Rep. Carolyn Maloney ‘horrified’ by Russian invasion of Ukraine

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Residential apartment buildings are seen heavily damaged after a Russian attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 24, 2022.

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Fire burns at a shopping mall after it was struck by a missile on July 3, 2022, in Sloviansk, Ukraine. The attack was one of many in the city early Sunday afternoon, which targeted residential neighborhoods, destroyed homes and left at least 6 people dead and 15 injured.

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An armed man stands at a road block in downtown Kyiv on March 1, 2022. Ukrainian President described Russian shelling of his country's second city as a war crime and said defending the capital from Moscow's army was a top priority.

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Andrey Goncharuk, 68, right, a member of the territorial defense speaks to a man in the backyard of a house damaged by a Russian airstrike, according to locals, in Gorenka, outside the capital Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 2, 2022.

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Firefighters work in an apartment building damaged by shelling in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 15, 2022.

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Firefighters work to extinguish a fire at a shopping mall after it was struck by a missile on July 3, 2022, in Sloviansk, Ukraine.

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Local militiamen help an old woman crossing a bridge destroyed by artillery, as she tries to flee, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 2, 2022.

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An inside view of the regional administration building shows heavy damage after a Russian attack earlier this month in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 24, 2022.

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A car waits to cross a checkpoint from territory controlled by Russia-backed separatists to the territory controlled by Ukrainian forces in Novotroitske, eastern Ukraine, Monday, Feb. 21, 2022. World leaders are making another diplomatic push in hopes of preventing a Russian invasion of Ukraine, even as heavy shelling continues in Ukraine's east.

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Ukrainian soldiers are carrying the body of Denys Hrynchuk from Hrynchuk family's house to the church in Bila Krynytsia, on March 6, 2022, in Chernivtsi region, Ukraine. Denys Hrynchuk served in the Ukrainian army. He was killed on Feb. 28, 2022, near Volnovakha, Donetsk region. He is survived by his mother, five brothers and a sister, his wife and his one-year-old son.

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A destroyed car is seen in front of a building damaged by shelling in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Sunday, March 13, 2022.

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A boy plays with a weapon as an instructor shows a Kalashnikov assault rifle while training members of a Ukrainian far-right group in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, Feb. 20, 2022. Russia extended military drills near Ukraine's northern borders Sunday amid increased fears of sustained shelling along the contact line between soldiers and Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine could spark an invasion.

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From left, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, President Joe Biden, Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and France's President Emmanuel Macron pose for a G7 leaders group photo during a NATO summit in Brussels, Belgium on Thursday, March 24, 2022.

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A Ukrainian Territorial Defence Forces member holds an NLAW anti-tank weapon in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 9, 2022. Authorities announced a new ceasefire on Wednesday to allow civilians to escape from towns around the capital, Kyiv, as well as the southern cities of Mariupol, Enerhodar and Volnovakha, Izyum in the east and Sumy in the northeast. Previous attempts to establish safe evacuation corridors have largely failed due to attacks by Russian forces.

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A man leaves a vehicle damaged by shelling in Brovary, outside Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 1, 2022.

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A mother embraces her son who escaped the besieged city of Mariupol and arrived at the train station in Lviv, western Ukraine on Sunday, March 20, 2022.

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Ihor Mazhayev, 54, stands by his destroyed house on March 5, 2022, in Markhalivka, Ukraine. Ihor lost his wife and 12-year-old daughter and got a concussion as a result of a shelling. Regional police said six people died, including a child, and four were wounded in a Russian air strike on this village southwest of Kyiv.

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Firefighters extinguish a building of Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) after a rocket attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 2, 2022.

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Neighbors try to extinguish the fire of a house destroyed after a Russian attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 24, 2022.

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Ukrainian soldiers and emergency employees work at the side of the damaged by shelling maternity hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 9, 2022.

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A child is carried on a stroller across an improvised path while fleeing Irpin, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 9, 2022.

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Smoke is seen above buildings close to the airport on March 18, 2022, in Lviv, Ukraine. Lviv's mayor said on Telegram that the airport was not hit, but an area nearby. While Lviv, and western Ukraine more generally, has been a relative haven since Russia invaded Ukraine last month, there have been missile strikes across the region targeting airports and military sites.

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A view of destroyed Russian ammunition on March 5, 2022, in Sytniaky, Ukraine. Russia continues assault on Ukraine's major cities, including the capital Kyiv, more than a week after launching a large-scale invasion of the country.

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A man takes a Ukrainian national flag swinging from a tree as he walks near a destroyed accommodation building by a checkpoint in Brovary, outside Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 1, 2022.

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Cars drive past a destroyed Russian tank as a convoy of vehicles evacuating civilians leaves Irpin, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 9, 2022.

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Damaged radar, a vehicle and equipment are seen at a Ukrainian military facility outside Mariupol, Ukraine, Thursday, Feb. 24, 2022.

