Russia-Ukraine recap

Police officers detain a man in Moscow on Wednesday, following calls to protest against mobilization announced by President Vladimir Putin. Alexander Nemenov/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

U.S. military veterans Andy Huynh, left, and Alexander Drueke. The two veterans, who disappeared while fighting Russia with Ukrainian forces on June 9, have been released after about three months in captivity, relatives said Wednesday, Sept. 21. Jeronimo Nisa/The Decatur Daily, left; and Lois "Bunny" Drueke/Dianna Shaw/AP hide caption

Ukrainian soldiers stand over bags containing the remains of exhumed bodies at a mass grave site in Izium, Ukraine. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption

A Ukrainian soldier stands atop an abandoned Russian tank near a village on the outskirts of Izium, in the Kharkiv region, eastern Ukraine. Ukraine said its swift offensive took significant ground back from Russia. Juan Barreto/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

International Atomic Energy Agency chief Rafael Mariano Grossi talks to reporters on a road outside the city of Zaporizhzhia after his visit to the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine on Sept. 1, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Genya Savilov/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

People attend a ceremony for the fallen soldiers of Ukraine on the Field of Mars on Aug. 24 in Lviv, Ukraine. The day marked six months since the start of Russia's large-scale invasion of Ukraine, as well as Ukraine's Independence Day. Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images hide caption

Ukrainians visit an avenue where destroyed Russian military hardware is displayed in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Saturday. Andrew Kravchenko/AP hide caption

A priest prays for unidentified civilians killed by Russian troops in Bucha, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Aug. 11. Eleven unidentified bodies exhumed from a mass grave were buried in Bucha that day. Efrem Lukatsky/AP hide caption

The cargo ship Razoni crosses the Bosporus Strait in Istanbul, Turkey, on Aug. 3. The first cargo ship to leave Ukraine since the Russian invasion was anchored at an inspection area in the Black Sea off the coast of Istanbul Wednesday morning before moving on to Lebanon. Khalil Hamra/AP hide caption

A grain combine harvester collects wheat near Novoazovsk outside Mariupol, Ukraine. -/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

People try to console a woman named Sabina after her husband Artem Pogorelets was killed by Russian shelling in a market in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on Thursday. Evgeniy Maloletka/AP hide caption

Ukrainian servicemen lay flowers at the site of a Russian shelling in Vinnytsia, Ukraine, on Friday. Russian missiles struck the city on Thursday, killing at least 23 people and injuring more than 100 others, Ukrainian officials said. Efrem Lukatsky/AP hide caption

Iryna Shulimova, 59, weeps at the scene in the aftermath of a Russian rocket that hit an apartment building in Chasiv Yar, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, on Sunday. At least 30 people were killed and others may still be trapped in the rubble. Nariman El-Mofty/AP hide caption

A woman cleans the area in front of a building hit by a missile strike in the Ukrainian town of Serhiivka, near Odesa, on Friday. The attack killed at least 18 people and injured 30. Oleksandr Gimanov/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

A destroyed building next to flowers on Thursday in Borodianka, Ukraine. The region around Ukraine's capital continues to recover from Russia's aborted assault on Kyiv, which turned many communities into battlefields. Alexey Furman/Getty Images hide caption

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson stands beside President Biden and other world leaders posing for a photo during the NATO summit on Wednesday in Madrid, Spain. The defense alliance declared Russia a direct threat and members are committing to boost troop levels and position heavy equipment along NATO's eastern flank. Stefan Rousseau/WPA Pool/Getty Images hide caption

A photograph taken Tuesday shows charred goods in a grocery store of the destroyed Amstor mall in Kremenchuk, central Ukraine, one day after it was hit by a Russian missile strike. Genya Savilov/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

A woman reacts as rescuers evacuate the body of her husband, who was killed in a rocket attack on a residential area in Kharkiv on Monday. The head of Kharkiv's regional administration said a Russian strike on Ukraine's second-largest city killed at least four people and wounded 19 others, including four children. Sergey Bobok/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

Smoke rises during fighting in the Luhansk region, eastern Ukraine, on Friday. Anatolii Stepanov/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

The Ukrainian (top) and European Union flags fly on poles in Kyiv on Thursday ahead of an EU summit in Brussels considering Ukraine's candidate status to join the 27-nation bloc. Nariman El-Mofty/AP hide caption

Service members of the 126th Separate Territorial Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine take part in military exercises in the Odesa region on Wednesday. Oleksandr Gimanov/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland and Ukrainian Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova meet in Krakovets, along the Ukrainian border with Poland, on Tuesday. Nariman El-Mofty/AP hide caption