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This photograph shows a Dassault Rafale aircraft parked on the tarmac of the French Air and Space Force Luxeuil-Saint-Sauveur Airbase in Saint-Sauveur, France, on March 18, 2025. (Ludovic Marin/AFP via Getty Images)
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Ukrainian soldiers of a tank unit continue their military mobility to prepare for combat as the Russia-Ukraine War continues after the second year anniversary in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, on March 1, 2024. (Jose Colon via Getty Images)
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Ukrainian servicemen of the Skala battalion perform a medical evacuation during a field military exercise in the Donetsk region on February 3, 2024. (Photo by Genya Savilov/AFP via Getty Images)
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People walk past a Kremlin Star, bearing a Z letter, an insignia of Russian troops in Ukraine, in front of the Monument dedicated to Heroes of the WWI, in western Moscow. (Alexander Nemenov via Getty Images)
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In this aerial view water vapor and exhaust rise from the steel mill of Salzgitter AG, one of Europe's largest steel producers, as residential buildings stand nearby on November 22, 2023, in Salzgitter, Germany. (Sean Gallup via Getty Images)
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Ukrainian soldiers fire the L119 artillery in the direction of Marinka, Ukraine, on February 23, 2024. (Photo by Diego Herrera Carcedo/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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During a working trip to Kharkiv region, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited the frontline command post of the defenders of Kupyansk and presented state awards. (Office of the President of Ukraine via Flickr)
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Taliban security personnel stand guard as a burqa-clad woman walks along a street at a market in the Baharak district of Badakhshan province. (Wakil Kohsar/AFP via Getty Images)
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Russia's President Vladimir Putin visiting the Rocket and Space Corporation (RSC) Energia in Korolyov, outside Moscow, on October 26, 2023. (Gavriil Grigorov/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
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A school director inspects a classroom damaged as a result of a Russian missile attack in Lviv, Ukraine, on February 15, 2024. (Yuriy Dyachyn/AFP via Getty Images)
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Experts
Can Kasapoğlu
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
Daniel Kochis
Senior Fellow, Center on Europe and Eurasia
Liselotte Odgaard
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
James J. Przystup
Senior Fellow, Japan Chair
Peter Rough
Senior Fellow and Director, Center on Europe and Eurasia
Nate Sibley
Fellow and Director, Kleptocracy Initiative
Kenneth R. Weinstein
Japan Chair
Richard Weitz
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Political-Military Analysis