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In this image made from video provided by the Border Service of Ukraine, military vehicles pass a control point at the Armyansk checkpoint at the Ukraine-Crimea border, Thursday, Feb. 24, 2022. The Ukrainian border service on Thursday released video it said showed Russian military vehicles crossing its border from Crimea. In a statement, it added that "the movement of military equipment from the peninsula is being recorded across the administrative border".

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In this photo provided by Yurii Kochubei, a view of the damage after shelling inside a sports complex, in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Saturday, March 5, 2022.

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A firefighter extinguishes a fire at a residential apartment block that was hit by a missile on Feb. 26, 2022, in Kyiv, Ukraine.

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Ukrainian firefighters look at fragments of a downed aircraft seen in in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, Feb. 25, 2022. It was unclear whose aircraft crashed and who brought it down amid the Russian invasion in Ukraine. Russia is pressing its invasion of Ukraine to the outskirts of the capital after unleashing airstrikes on cities and military bases and sending in troops and tanks from three sides.

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Dead bodies are placed into a mass grave on the outskirts of Mariupol, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 9, 2022, as people cannot bury their dead because of the heavy shelling by Russian forces.

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Members of the Ukrainian military stand amid debris from a damaged residential apartment block caused after a Russian rocket was shot down by Ukrainian air defenses on March 14, 2022, in Kyiv, Ukraine.

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An elderly woman is helped by policemen after she was rescued by firefighters from inside her apartment after bombing in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 15, 2022. Russia's offensive in Ukraine has edged closer to central Kyiv with a series of strikes hitting a residential neighborhood as the leaders of three European Union member countries planned a visit to Ukraine's embattled capital.

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Firemen extinguish a fire inside a residential building that was hit by a missile on Feb. 25, 2022, in Kyiv, Ukraine.

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A factory and a store burn after being bombarded in Irpin, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, March 6, 2022.

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A medical worker attends to a wounded man at a hospital in Brovary, outside Kyiv, Ukraine, on Tuesday, March 1, 2022. Russian shelling pounded civilian targets in Ukraine's second-largest city, Kharkiv, again Tuesday and a 40-mile convoy of tanks and other vehicles threatened the capital, tactics Ukraine's embattled president said were designed to force him into concessions in Europe's largest ground war in generations.

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Firefighters extinguish a building of Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) after a rocket attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 2, 2022.

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Tanks and armored vehicles move during the Union Courage-2022 Russia-Belarus military drills at the Obuz-Lesnovsky training ground in Belarus, Saturday, Feb. 19, 2022.

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Ukrainian volunteers prepare food for displaced people outside Lviv railway station, in Lviv, western Ukraine, Thursday, March 3, 2022. Russia's invasion of Ukraine has forced more than a million people to flee their homeland in just a week.

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Members of the Joint Centre for Control and Coordination on ceasefire of the demarcation line, or JCCC, take forensic photos of a crater and damage to a house from an artillery shell that landed in Vrubivka, one of the at least eight that hit the village today, according to local officials, in the Luhansk region, eastern Ukraine, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022.

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Women pass by the apartment block in 6A Lobanovsky Ave. which was hit with a missile on Feb. 26, 2022, in Kyiv, Ukraine.

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Old city photographs are seen amongst debris at the destroyed Kharkiv Regional State Administration building on March 27, 2022, in Kharkiv, Ukraine.

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A factory and a store are burning after being bombarded in Irpin, in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, March 6, 2022.

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In this handout photo provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, center, attends an urgent meeting with the leadership of the government, representatives of the defense sector and the economic block in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, Feb. 24, 2022. Russian troops have launched their anticipated attack on Ukraine.

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A military priest tries to comfort a crying woman who was evacuated from Irpin, at a triage point in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 9, 2022.

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A soldier walks through the destroyed Kharkiv Regional State Administration building on March 27, 2022, in Kharkiv, Ukraine. More than half Kharkiv's 1.4 million people have fled the city since Russia's invasion on Feb. 24, which was followed by weeks of intense bombardment. Russian forces remain to the city's north and east, but have met heavy resistance from Ukrainian troops here.

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The dead body of a person lies covered in the street in Mariupol, Ukraine, Monday, March 7, 2022.

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People gather in the Kyiv subway, using it as a bomb shelter in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 2, 2022. Russian forces have escalated their attacks on crowded cities in what Ukraine's leader called a blatant campaign of terror.

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Andrey Goncharuk, 68, a member of territorial defense, walks in the backyard of a house damaged by a Russian airstrike, according to locals, in Gorenka, outside the capital Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 2, 2022.

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Cars drive past a destroyed Russian tank as a convoy of vehicles evacuating civilians leaves Irpin, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 9, 2022.

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In this photo taken from video provided by the Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022, Russian army tanks are loaded onto railway platforms to move back to their permanent base after drills in Russia. Russia says it is returning more troops and weapons to bases, but NATO says it sees no sign of a drawdown as fears that Moscow could invade Ukraine soon persist. Russia has massed about 150,000 troops east, north and south of Ukraine.

