Internally displaced people arrive at a center in Zaporizhzhia, northwest of Mariupol, on Wednesday. Bulent Kilic/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
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Activists hold Ukrainian flags as they protest against Russia's invasion of Ukraine during a rally at Lafayette Square, across from the White House, in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 25. New U.S. sanctions Sanctions are being enacted on top Russian officials and family members, including President Vladimir Putin's adult children. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
In this photo taken from video footage released by the Roscosmos Space Agency, three Russian cosmonauts sport yellow spacesuits upon arriving on the International Space Station. A NASA astronaut now says it was not in support for Ukraine, but for the Russians' university school colors. Roscosmos/AP hide caption
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks to members of the media, before departing for Brussels from Joint Base Andrews, in Maryland, on Tuesday. EVELYN HOCKSTEIN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
A resident looks for belongings on Tuesday in an apartment building destroyed during fighting between Ukrainian and Russian forces in Borodyanka, Ukraine. Vadim Ghirda/AP hide caption
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addresses the United Nations Security Council via video link on Tuesday in New York City. Spencer Platt/Getty Images hide caption
A woman walks past a currency exchange office in central Moscow on Feb. 24. Alexander Nemenov/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Destruction in Bucha, Ukraine, on Monday. Metin Aktas/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images hide caption
US Ambassador to the UN, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, visits Gara de Nord railway station where infrastructure has been put in place to welcome and assist refugees coming from Ukraine, in Bucharest, Romania, on April 4th, 2022 Ioana Moldovan for NPR hide caption
U.S. ambassador to the U.N. calls for suspending Russia from the Human Rights Council
April 5: A resident looks for belongings in an apartment building destroyed during fighting between Ukrainian and Russian forces in Borodyanka, northwest of Kyiv. Vadim Ghirda/AP hide caption
A poster photo of U.S. Marine Corps veteran and Russian prisoner Trevor Reed is hung in Lafayette Park near the White House on Wednesday. Patrick Semansky/AP hide caption
People react as they gather close to a mass grave in the town of Bucha, just northwest of the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv on Sunday. Sergei Supinsky/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Ukrainian servicemen ride on a fighting vehicle outside Kyiv on Saturday. Russian forces are retreating from the capital's region as they turn their firepower to the south and east. Vadim Ghirda/AP hide caption
The International Space Station in orbit on May 23, 2011. Paolo Nespoli - ESA/NASA via Getty Images hide caption
Damage is seen after what Russia says was a Ukrainian Army attack on an oil refinery in Belgorod, Russia, on Friday. Anadolu Agency via Getty Images hide caption
FILE - EU and Chinese flags are seen at the Europa building in Brussels, Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2019 (John Thys/Pool Photo via AP, File) John Thys/AP hide caption
A local resident carries a cage on Thursday while walking past an apartment building destroyed in the besieged city of Mariupol. Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters hide caption
Ivan Fedorov (third from left), then first deputy head of the Zaporizhzhia Regional State Administration, attends a meeting on road repairs in southeastern Ukraine in 2020. Fedorov, now the mayor of Melitopol, was abducted by Russian forces earlier this month and later freed. Dmytro Smolyenko/Future Publishing via Getty Images hide caption
Aleksii Simchenko welds together pieces of scrap steel to make a set of plates for body armor. Becky Sullivan/NPR hide caption
President of South Ossetia Anatoly Bibilov (right) during the Victory Day military parade marking the 75th anniversary of the victory in World War II, on June 24, 2020 in Moscow. Handout/Host Photo Agency via Getty Imag hide caption
Angelina Voychenko (left) and her children and Yuliya Bortnik (right) and her son fled Mariupol after hiding for weeks in the basement of Voychenko's parents' home, with no electricity, phone service or heat, as the building shook from fighter jets and explosions. When they emerged to buy food, what they saw made them decide to leave: destroyed buildings, looted stores, no food in sight. Becky Sullivan/NPR hide caption
This aerial view taken near Kyiv on Wednesday shows a destroyed house in the village of Lukianivka. Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Expedition 66 crew members (left to right) Mark Vande Hei of NASA and cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov of Roscosmos are seen inside their Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft after it landed in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan on Wednesday in Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan. Bill Ingalls/NASA/Getty Images hide caption
Olga and Oleksandr hug as they wait beside a vehicle painted with the word "volunteers" at an evacuation center in Zaporizhzhya, Ukraine, on Tuesday. Olga's father is stuck in Mariupol, and Oleksandr is hoping to get in a volunteer convoy to the city, now under Russian siege. Emre Caylak/AFP via Getty Images hide caption