U.S. basketball player Brittney Griner appears on a screen via video link from the detention centre during a court hearing to consider an appeal against her prison sentence, in Krasnogorsk, Moscow Region, Russia October 25, 2022. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina 

Local resident Tatyana, aged 74, holds a cat while speaking about her life outside her house in the rebel-controlled area of the settlement Zaitseve (Zaitsevo) in the Donetsk region, Ukraine January 28, 2022. Tatyana is among few other people, who still live in the village divided by the line of separation between pro-Russian rebels and the armed forces of Ukraine. REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko 

Midas, a four-month-old kitten born with four ears, is pictured at her home in Ankara, Turkey November 19, 2021. REUTERS/Cagla Gurdogan 

An Israeli F35 aircraft is seen in mid-flight during "Blue Flag", an aerial exercise hosted by Israel with the participation of foreign air force crews, at Ovda military air base, southern Israel November 11, 2019. Picture taken November 11, 2019. REUTERS/Amir Cohen 

Israeli air force pilots are seen inside the cockpit of a F15 aircraft during "Blue Flag", an aerial exercise hosted by Israel with the participation of foreign air force crews, at Ovda military air base, southern Israel November 11, 2019. Picture taken November 11, 2019. REUTERS/Amir Cohen 

An Italian F35 aircraft is seen on the runway during "Blue Flag", an aerial exercise hosted by Israel with the participation of foreign air force crews, at Ovda military air base, southern Israel November 11, 2019. Picture taken November 11, 2019. REUTERS/Amir Cohen 

An Israeli F35 aircraft is seen during "Blue Flag", an aerial exercise hosted by Israel with the participation of foreign air force crews, at Ovda military air base, southern Israel November 11, 2019. Picture taken November 11, 2019. REUTERS/Amir Cohen 

An Israeli F35 aircraft is seen on the runway during "Blue Flag", an aerial exercise hosted by Israel with the participation of foreign air force crews, at Ovda military air base, southern Israel November 11, 2019. Picture taken November 11, 2019. REUTERS/Amir Cohen 

An Italian F35 aircraft is seen on the runway during "Blue Flag", an aerial exercise hosted by Israel with the participation of foreign air force crews, at Ovda military air base, southern Israel November 11, 2019. Picture taken November 11, 2019. REUTERS/Amir Cohen 

An Israeli F16 aircraft is seen during "Blue Flag", an aerial exercise hosted by Israel with the participation of foreign air force crews, at Ovda military air base, southern Israel November 11, 2019. Picture taken November 11, 2019. REUTERS/Amir Cohen 

Air Force crew members pose for a picture during "Blue Flag", an aerial exercise hosted by Israel with the participation of foreign air force crews, at Ovda military air base, southern Israel November 11, 2019. Picture taken November 11, 2019. REUTERS/Amir Cohen 

An Israeli air force pilot climbs into a F35 aircraft during "Blue Flag", an aerial exercise hosted by Israel with the participation of foreign air force crews, at Ovda military air base, southern Israel November 11, 2019. Picture taken November 11, 2019. REUTERS/Amir Cohen 

An American F16 aircraft is seen on the runway during "Blue Flag", an aerial exercise hosted by Israel with the participation of foreign air force crews, at Ovda military air base, southern Israel November 11, 2019. Picture taken November 11, 2019. REUTERS/Amir Cohen 

An German Eurofighter aircraft is seen in mid-flight during "Blue Flag", an aerial exercise hosted by Israel with the participation of foreign air force crews, at Ovda military air base, southern Israel November 11, 2019. Picture taken November 11, 2019. REUTERS/Amir Cohen 

An Israeli F15 aircraft is seen on the runway during "Blue Flag", an aerial exercise hosted by Israel with the participation of foreign air force crews, at Ovda military air base, southern Israel November 11, 2019. Picture taken November 11, 2019. REUTERS/Amir Cohen 

