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An oil tanker is being unloaded with imported crude oil at the Qingdao Port Oil Terminal in Shandong Province, China on April 7, 2026. (Getty Images)
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Damage from a Russian rocket strike on a state administration building in Kherson, Ukraine, on December 19, 2022. (Wikimedia Commons)
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US Marines with Fighter Attack Squadron 312 prepare F/A-18 Hornets to take off for flight from Łask Air Base in Poland on April 27, 2022. (US Marine Corps photo by Adam Henke)
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A monument of a Soviet tank with a Ukrainian flag in Bakhmut, Ukraine, on January 29, 2023. (Marek M. Berezowski/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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A photograph shows a street-art piece by Italian urban artist Tvboy on a destroyed Russian tank outside Kyiv, Ukraine, on February 1, 2023. (Dimitar Dilkoff via Getty Images)
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Ukrainian and Polish soldiers hold wreaths during Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Polish President Andrzej Duda's visit to Lychakiv Cemetery in Lviv, Ukraine, on January 11, 2023. (President of Ukraine via Flickr)
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A Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) poster displaying North Korean nuclear tests on February 12, 2013, at the CTBTO headquarters in Vienna, Austria. (Dieter Nagl/AFP via Getty Images)
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President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy meets with British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in Kyiv, Ukraine, on November 19, 2022. (President of Ukraine via Flickr)
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A Ukrainian artilleryman confirms targets near Bakhmut, Ukraine, on February 7, 2023. (Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP via Getty Images)
Experts
Daniel Kochis
Senior Fellow, Center on Europe and Eurasia
Ken Moriyasu
Senior Fellow
Liselotte Odgaard
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
Tomáš Pojar
Senior Fellow (Nonresident), Center on Europe and Eurasia
James J. Przystup
Senior Fellow, Japan Chair
Peter Rough
Senior Fellow and Director, Center on Europe and Eurasia
Kenneth R. Weinstein
Japan Chair
Richard Weitz
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Political-Military Analysis