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In this photo taken from video provided by the Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Friday, Feb. 18, 2022, Russian army tanks are loaded onto railway platforms to move back to their permanent base after drills in Russia. The Russian military said that it was pulling some troops back to their permanent bases after drills in regions near Ukraine, but the U.S. and its allies challenged that and charged that Moscow was actually beefing up troops near Ukraine.

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Damaged and burned vehicles are seen at a destroyed part of the Illich Iron & Steel Works Metallurgical Plant, as smoke rises from the Metallurgical Combine Azovstal during heavy fighting, in an area controlled by Russian-backed separatist forces in Mariupol, Ukraine, Monday, April 18, 2022. Mariupol, a strategic port on the Sea of Azov, has been besieged by Russian troops and forces from self-proclaimed separatist areas in eastern Ukraine for more than six weeks.

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Yuri (R), a bus driver, and his son Ruslan, a doctor, stand in front of a bus damaged in this morning's air strikes at a nearby military complex, while they wait outside Novoiavorivsk District Hospital on March 13, 2022, in Novoiavorivsk, Ukraine.

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A building is engulfed in flames after shelling in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 3, 2022.

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A rocket fragment lies on the ground next to a building of Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) after a rocket attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 2, 2022. Russia's assault on Kharkiv, Ukraine's second largest city, continued Wednesday, with a Russian strike hitting the regional police and intelligence headquarters, according to the Ukrainian state emergency service.

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Pedestrians cross a destroyed bridge as they evacuate the city of Irpin, northwest of Kyiv, on March 6, 2022, 11 days after Russia launched a military invasion on Ukraine.

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A Ukrainian volunteer removes rubble to open up an abandoned shelter, in Lviv, western Ukraine, Thursday, March 3, 2022.

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A view of a house which was shelled on March 6, 2022, in Irpin, Ukraine.

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Members of the territorial defense battalion set up a machine gun and organize a military redoubt on Feb. 25, 2022, in Kyiv, Ukraine.

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A view toward the city of Irpin under shelling on March 6, 2022, in Ukraine. Three civilians were killed and others were wounded as Russian mortar rounds landed between Irpin and Kyiv this morning, striking a route used by civilians fleeing southeast toward Kyiv. Russia continued its assault on Ukraine's major cities, including its capital, more than a week after launching a large-scale invasion of the country.

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People shelter with their dog in a subway station before a curfew comes into effect on Feb. 24, 2022, in Kyiv, Ukraine. Overnight, Russia began a large-scale attack on Ukraine, with explosions reported in multiple cities and far outside the restive eastern regions held by Russian-backed rebels.

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Ukrainian soldiers handle equipment outside Kharkiv, Ukraine, Saturday, Feb. 26, 2022. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy claimed Saturday that Ukraine's forces had repulsed the assault and vowed to keep fighting. "We will win," Zelenskyy said.

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Volunteers load bodies of civilians killed in Bucha onto a truck to be taken to a morgue for investigation on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday on April 12, 2022.

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People look at a burning apartment building in a yard after shelling in Mariupol, Ukraine, Sunday, March 13, 2022.

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The regional government headquarters of Mykolaiv, Ukraine is seen following a Russian attack on Tuesday, March 29, 2022. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says seven people were killed in a missile strike on the regional government headquarters in the southern city of Mykolayiv.

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A woman is overwhelmed by emotion in the backyard of a house damaged by a Russian airstrike, according to locals, in Gorenka, outside the capital Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 2, 2022.

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Ukrainian serviceman stand on a destroyed bridge between the village of Dytiatky and Chernobyl, Ukraine on Tuesday, April 5, 2022.

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Residents of Irpin flee heavy fighting via a destroyed bridge as Russian forces entered the city on March 07, 2022, in Irpin, Ukraine.

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A local resident searches for her belongings in an apartment building after it was hit by artillery shelling in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, March 14, 2022.

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Local residents pass at a damaged Russian tank in the town of Trostsyanets, some 400 km (250 miles) east of capital Kyiv, Ukraine on Monday, March 28, 2022. The monument to the Second World War is seen in background. The more than month-old war has killed thousands and driven more than 10 million Ukrainians from their homes.

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This photograph shows a view of a school destroyed as a result of fighting not far from the center of Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, located some 50 km from Ukrainian-Russian border, on Feb. 28, 2022.

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A member of the Ukrainian Emergency Service looks at the City Hall building in the central square following shelling in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 1, 2022. Russian strikes pounded the central square in Ukraine's second-largest city and other civilian sites Tuesday in what the country's president condemned as blatant campaign of terror by Moscow.

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Ukrainian serviceman walks past the vertical tail fin of a Russian Su-34 bomber lying in a damaged building in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 8, 2022.

