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A neighbor supports Yaroslav Bazylevych, right, who lost his family in a Russian missile attack, as Bazylevych looks at his ruined house in the western city of Lviv, Ukraine, Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024. His wife, Yevgenia, and their three daughters - Darina, 18, Emilia, 7, and Yaryna, 21 - all died when a Russian missile hit their home. (AP Photo/Mykola Tys)

In Ukraine, a city grieves for a family killed in a deadly Russia missile attack

By Lyuba Sorokina and Derek Gatopoulos - Associated Press

Ukrainian soldiers carry shells to fire at Russian positions on the front line, near the city of Bakhmut, in Ukraine's Donetsk region, on March 25, 2024. Russia has made incremental but steady advances in Donetsk, and Putin has declared that Moscow isn’t seeking quick gains and would stick to the current strategy of advancing slowly. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky) **FILE**

Soldiers won’t let Russia’s war spoil dreams of fatherhood; IVF doctor fights for rebirth of nation

By Guillaume Ptak - Special to The Washington Times

Dr. Natalia Komashko, second right, performs reconstructive surgery on the nose of Leonid Prokopovych, a 50-year-old Ukrainian serviceman, in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine, Friday, July 21, 2023. The cosmetic surgeries are crucial to allowing the soldiers to feel comfortable in society. Ukraine is facing the prospect of a future with upwards of 20,000 amputees, many of them soldiers who are also suffering psychological trauma from their time at the front. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Upward of 20,000 Ukrainian amputees face trauma on a scale unseen since WWI

By Evgeniy Maloletka - Associated Press

Emergency service workers gather outside damaged buildings as search for victims continues following a Russian missile attack in Lviv, Ukraine, Thursday, July 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Mykola Tys)

Russian cruise missile attack on Ukraine city of Lviv kills 4 people and wounds more

By Mstyslav Chernov - Associated Press

Children dance at the recovery camp for children and their mothers affected by the war near Lviv, Ukraine, Wednesday, May 3, 2023. A generation of Ukrainian children have seen their lives upended by Russia's invasion of their country. Hundreds of kids have been killed. For the survivors, the wide-ranging trauma is certain to leave psychological scars that will follow them into adolescence and adulthood. UNICEF says an estimated 1.5 million Ukrainian children are at risk of mental health issues. (AP Photo/Hanna Arhirova)

Scarred by war, Ukrainian children carry on after losing parents, homes and innocence

By Hanna Arhirova - Associated Press

This photo mad available by Ukrainian doctor Oleh Duda shows the moment when lights at a hospital went out as he was performing complicated, dangerous surgery on a bleeding patient at the hospital in western city of Lviv, Ukraine, Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2022. Russia's devastating strikes on Ukraine's power grid have strained and disrupted the country’s health care system, already battered by years of corruption, mismanagement, the COVID-19 pandemic and nine months of war. (Oleh Duda via AP)

Surgeons work by flashlight as Ukraine power grid battered

By Yuras Karmanau, Sam Mednick and Dasha Litvinova - Associated Press

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, center, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, left, and United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres shake hands after their meeting in Lviv, Ukraine, Thursday, Aug. 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

High-level talks in Ukraine yield little reported progress

By Derek Catopoulos and Suzan Fraser - Associated Press

White to play and draw -- Mikhail Zinar (1983).

A timely tribute to the glories of Ukrainian chess

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

Rubble from the damaged Donetsk Academic Regional Drama Theatre sits after the March 16, 2022, bombing in Mariupol, Ukraine, in an area now controlled by Russian-backed separatist forces, on Monday, April 4, 2022. The bombing of the theater, which was used as a shelter, stands out as the single deadliest known attack against civilians to date in the Ukraine war. (AP Photo/Alexei Alexandrov, File)

AP evidence points to 600 dead in Mariupol theater airstrike

By Lori Hinnant, Mstyslav Chernov and Vasilisa Stephanenko - Associated Press

Oleksiy Onoschenko, 42, rescues books from his house destroyed during the Russian occupation in Irpin, in the outskirt of Kyiv, Ukraine on Saturday, April 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Live updates l Commander glad for steel mill evacuations

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin speak with reporters Monday, April 25, 2022, in Poland, near the Ukraine border, after returning from their trip to Kyiv, Ukraine, and meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, Pool)

Live updates | Russia-Ukraine War

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

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. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Russian missiles pound cities across Ukraine ahead of anticipated eastern offensive

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Firefighters work to extinguish fire at an apartments building after a Russian attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Sunday, April 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Marienko)

Live Updates | Russians fight in streets of Ukrainian town

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

A journalist walks amid the destruction after a Russian attack in Byshiv, in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, March 27, 2022. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused the West of lacking courage as his country fights to stave off Russia's invading troops, making an exasperated plea for fighter jets and tanks to sustain a defense in a conflict that has ground into a war of attrition. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Ukrainian President Zelenskyy says he seeks peace ‘without delay’ in talks

By Yuras Karmanau - Associated Press

Smoke rises out of an apartments building damaged by shelling in Chernihiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 3, 2022. The northern Ukrainian city of Chernihiv has been holding out against Russian forces since the early days of the invasion. But the city located not far from the border with Belarus on the road to Ukraine's capital of Kyiv is surrounded, and the suffering of residents who haven't been able to flee is mounting. (AP Photo/Olga Korotkova)

Zelenskyy: West needs more courage in helping Ukraine fight

By Yuras Karmanau - Associated Press

A burned Ukranian army vehicle stands on a street leading to the airport of the city of Mykolaiv, Ukraine, Friday, 25, 2022.(AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Live updates: Man detained at site of Lviv rocket attacks

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Smoke rises the air in Lviv, western Ukraine, Saturday, March 26, 2022. With Russia continuing to strike and encircle urban populations, from Chernihiv and Kharkiv in the north to Mariupol in the south, Ukrainian authorities said Saturday that they cannot trust statements from the Russian military Friday suggesting that the Kremlin planned to concentrate its remaining strength on wresting the entirety of Ukraine's eastern Donbas region from Ukrainian control. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

Russian rocket attacks hit Ukraine’s western haven near Polish border ahead of Biden speech

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Anti- tank barricades are placed on a street as preparation for a possible Russian offensive, in Odesa, Ukraine, Thursday March 24, 2022.(AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Live updates: New phase of Ukraine war? Russia shifts focus

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Families arrive at Kyiv's train station after leaving their homes in Chernihiv, Ukraine, through a humanitarian corridor, Monday, March 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Live updates: Russia to expel more American diplomats

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Ukrainian serviceman has a rest on his position in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Marienko)

Ukraine says Russia seized relief workers in Mariupol convoy

By Nebi Qena and Cara Anna - Associated Press