A Russian Blue cat plays during the international pets and zoo industry exhibition Pet Expo 2019 in Riga, Latvia March 23, 2019. REUTERS/Ints Kalnins 

Russian Kilo-class diesel-electric submarine Krasnodar, with the Ottoman-era Blue mosque and the Byzantine-era monument of Hagia Sophia in the background, sails in the Bosphorus, on its way to the Mediterranean Sea, in Istanbul, Turkey, March 14, 2019. REUTERS/Yoruk Isik 

The Russian Navy's landing ship Nikolai Filchenkov, with the Ottoman-era Blue mosque and the Byzantine-era monument of Hagia Sophia in the background, sails in the Bosphorus, on its way to the Mediterranean Sea, in Istanbul, Turkey September 29, 2018. REUTERS/Yoruk Isik 

A cat sits in front of a retro car owned by retired mechanic Mikhail Krasinets at an open-air museum of Soviet-era vehicles in the village of Chernousovo, Tula region, Russia August 28, 2018. Picture taken August 28, 2018. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY 

A security guard looks towards the Spasskaya Tower of the Kremlin and St. Basil's Cathedral from a pedestrian bridge over the Moskva river at the Zaryadye Park in central Moscow, Russia September 18, 2018. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov 

A British Blue cat is lit up by sunlight diffracted through an aquarium at an apartment in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, Russia July 8, 2018. REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY 

A British Blue cat is lit up by sunlight diffracted through an aquarium at an apartment in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, Russia July 8, 2018. REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY 

A British Blue cat is lit up by sunlight diffracred through an aquarium at an apartment in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, Russia July 8, 2018. REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin 

A room of a surgery department of a former Soviet military hospital, which lies derelict since 1991 when the last Russian troops left Hungary, is seen in Budapest, Hungary, May 22, 2017. REUTERS/Laszlo Balogh SEARCH "SOVIET HOSPITAL" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY 

An iniured person walks outside Sennaya Ploshchad metro station, following explosions in two train carriages at metro stations in St. Petersburg, Russia April 3, 2017. REUTERS/Anton Vaganov 

An injured person walks outside Sennaya Ploshchad metro station, following explosions in two train carriages at metro stations in St. Petersburg, Russia April 3, 2017. REUTERS/Anton Vaganov 

Egyptians light candles as Russia's national colours of white, blue, and red and Russian and Egyptian flags are projected onto one of the Giza pyramids, in tribute to victims of the Russian airliner crash in October, on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt, November 15, 2015. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh 

Russia's national colours of white, blue, and red and Russian and Egypt flags are projected onto one of the Giza pyramids, in tribute to victims of the Russian airliner crash in October, on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt, November 15, 2015. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh 

Flares are seen as Russian Mi-28 military helicopters fly during the opening of the Army-2015 international military forum in Kubinka, outside Moscow, Russia, June 16, 2015. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Buildings damaged by fighting are pictured in the village of Nikishine, south east of Debaltseve February 17, 2015. Pro-Russian rebels and government forces fought street-to-street in a strategic town in east Ukraine on Tuesday and refused to pull back their heavy guns, all but scuppering hopes that a European-brokered peace deal will end months of conflict. Military trucks and tanks came and went in the largely destroyed village of Nikishine as the rebels pounded nearby Debaltseve with rockets, heavy artillery and mortar bombs. REUTERS/Baz Ratner (UKRAINE - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT MILITARY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) 

Jet fighters from the Su-30 SM "Sokoly Rossii" (Falcons of Russia) aerobatic team fly during rehearsals for a show above the Yenisei River in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, October 24, 2014. The show is conducted as part of a recruitment drive for Russia's military divisions, targeting the youth towards contractual military service, according to organizers. REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin (RUSSIA - Tags: MILITARY SOCIETY) 