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In this photo provided by Yurii Kochubei, a view of the damage after shelling inside a sports complex, in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Saturday, March 5, 2022. An official in one of Ukraine's pro-Russia separatist region says Russian forces will observe a temporary cease-fire Sunday in two Ukrainian cities. An agreement to allow civilians to evacuate collapsed a day earlier amid continued shelling and the flight of refugees to neighboring nations.

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Firefighters work to extinguish a fire after an airstrike hit a tire shop in Lviv, Ukraine, Monday, April 18, 2022. Russian missiles hit the city of Lviv in western Ukraine on Monday, killing at least six people, Ukrainian officials said, as Moscow's troops stepped up strikes on infrastructure in preparation for an all-out assault on the east.

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People walk past a crater from the explosion on Mira Avenue in Mariupol, Ukraine, Sunday, March 13, 2022. The surrounded southern city of Mariupol, where the war has produced some of the greatest human suffering, remained cut off despite earlier talks on creating aid or evacuation convoys.

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A man places a small Ukrainian flag on the burnt balcony of an apartment in a block which was destroyed by an artillery strike in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, March 14, 2022. Russia's military forces kept up their punishing campaign to capture Ukraine's capital with fighting and artillery fire in Kyiv's suburbs Monday after an airstrike on a military base near the Polish border brought the war dangerously close to NATO's doorstep.

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Ukrainian soldiers take position under a bridge during crossfire inside the city of Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, Feb. 25, 2022. Russia pressed its invasion of Ukraine to the outskirts of the capital Friday after unleashing airstrikes on cities and military bases and sending in troops and tanks from three sides in an attack that could rewrite the global post-Cold War security order.

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Ukrainian servicemen are seen by the building which got shelled near Lukyanivska metro station on March 14, 2022, in Kyiv, Ukraine.

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A view to the site of an explosion as a result of a missile strike into the shopping mall on March 21, 2022, in Kyiv, Ukraine.

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A U.S. soldier plays with a dog at a military camp in Arlamow, southeastern Poland, near the border with Ukraine, on Monday, Feb. 28, 2022.

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This image taken from video released by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Tuesday, March 1, 2022, shows a view from the window of a Russian military helicopter as it flies over an undisclosed location in Ukraine.

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy examines the site of a recent battle in Bucha, close to Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, April 4, 2022. Russia is facing a fresh wave of condemnation after evidence emerged of what appeared to be deliberate killings of civilians in Ukraine.

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People cross an improvised path under a destroyed bridge while fleeing the town of Irpin, Ukraine on March 6, 2022. In Irpin, near Kyiv, a sea of people on foot and even in wheelbarrows trudged over the remains of a destroyed bridge to cross a river and leave the city.

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A resident looks for belongings in an apartment building destroyed during fighting between Ukrainian and Russian forces in Borodyanka, Ukraine, Tuesday, April 5, 2022. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Russian troops of gruesome atrocities in Ukraine and told the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday that those responsible should immediately be brought up on war crimes charges in front of a tribunal like the one set up at Nuremberg after World War II.

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Ukrainian troops inspect the site following a Russian airstrike in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, Feb. 26, 2022.

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Refugees fleeing conflict in Ukraine warm up near a fire after arriving at the Medyka border crossing in Poland on Monday, Feb. 28, 2022. The head of the United Nations refugee agency says more than a half a million people had fled Ukraine since Russia's invasion on Thursday.

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A Ukrainian serviceman walks by a building which was hit by a large caliber mortar shell in the frontline village of Krymske, Luhansk region, in eastern Ukraine, Saturday, Feb. 19, 2022.

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A firefighter walks past a rocket crater in the courtyard of the destroyed Kharkiv Regional State Administration building on March 27, 2022, in Kharkiv, Ukraine.

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Ukrainian emergency service personnel carry the body of a victim following shelling of the City Hall building in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 1, 2022. Russia on Tuesday stepped up shelling of Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, pounding civilian targets there. Casualties mounted and reports emerged that more than 70 Ukrainian soldiers were killed after Russian artillery recently hit a military base in Okhtyrka, a city between Kharkiv and Kyiv, the capital.

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In this photo provided by Yurii Kochubei, a view of the damage after shelling on a sports venue, in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Saturday, March 5, 2022.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, chairs a Security Council meeting in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Monday, Feb. 21, 2022. Putin has convened top officials to consider recognizing the independence of separatist regions in eastern Ukraine. Such a move would ratchet up tensions with the West amid fears that the Kremlin could launch an invasion of Ukraine imminently.

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A Polish soldier carries a baby of a Ukrainian refugee upon their arrival at the border crossing in Medyka, southeastern Poland, Wednesday, March 2, 2022. Seven days into the war, roughly 874,000 people have fled Ukraine and the U.N. refugee agency warned the number could cross the 1 million mark soon.

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The view of military facility which was destroyed by recent shelling in the city of Brovary outside Kyiv on March 1, 2022. Russian troops will carry out an attack on the infrastructure of Ukraine's security services in Kyiv and urged residents living nearby to leave, the defense ministry said on March 1, 2022.

