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FILE - Russian President Vladimir Putin appears before the media after the summit of the Collective Security Treaty Organization in Astana, Kazakhstan, on Nov. 28, 2024. (Mikhail Tereshchenko, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

FILE - Russian President Vladimir Putin appears before the media after the summit of the Collective Security Treaty Organization in Astana, Kazakhstan, on Nov. 28, 2024. (Mikhail Tereshchenko, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

FILE - A Ukrainian soldier walks past a building in Sudzha, Kursk region, Russia, on Aug. 16, 2024. This image was approved by the Ukrainian Defense Ministry before publication. (AP Photo, File)

FILE - A Ukrainian soldier walks past a building in Sudzha, Kursk region, Russia, on Aug. 16, 2024. This image was approved by the Ukrainian Defense Ministry before publication. (AP Photo, File)

FILE - People line up in Moscow on Jan. 20, 2024, to sign petitions to support the candidacy of Boris Nadezhdin, a liberal Russian politician seeking to run in the presidential election. (AP Photo, File)

FILE - People line up in Moscow on Jan. 20, 2024, to sign petitions to support the candidacy of Boris Nadezhdin, a liberal Russian politician seeking to run in the presidential election. (AP Photo, File)

FILE - In this photo released by the Russian Emergency Ministry Press Service, rescuers work at Crocus City Hall on the western edge of Moscow, on March 23, 2024, following an attack. (Russian Emergency Ministry Press Service via AP, File)

FILE - In this photo released by the Russian Emergency Ministry Press Service, rescuers work at Crocus City Hall on the western edge of Moscow, on March 23, 2024, following an attack. (Russian Emergency Ministry Press Service via AP, File)

FILE - Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un exchange documents during a signing ceremony of a new partnership in Pyongyang, North Korea, on June 19, 2024. (Kristina Kormilitsyna, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

FILE - Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un exchange documents during a signing ceremony of a new partnership in Pyongyang, North Korea, on June 19, 2024. (Kristina Kormilitsyna, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

FILE - People chant slogans and wave the new Syrian flag as they gather for Friday prayers at the Umayyad mosque in Damascus, Syria, on Dec. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa, File)

FILE - People chant slogans and wave the new Syrian flag as they gather for Friday prayers at the Umayyad mosque in Damascus, Syria, on Dec. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa, File)

FILE - Journalists at a center for forensic analysis in an undisclosed location in Ukraine on Nov. 24, 2024, film fragments of what authorities in Kyiv described as a Russian hypersonic missile that struck a factory in Dnipro, Ukraine. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)

FILE - Journalists at a center for forensic analysis in an undisclosed location in Ukraine on Nov. 24, 2024, film fragments of what authorities in Kyiv described as a Russian hypersonic missile that struck a factory in Dnipro, Ukraine. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)

FILE - Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich listens to the verdict against him in a glass cage in a courtroom in Yekaterinburg, Russia, on July 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky, File)

FILE - Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich listens to the verdict against him in a glass cage in a courtroom in Yekaterinburg, Russia, on July 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky, File)

FILE - A TV screen at Seoul Railway Station in South Korea, on Oct. 21, 2024, shows an image of soldiers believed to be from North Korea standing in line to receive supplies from Russia. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)

FILE - A TV screen at Seoul Railway Station in South Korea, on Oct. 21, 2024, shows an image of soldiers believed to be from North Korea standing in line to receive supplies from Russia. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)

FILE - A woman lays flowers at the grave of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny at the Borisovskoye Cemetery in Moscow, on March 2, 2024. (AP Photo, File)

FILE - A woman lays flowers at the grave of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny at the Borisovskoye Cemetery in Moscow, on March 2, 2024. (AP Photo, File)

FILE - Mongolian President Khurelsukh Ukhnaa, left, walks with Russian President Vladimir Putin during a welcome ceremony in Sukhbaatar Square in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, on Sept. 3, 2024. (Sofya Sandurskaya, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

FILE - Mongolian President Khurelsukh Ukhnaa, left, walks with Russian President Vladimir Putin during a welcome ceremony in Sukhbaatar Square in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, on Sept. 3, 2024. (Sofya Sandurskaya, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)