Yakut, an ex-Russian paratrooper, displays a captured Ukrainian flag at the destroyed airport in Luhansk, eastern Ukraine, September 14, 2014. Surveying a ruined airport in the rebel stronghold of Luhansk, the ex-Russian paratrooper in a trademark blue beret boasts that only "professionals" such as him can turn the tide in the conflict with Kiev in eastern Ukraine. Picture taken September 14, 2014. REUTERS/Marko Djurica (UKRAINE - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST MILITARY CONFLICT) 

Yakut, an ex-Russian paratrooper, stands at the destroyed airport in Luhansk, eastern Ukraine, September 14, 2014. Surveying a ruined airport in the rebel stronghold of Luhansk, the ex-Russian paratrooper in a trademark blue beret boasts that only "professionals" such as him can turn the tide in the conflict with Kiev in eastern Ukraine. Picture September 14, 2014. REUTERS/Marko Djurica (UKRAINE - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST MILITARY CONFLICT) 

Yakut, an ex-Russian paratrooper, stands at the destroyed airport in Luhansk, eastern Ukraine, September 14, 2014. Surveying a ruined airport in the rebel stronghold of Luhansk, the ex-Russian paratrooper in trademark blue beret boasts that only "professionals" such as him can turn the tide in the conflict with Kiev in eastern Ukraine. Picture taken September 14, 2014. REUTERS/Marko Djurica (UKRAINE - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST MILITARY CONFLICT) 

Yakut, an ex-Russian paratrooper, walks at the destroyed airport in Luhansk, eastern Ukraine, September 14, 2014. Surveying a ruined airport in the rebel stronghold of Luhansk, the ex-Russian paratrooper in a trademark blue beret boasts that only "professionals" such as him can turn the tide in the conflict with Kiev in eastern Ukraine. Picture taken September 14, 2014. REUTERS/Marko Djurica (UKRAINE - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST MILITARY CONFLICT) 

Yakut, an ex-Russian paratrooper, displays a captured Ukrainian flag at the destroyed airport in Luhansk, eastern Ukraine, September 14, 2014. Surveying a ruined airport in the rebel stronghold of Luhansk, the ex-Russian paratrooper in a trademark blue beret boasts that only "professionals" such as him can turn the tide in the conflict with Kiev in eastern Ukraine. Picture taken September 14, 2014. REUTERS/Marko Djurica (UKRAINE - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST MILITARY CONFLICT) 

A Ukrainian paratrooper rides on an armoured vehicle near Zhdanivka September 13, 2014. Fighting flared near an airport in eastern Ukraine on Saturday in breach of a fragile eight-day ceasefire as the prime minister accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of planning to destroy his country. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich (UKRAINE - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST MILITARY) 

A Soviet-style star re-touched with blue paint so it resembles the yellow-and-blue national colours of Ukraine, is seen atop the spire of a building in Moscow August 20, 2014. Russian police said on Wednesday they had charged four young people with vandalism after they climbed to the top of a Moscow skyscraper and briefly attached a Ukrainian flag to its spire REUTERS/Maxim Zmeyev (RUSSIA - Tags: CIVIL UNREST CRIME LAW POLITICS) 

A man takes a "selfie" as he stands with a Ukrainian flag on a Soviet-style star re-touched with blue paint so it resembles the yellow-and-blue national colours of Ukraine, atop the spire of a building in Moscow August 20, 2014. Russian police said on Wednesday they had charged four young people with vandalism after they climbed to the top of a Moscow skyscraper and briefly attached a Ukrainian flag to its spire REUTERS/Ilya Varlamov (RUSSIA - Tags: CIVIL UNREST CRIME LAW POLITICS) MANDATORY CREDIT 

A man takes a "selfie" as he stands with a Ukrainian flag on a Soviet-style star re-touched with blue paint so it resembles the yellow-and-blue national colours of Ukraine, atop the spire of a building in Moscow August 20, 2014. Russian police said on Wednesday they had charged four young people with vandalism after they climbed to the top of a Moscow skyscraper and briefly attached a Ukrainian flag to its spire REUTERS/Ilya Varlamov (RUSSIA - Tags: CIVIL UNREST CRIME LAW POLITICS TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) MANDATORY CREDIT 