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Volunteers work to make molotov cocktails in the basement of a bomb shelter on Feb. 26, 2022, in Kyiv, Ukraine.

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In this frame from a footage released by the State service of special communication and information protection of Ukraine, the regional administration building in the city's central square of Kharkiv, Ukraine, after Russian shelling, Tuesday, March 1, 2022.

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Ukrainian servicemen stand in trenches at a position north of the capital Kyiv, Ukraine on Tuesday, March 29, 2022. The first face-to-face talks in two weeks between Russia and Ukraine began Tuesday in Turkey, raising flickering hopes there could be progress toward ending a war that has ground into a bloody campaign of attrition.

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A boy plays on a swing in front of a damaged residential block hit by an early morning missile strike on Feb. 25, 2022, in Kyiv, Ukraine.

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A home is left in ruins after being struck by a missile on July 3, 2022, in Sloviansk, Ukraine. The attack was one of many in the city early Sunday afternoon.

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In this photo released by Ukrainian State Emergency Service press service, firefighters evacuate an elderly woman from an apartment building hit by shelling in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, March 14, 2022.

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Ukrainian servicemen sit in front of a damaged house near a checkpoint in Brovary, outside Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 1, 2022.

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A Ukrainian soldier helps an elderly woman who was being evacuated on a shopping cart from Irpin, in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 8, 2022.

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Damaged radar arrays and other equipment is seen at Ukrainian military facility outside Mariupol, Ukraine, Thursday, Feb. 24, 2022.

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Members of a Territorial Defence unit guard a barricade close to the eastern frontline on March 5, 2022, in Kyiv, Ukraine.

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A firefighter works to extinguish a fire after shelling in Kharkiv, Ukraine on Wednesday, April 13, 2022.

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The view of military facility which was destroyed by recent shelling in the city of Brovary outside Kyiv on March 1, 2022.

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Yehor, 7, stands holding a wooden toy rifle next to destroyed Russian military vehicles near Chernihiv, Ukraine, Sunday, April 17, 2022. Witnesses said multiple explosions believed to be caused by missiles struck the western Ukrainian city of Lviv early Monday as the country was bracing for an all-out Russian assault in the east.

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Civilians train with members of the Georgian Legion, a paramilitary unit formed mainly by ethnic Georgian volunteers to fight against Russian forces in Ukraine in 2014, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, Feb. 19, 2022. Separatist leaders in eastern Ukraine have ordered a full military mobilization amid growing fears in the West that Russia is planning to invade the neighboring country. The announcement on Saturday came amid a spike in violence along the line of contact between Ukrainian forces and the pro-Russia rebels in recent days.

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Firefighters extinguish a building of Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) after a rocket attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 2, 2022.

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A destroyed vehicle is seen on March 3, 2022, in Sytniaky, Ukraine, west of the capital.

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Smoke billows from a power and heating plant after it is was shelled in Shchastya, in the Luhansk region, eastern Ukraine, Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2022. Russia says it's recognition of independence for areas in eastern Ukraine extends to territory currently held by Ukrainian forces. The statement Tuesday further raises the stakes amid Western fears that Moscow could follow up on Monday's recognition of rebel regions with a full-fledged invasion of Ukraine.

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A couple embrace prior to the woman boarding a train carriage leaving for western Ukraine at the railway station in Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine, Sunday, Feb. 27, 2022.

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A resident holds a white flag as he flees heavy fighting via a destroyed bridge as Russian forces entered the city on March 07, 2022, in Irpin, Ukraine.

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A building burns after shelling in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 3, 2022. Russia has launched a wide-ranging attack on Ukraine, hitting cities and bases with airstrikes or shelling.

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Damaged radar arrays and other equipment is seen at a Ukrainian military facility outside Mariupol, Ukraine, Thursday, Feb. 24, 2022. Russia has launched a barrage of air and missile strikes on Ukraine early Thursday and Ukrainian officials said that Russian troops have rolled into the country from the north, east and south.

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A member of the Territorial Defense Battalion helps to evacuate a child on March 6, 2022, in Irpin, Ukraine. Three civilians were killed and others were wounded as Russian mortar rounds landed between Irpin and Kyiv this morning, striking a route used by civilians fleeing southeast toward Kyiv. Russia continued its assault on Ukraine's major cities, including its capital, more than a week after launching a large-scale invasion of the country.

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Ukrainian soldiers and firefighters search for people under debris inside a shopping center after shelling in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, March 21, 2022.

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A residential building damaged by a missile on Feb. 25, 2022, in Kyiv, Ukraine.

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An elderly woman stands amid rubble near a damaged apartment building at a front line district of Kharkiv on March 27, 2022, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

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A blown up bridge is seen on Kyiv's northern front on March 1, 2022. Defending capital Kyiv is the "key priority," Ukrainian president said.

