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The Ukrainian flag and the Motherland Monument in Kyiv on August 23, 2025. (Getty Images)

Organization of Turkic States Secretary General Ambassador Kubanychbek Omuraliev attends a meeting in Baku, Azerbaijan, on June 19, 2025. (Getty Images)

A view of NUSRET-2025 Invitation Military Drill held at the Gulf of Saros in Canakkale, Turkiye, on October 30, 2025. (Getty Images)

A US tank staged during the Iron Spear Tank Competition in Adazi, Latvia, on November 19, 2025. (US Army)

US President Donald Trump speaks during a roundtable discussion in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on December 10, 2025. (Getty Images)

People tour the Registan cultural site in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, on April 3, 2025 (Getty Images)

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on December 2, 2025, in Dublin, Ireland. (Getty Images)

The nuclear icebreaker Yakutiya sails by Kanonersky Island during sea trials near St. Petersburg on January 3, 2025. (Getty Images)

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Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic, Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic, and Croatian President Franjo Tudjman initialize the Balkan Proximity Peace Talks Agreement on November 21, 1995, at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio. (Getty Images)

The Azerbaijan flag flies on top of Shirvanshahs’ Palace on September 20, 2025, in Baku, Azerbaijan. (Getty Images)