Members of Ukrainian police special task force "Kiev-1" escort sappers (in blue) tasked with checking buildings in the eastern Ukrainian village of Semenovka, near Sloviansk, July 14, 2014. Ukraine on Monday accused Russian army officers of fighting alongside separatists in the east of the country and said Moscow was once more building up its troops on the joint border. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich (UKRAINE - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST MILITARY CONFLICT) 

Members of the Ukrainian police special task force "Kiev-1" stand guard while sappers (in blue) inspect positions once occupied by pro-Russian separatists in the eastern Ukrainian village of Semenovka, near Sloviansk, July 14, 2014. Ukraine on Monday accused Russian army officers of fighting alongside separatists in the east of the country and said Moscow was once more building up its troops on the joint border. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich (UKRAINE - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST MILITARY) 

A pro-Russian fighter from the "Vostok" (East) battalion guards near a flag of Novorossiya (New Russia) at a checkpoint in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk July 6, 2014. Ukrainian forces routed pro-Russian rebels in a flashpoint area of eastern Ukraine on Saturday and raised the country's blue and yellow flag again over what had for months been the separatist redoubt of Slaviansk. REUTERS/Maxim Zmeyev (UKRAINE - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST MILITARY) 

A pro-Russian fighter from the "Vostok" (East) battalion stands guard at a checkpoint in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk July 6, 2014. Ukrainian forces routed pro-Russian rebels in a flashpoint area of eastern Ukraine on Saturday and raised the country's blue and yellow flag again over what had for months been the separatist redoubt of Slaviansk. REUTERS/Maxim Zmeyev (UKRAINE - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST MILITARY) 

A pro-Russian fighter from the "Vostok" (East) battalion stands guard at a checkpoint in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk July 6, 2014. Ukrainian forces routed pro-Russian rebels in a flashpoint area of eastern Ukraine on Saturday and raised the country's blue and yellow flag again over what had for months been the separatist redoubt of Slaviansk. REUTERS/Maxim Zmeyev (UKRAINE - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST MILITARY) 

The flag of Novorossiya (New Russia) flies at a checkpoint manned by pro-Russian fighters from the "Vostok" (East) battalion in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk July 6, 2014. Ukrainian forces routed pro-Russian rebels in a flashpoint area of eastern Ukraine on Saturday and raised the country's blue and yellow flag again over what had for months been the separatist redoubt of Slaviansk. REUTERS/Maxim Zmeyev (UKRAINE - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST MILITARY) 

A pro-Russian fighter from the "Vostok" (East) battalion stands guard at a checkpoint in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk July 6, 2014. Ukrainian forces routed pro-Russian rebels in a flashpoint area of eastern Ukraine on Saturday and raised the country's blue and yellow flag again over what had for months been the separatist redoubt of Slaviansk. REUTERS/Maxim Zmeyev (UKRAINE - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST MILITARY) 

A pro-Russian fighter from the "Vostok" (East) battalion sits at a checkpoint in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk July 6, 2014. Ukrainian forces routed pro-Russian rebels in a flashpoint area of eastern Ukraine on Saturday and raised the country's blue and yellow flag again over what had for months been the separatist redoubt of Slaviansk. REUTERS/Maxim Zmeyev (UKRAINE - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST MILITARY) 

Pro-Russian fighters from the "Vostok" (East) battalion stand guard at a checkpoint in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk July 6, 2014. Ukrainian forces routed pro-Russian rebels in a flashpoint area of eastern Ukraine on Saturday and raised the country's blue and yellow flag again over what had for months been the separatist redoubt of Slaviansk. REUTERS/Maxim Zmeyev (UKRAINE - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST MILITARY) 

A pro-Russian fighter from the "Vostok" (East) battalion stands guard at a checkpoint in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk July 6, 2014. Ukrainian forces routed pro-Russian rebels in a flashpoint area of eastern Ukraine on Saturday and raised the country's blue and yellow flag again over what had for months been the separatist redoubt of Slaviansk. REUTERS/Maxim Zmeyev (UKRAINE - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST MILITARY) 