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A Ukrainian soldier inspects a destroyed Russian APC after recent battle in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 24, 2022. The writing made by Ukrainian soldiers reads: "Not to War." Kharkiv is Ukraine's second biggest city 30 kilometers of the Russian border.

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A mother holds her newborn baby in the bomb shelter of a maternity hospital on March 2, 2022, in Kyiv, Ukraine. Russian forces continued their advance on the Ukrainian capital for the seventh day as the country's invasion of its western neighbor goes on. Intense battles are also being waged over Ukraine's other major cities.

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A view of a burned car where 4 people died as a result of a shelling on March 5, 2022, in Markhalivka, Ukraine.

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A view of destroyed apartments damaged by shelling in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Sunday, March 13, 2022.

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In this frame from a footage released by the State service of special communication and information protection of Ukraine, firemen work inside the regional administration building in the city's central square of Kharkiv, Ukraine, after Russian shelling, Tuesday, March 1, 2022. Russian shelling pounded civilian targets in Ukraine's second-largest city, Kharkiv, Tuesday and a 40-mile convoy of tanks and other vehicles threatened the capital, tactics Ukraine's embattled president said were designed to force him into concessions in Europe's largest ground war in generations.

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A view of heavy damage in the residential area of Borodyanka, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 3, 2022. following a Russian strike.

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Members of a Territorial Defence unit play checkers with molotov cocktails while guarding a barricade after curfew on the outskirts of eastern Kyiv on March 6, 2022, in Kyiv, Ukraine.

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Ukrainian soldiers and firefighters search in a destroyed building after a bombing attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, March 14, 2022.

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A heavily damaged apartment building is seen at a front line district of Kharkiv on March 27, 2022, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

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A Ukranian serviceman enters the destroyed regional headquarters of Kharkiv on March 27, 2022. France's President Emmanuel Macron has warned against a verbal "escalation" of Russia's invasion in Ukraine, after U.S. President Joe Biden branded Vladimir Putin a "butcher" who "cannot remain in power." In Kharkiv, where authorities reported 44 artillery strikes and 140 rocket assaults in a single day, residents were resigned to the incessant bombardments.

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People stand next to fragments of military equipment on the street in the aftermath of an apparent Russian strike in Kharkiv in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Thursday, Feb. 24, 2022. Russian troops have launched their anticipated attack on Ukraine. Big explosions were heard before dawn in Kyiv, Kharkiv and Odesa as world leaders decried the start of an Russian invasion that could cause massive casualties and topple Ukraine's democratically elected government.

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A military vehicle with Ukrainian servicemen drives through the road on Feb. 25, 2022, in Kyiv, Ukraine. Yesterday, Russia began a large-scale attack on Ukraine, with Russian troops invading the country from the north, east and south, accompanied by air strikes and shelling. The Ukrainian president said that at least 137 Ukrainian soldiers were killed by the end of the first day.

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A Ukrainian man rides his bicycle near to a factory and a store burning after being bombarded in Irpin, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, March 6, 2022.

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A view to the site of an explosion as a result of a missile strike into the shopping mall on March 21, 2022, in Kyiv, Ukraine.

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A man wounded in this morning's air strikes at a nearby military complex is assisted by medical staff outside Novoiavorivsk District Hospital on March 13, 2022, in Novoiavorivsk, Ukraine. Early this morning, a series of Russian missiles struck the International Center for Peacekeeping and Security at the nearby Yavoriv military complex, killing at least 35 and wounding scores, according to Ukrainian officials. The site is west of Lviv and mere miles from Ukraine's border with Poland, a NATO member.

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A Ukrainian serviceman stands amid destroyed Russian tanks in Bucha, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, April 6, 2022.

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A destroyed vehicle is seen at the destroyed Kharkiv Regional State Administration building on March 27, 2022, in Kharkiv, Ukraine.

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Firefighters extinguish fires in an apartment building after being hit by shelling in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 15, 2022.

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Ukrainian soldiers take cover from incoming artillery fire in Irpin, the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, March 13, 2022.

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A family walks out of a basement used as shelter during an air-raid alarm in Novoiavorisk, western Ukraine, Sunday, March 13, 2022. Waves of Russian missiles pounded a military training base close to Ukraine's western border with NATO member Poland.

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Civilians try to cross a river on a blown up bridge on Kyiv's northern front on March 1, 2022.

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Ukrainian servicemen take an APC for repairs on March 3, 2022, in Sytniaky, Ukraine, west of the capital. Russia continues its assault on Ukraine's major cities, including the capital Kyiv, a week after launching a large-scale invasion of the country.

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A family crosses from pro-Russian separatists controlled territory to Ukrainian government controlled areas in Stanytsia Luhanska, the only crossing point open daily, in the Luhansk region, eastern Ukraine, Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2022.

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People stand around a damaged structure caused by a rocket on Feb. 24, 2022, in Kyiv, Ukraine.

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A view of the residential houses which were destroyed by shelling on March 5, 2022, in Markhalivka, Ukraine.

