty Images)

Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Donald Trump shake hands during a meeting on September 27, 2024, in New York City. (Alex Kent via Getty Images)

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin holds a meeting on education issues at the Kremlin in Moscow on July 10, 2025. (Mikhail Metzel via Getty Images)

A Ukrainian serviceman stands guard with a shotgun as his fellow soldiers install anti-drone nets over a road at an undisclosed location in the eastern Donetsk region on July 8, 2025, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Roman Pilipey via Getty Images)

Ukrainian servicemen walk past a Patriot air defense system at an undisclosed area on August 4, 2024. (Sergei Supinsky via Getty Images)

Ukrainian soldiers calibrate an agricultural drone, transformed into a front-line delivery system, during a demonstration at an undisclosed location near Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine, on June 14, 2025. (Florent Vergnes via Getty Images)

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Soldiers pulling down camouflage netting from a 122 mm howitzer 2A18 before combat work on June 19, 2025, in the Sumy region of Ukraine. (Nikoletta Stoyanova via Getty Images)

The Crimean Tatar flag flies on a flagpole in front of the Lviv Oblast Military Administration on May 17, 2024, in Lviv, Ukraine. (Stanislav Ivanov via Getty Images)

German Air Force helicopters get ready to take off in Panevezis, Lithuania, on May 6, 2025, during the Griffin Lightning 2025 military exercises. (Getty Images)

US Vice President JD Vance speaks with NATO Secretary General during a meeting in Munich, southern Germany, on February 14, 2025. (Tobias Schwarz via Getty Images)