A pro-Russian fighter from the "Vostok" (East) battalion stands guard at a checkpoint in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk July 6, 2014. Ukrainian forces routed pro-Russian rebels in a flashpoint area of eastern Ukraine on Saturday and raised the country's blue and yellow flag again over what had for months been the separatist redoubt of Slaviansk. REUTERS/Maxim Zmeyev (UKRAINE - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST MILITARY) 

A pro-Russian fighter from the "Vostok" (East) battalion stands guard at a checkpoint in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk July 6, 2014. Ukrainian forces routed pro-Russian rebels in a flashpoint area of eastern Ukraine on Saturday and raised the country's blue and yellow flag again over what had for months been the separatist redoubt of Slaviansk. REUTERS/Maxim Zmeyev (UKRAINE - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST MILITARY) 

A pro-Russian fighter from the "Vostok" (East) battalion stands guard at a checkpoint in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk July 6, 2014. Ukrainian forces routed pro-Russian rebels in a flashpoint area of eastern Ukraine on Saturday and raised the country's blue and yellow flag again over what had for months been the separatist redoubt of Slaviansk. REUTERS/Maxim Zmeyev (UKRAINE - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST MILITARY) 

Newly-appointed Ukrainian Defence Minister Valery Heletey (C) walks with troops at a temporary base near the city of Slaviansk July 6, 2014. Ukrainian forces routed pro-Russian rebels in a flashpoint area of eastern Ukraine on Saturday and raised the country's blue and yellow flag again over what had for months been the separatist redoubt of Slaviansk. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich (UKRAINE - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST MILITARY) 

Ukrainian soldiers prepare to set up a barbed wire fence at a temporary base near the city of Slaviansk July 6, 2014. Ukrainian forces routed pro-Russian rebels in a flashpoint area of eastern Ukraine on Saturday and raised the country's blue and yellow flag again over what had for months been the separatist redoubt of Slaviansk. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich (UKRAINE - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST MILITARY) 

Ukrainian soldiers set up a barbed wire fence at a temporary base near the city of Slaviansk July 6, 2014. Ukrainian forces routed pro-Russian rebels in a flashpoint area of eastern Ukraine on Saturday and raised the country's blue and yellow flag again over what had for months been the separatist redoubt of Slaviansk. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich (UKRAINE - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST MILITARY) 

Ukrainian soldiers set up a barbed wire fence at a temporary base near the city of Slaviansk July 6, 2014. Ukrainian forces routed pro-Russian rebels in a flashpoint area of eastern Ukraine on Saturday and raised the country's blue and yellow flag again over what had for months been the separatist redoubt of Slaviansk. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich (UKRAINE - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST MILITARY) 

A Ukrainian soldier stands guard at a temporary base near the city of Slaviansk July 6, 2014. Ukrainian forces routed pro-Russian rebels in a flashpoint area of eastern Ukraine on Saturday and raised the country's blue and yellow flag again over what had for months been the separatist redoubt of Slaviansk. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich (UKRAINE - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST MILITARY) 

A Ukrainian soldier stands guard at a temporary base near the city of Slaviansk July 6, 2014. Ukrainian forces routed pro-Russian rebels in a flashpoint area of eastern Ukraine on Saturday and raised the country's blue and yellow flag again over what had for months been the separatist redoubt of Slaviansk. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich (UKRAINE - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST MILITARY) 

Ukrainian soldiers walk on the street in the eastern Ukrainian town of Slaviansk July 5, 2014. Ukrainian forces recaptured a flashpoint area of eastern Ukraine from pro-Russian rebels on Saturday and raised the country's blue and yellow flag again over what had been the separatist redoubt of Slaviansk. REUTERS/Maria Tsvetkova (UKRAINE - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST MILITARY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)