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A Ukrainian serviceman walks past as fire and smoke rises over a damaged logistic center after shelling in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 3, 2022.

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Firefighters work to extinguish a fire at a damaged logistic center after shelling in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 3, 2022. Russian forces have escalated their attacks on crowded cities in what Ukraine's leader called a blatant campaign of terror.

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A woman takes photos of a destroyed accommodation building near a checkpoint in Brovary, outside Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 1, 2022.

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A woman is assisted by a member of the Ukrainian military as she flees heavy fighting in Irpin via a destroyed bridge as Russian forces entered the city on March 07, 2022, in Irpin, Ukraine.

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Neighbors try to extinguish the fire of a house destroyed after a Russian attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 24, 2022.

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A volunteer of Ukraine's Territorial Defense Forces stands in the crater from the explosion near a checkpoint in Brovary, outside Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 1, 2022.

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Volunteers of the Ukrainian Territorial Defense Forces inspect a damaged military vehicle in the outskirts of Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, Monday, March 7, 2022. Russia announced yet another cease-fire and a handful of humanitarian corridors to allow civilians to flee Ukraine. Previous such measures have fallen apart and Moscow's armed forces continued to pummel some Ukrainian cities with rockets Monday.

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A firefighter walks outside a destroyed apartment building after a bombing in a residential area in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 15, 2022.

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This image taken from video provided by the Mariupol City Council shows the aftermath of Mariupol Hospital after an attack, in Mariupol, Ukraine, Wednesday March 9, 2022. A Russian attack severely damaged the children's hospital and maternity ward in the besieged port city of Mariupol, Ukrainian officials said. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote on Twitter that there were "people, children under the wreckage" of the hospital and called the strike an "atrocity."

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Metal road blocks built by volunteers sit outside a welding shop before being taken to new checkpoints across the country, in Lviv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 3, 2022.

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A volunteer smokes next to sandbags using for protection at a Ukrainian volunteer center in Mykolaiv, southern Ukraine, on Monday, March 28, 2022. Ukrainian volunteers have set up a center to supply army and civilians with clothes, food, medicines and makeshift bullet proof vests.

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Ukrainian servicemen are seen at the explosion site as a result of a rocket strike into the shopping mall on March 21, 2022, in Kyiv, Ukraine. As Russia's advance on Kyiv has largely stalled, the Ukrainian capital has continued to be hit by missiles and shellfire. More than three million people have fled Ukraine since Russia launched its large-scale invasion of the country on Feb. 24.

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Policemen work to identify civilians who were killed during the Russian occupation in Bucha, Ukraine, on the outskirts of Kyiv, before sending the bodies to the morgue, Wednesday, April 6, 2022.

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A woman carries a television from a residential apartment block that was hit by Russian shelling on March 14, 2022, in Kyiv, Ukraine. Russian forces continue to attempt to encircle the Ukrainian capital, although they have faced stiff resistance and logistical challenges since launching a large-scale invasion of Ukraine last month. Russian troops are advancing from the northwest and northeast of the city.

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A Ukrainian serviceman takes a shooting position as he looks at approaching vehicles in Irpin, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 9, 2022.

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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan attend a bilateral meeting during a NATO summit on Russia's invasion of Ukraine at the alliance's headquarters in Brussels on Thursday March 24, 2022.

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A statue of Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko is seen protected by sandbags on March 27, 2022, in Kharkiv, Ukraine.

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A man rides a bicycle in front of an apartment building damaged by shelling in Mariupol, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 9, 2022.

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Smoke and flames rise over a field during the Union Courage-2022 Russia-Belarus military drills at the Obuz-Lesnovsky training ground in Belarus, Saturday, Feb. 19, 2022. Russia has deployed troops to its ally Belarus for sweeping joint military drills that run through Sunday, fueling Western concerns that Moscow could use the exercise to attack Ukraine from the north.

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Ukrainian soldiers of the 103rd Separate Brigade of the Territorial Defense of the Armed Forces fire their weapons during a training exercise at an undisclosed location, near Lviv, western Ukraine, Tuesday, March 29, 2022.

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Ukrainian soldiers ride a tank through the town of Trostsyanets, some 400 km east of capital Kyiv, Ukraine, on Monday, March 28, 2022. The more than month-old war has killed thousands and driven more than 10 million Ukrainians from their homes.

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Hundreds of beds are placed inside a sports hall to accommodate Ukrainian refugees fleeing Russian invasion at the border crossing town of Medyka, Poland, on Tuesday, March 1, 2022. All day long, as trains and buses bring people fleeing Ukraine to the safety of Polish border towns, they carry not just Ukrainian fleeing a homeland under attack but large numbers of other citizens who had made Ukraine their home and whose fates too are now uncertain.

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Screens display the results of a vote on a resolution regarding the war in Ukraine at United Nations headquarters, Thursday, March 24, 2022.

