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FILE - A 25-year-old volunteer fighter identified only as Dima, who is from the U.S. state of Texas and serves with the 23rd rifle battalion of Ukraine’s armed forces, holds a U.S. flag near the front line in the Kharkiv region of Ukraine, on Oct. 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)

FILE - A 25-year-old volunteer fighter identified only as Dima, who is from the U.S. state of Texas and serves with the 23rd rifle battalion of Ukraine’s armed forces, holds a U.S. flag near the front line in the Kharkiv region of Ukraine, on Oct. 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)

FILE - First-graders hold balloons on the first day of school in Zaporizhzhia, about 40 kilometers to the front line, Ukraine, on Sept. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)

FILE - First-graders hold balloons on the first day of school in Zaporizhzhia, about 40 kilometers to the front line, Ukraine, on Sept. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)

FILE - NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, left, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, speak to journalists during a news conference in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Oct. 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)

FILE - NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, left, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, speak to journalists during a news conference in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Oct. 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)

FILE – A serviceman identified only as Oleh of the 148th artillery brigade of Ukraine’s air assault forces prepares 155mm artillery shells before firing them toward Russian positions at the front line in Donetsk region of Ukraine, on Aug. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)

FILE – A serviceman identified only as Oleh of the 148th artillery brigade of Ukraine’s air assault forces prepares 155mm artillery shells before firing them toward Russian positions at the front line in Donetsk region of Ukraine, on Aug. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)

FILE - Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump, right, and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy shake hands during their meeting at Trump Tower, on Sept. 27, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File)

FILE - Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump, right, and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy shake hands during their meeting at Trump Tower, on Sept. 27, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File)

FILE – A Ukrainian serviceman of 56th brigade fires artillery toward Russian positions at the front line near Chasiv Yar in the Donetsk region of Ukraine, on Sept. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)

FILE – A Ukrainian serviceman of 56th brigade fires artillery toward Russian positions at the front line near Chasiv Yar in the Donetsk region of Ukraine, on Sept. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)

FILE - A building burns after a Russian strike in Mykolaiv, Ukraine, on Oct. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Marko Ivkov, File)

FILE - A building burns after a Russian strike in Mykolaiv, Ukraine, on Oct. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Marko Ivkov, File)

FILE - Vice President Kamala Harris, right, and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, shake hands during their meeting on Sept. 26, 2024, in the vice president's ceremonial office inside the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

FILE - Vice President Kamala Harris, right, and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, shake hands during their meeting on Sept. 26, 2024, in the vice president's ceremonial office inside the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)