Bucket-wheel excavators mine rare earth materials on Ukrainian soil on February 25, 2025, in the Zhytomyr region of Ukraine. (Kostiantyn Liberov via Getty Images)
The guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald fires the first Naval Strike Missile from a US destroyer on July 18, 2024, in the Pacific Ocean. (US Navy photo)
Fast-attack submarine USS North Carolina (SSN 777) enters Dry Dock 1 at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility, Hawaii, on September 4, 2024. (US Navy photo by Justice Vannatta)
A South Korean Army K1E1 tank crosses a pontoon bridge on the Imjin River during a joint river- crossing exercise as part of the Freedom Shield military drills with US and ROK forces in the border town of Yeoncheon, South Korea, on March 20, 2025. (Getty Images)
A Ukrainian law enforcement officer inspects the remains of a missile in front of a destroyed perfume and cosmetics manufacturing building following an attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on April 18, 2025. (Getty Images)
A serviceman of Security Service of Ukraine escorts Chinese prisoner of war in Kyiv on April 14, 2025, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Genya Savilov/AFP via Getty Images)
A batch of fiber-optic drones are seen before being handed over to the Ukrainian armed forces in Kyiv, Ukraine, on April 1, 2025. (Mykhaylo Palinchak via Getty Images)
The flags of the United States, Saudi Arabia, and Ukraine are seen prior to talks on March 11, 2025, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. (Salah Malkawi via Getty Images)
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy attend a joint press conference at the Vahdettin Mansion on July 8, 2023, in Istanbul, Turkey. (Ozan Guzelce via Getty Images)
A view of a destroyed hospital building after a Russian drone attack on March 19, 2025, in Krasnopillia, Sumy Oblast, Ukraine. (Pavlo Zarva/Kordon.Media/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)