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A view of the central square following shelling of the City Hall building in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 1, 2022. Russia on Tuesday stepped up shelling of Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, pounding civilian targets there. Casualties mounted and reports emerged that more than 70 Ukrainian soldiers were killed after Russian artillery recently hit a military base in Okhtyrka, a city between Kharkiv and Kyiv, the capital.

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People examine the damage after shelling of a shopping center in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, March 21, 2022. Eight people were killed in the attack.

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People gather amid the destruction caused after shelling of a shopping center in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, March 21, 2022.

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A woman walking in a street is visible through a roof of a building hit by shelling in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Sunday, March 20, 2022.

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A view of destroyed Russian ammunition on March 5, 2022, in Sytniaky, Ukraine.

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Dogs look at an elderly woman who shared food with them while waiting to cross from Ukrainian government controlled areas to pro-Russian separatists' controlled territory in Stanytsia Luhanska, the only crossing point open daily, in the Luhansk region, eastern Ukraine, Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2022.

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Two militiamen hug as they meet crossing a destroyed bridge on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 2. 2022. Russia renewed its assault on Ukraine's second-largest city in a pounding that lit up the skyline with balls of fire over populated areas. That came Wednesday even as both sides said they were ready to resume talks aimed at stopping the new devastating war in Europe.

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An interior ministry sapper collects unexploded shells, grenades and other devices in Hostomel, close to Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, April 18, 2022.

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Damaged cars and a destroyed accommodation building are seen near a checkpoint in Brovary, outside Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 1, 2022.

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Valentyna Melnychenko walks with members of the Joint Centre for Control and Coordination on ceasefire of the demarcation line, or JCCC, who survey damage to her home from an artillery shell that landed in Vrubivka, one of the at least eight that hit the village today, according to local officials, in the Luhansk region, eastern Ukraine, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022. U.S. President Joe Biden warned that Russia could still invade Ukraine within days and Russia expelled the No. 2 diplomat at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, as tensions flared anew in the worst East-West standoff in decades.

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A view of smoke from inside a damaged gym following shelling in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 2, 2022. Russian forces have escalated their attacks on crowded cities in what Ukraine's leader called a blatant campaign of terror.

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In this image taken from video released by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Tuesday, March 1, 2022, Russian soldiers disembark from a Russian military helicopter after landing at an undisclosed location in Ukraine. On Day 7 of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, Russia continued its attacks on crowded Ukrainian cities and a lengthy convoy of Russian tanks and other vehicles advanced slowly toward the capital of Kyiv.

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People with their belongings in a city subway that they have used as a bomb shelter in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 24, 2022. World leaders heard impassioned pleas Thursday from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for more military aid to defend his country and the United States announced new sanctions and humanitarian aid as officials gathered for a trio of summits to discuss next steps in countering Russia's month-old invasion of its much smaller neighbor.

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People prepare for the night in the improvised bomb shelter in a sports center, which can accommodate up to 2000 people, in Mariupol, Ukraine, late Sunday, Feb. 27, 2022.

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A group of women and a boy walk to the train station as they try to leave Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 2, 2022. Russian forces have escalated their attacks on crowded cities in what Ukraine's leader called a blatant campaign of terror.

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Soldiers walk amid destroyed Russian tanks in Bucha, in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, April 3, 2022. Ukrainian troops are finding brutalized bodies and widespread destruction in the suburbs of Kyiv, sparking new calls for a war crimes investigation and sanctions against Russia.

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In this image from video provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks from Kyiv, Ukraine on Tuesday, April 12, 2022.

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A view of heavy damage in the residential area of Borodyanka, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 3, 2022, following a Russian strike.

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A dog wanders around destroyed houses and Russian military vehicles, in Bucha close to Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, April 4, 2022. Russia is facing a fresh wave of condemnation after evidence emerged of what appeared to be deliberate killings of civilians in Ukraine.

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People hide from the Russian artillery shelling in a school basement in the village of Horenka close to Kyiv, Ukraine, on March 6, 2022. On Day 11 of Russia's war on Ukraine, Russian troops shelled encircled cities, and it appeared that a second attempt to evacuate civilians from the besieged port city of Mariupol had failed due to continued violence.

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Ukrainians crowd under a destroyed bridge as they try to flee crossing the Irpin river in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 8, 2022. Demands for ways to safely evacuate civilians have surged along with intensifying shelling by Russian forces, who have made significant advances in southern Ukraine but stalled in some other regions. Efforts to put in place cease-fires along humanitarian corridors have repeatedly failed amid Russian shelling.

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Smoke rises from a damaged armored vehicle at a checkpoint in Brovary, outside Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 1, 2022.

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A damaged building is seen on March 27, 2022, in Kharkiv, Ukraine.

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A man and woman stand next to fragments of military equipment on the street in the aftermath of an apparent Russian strike in Kharkiv in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Thursday, Feb. 24, 2022.

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This photograph shows a view of a school destroyed as a result of fighting not far from the center of Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, located some 50 km from Ukrainian-Russian border, on Feb. 28, 2022.