EditorialRussian President Vladimir Putin attends the opening ceremony for the northern section of the Moscow High-Speed Diameter, Russia, Russian Federation - 08 Sep 2023
EditorialAnna Vasilivana Rudenko, 69, is evacuated from her apartment in Toretsk, in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine, by volunteers from Vostok SOS on Tuesday, June 6, 2023. (Tyler Hicks/The New York Times)
EditorialVolunteers with the organization Vostok-SOS carry Zinaida Riabtseva, who is 77 and blind, down five flights of stairs as she is evacuated from the front-line city of Bakhmut, Ukraine, on May 30, 2022. (Ivor Prickett/The New York Times)
EditorialVolunteers with the organization Vostok-SOS carry Zinaida Riabtseva, who is 77 and blind, down five flights of stairs as she is evacuated from the front-line city of Bakhmut, Ukraine, on May 30, 2022. (Ivor Prickett/The New York Times)
EditorialVolunteers with the organization Vostok-SOS carry Zinaida Riabtseva, who is 77 and blind, down five flights of stairs as she is evacuated from the front-line city of Bakhmut, Ukraine, on May 30, 2022. (Ivor Prickett/The New York Times)
EditorialVolunteers with the organization Vostok-SOS carry Zinaida Riabtseva, who is 77 and blind, down five flights of stairs as she is evacuated from the front-line city of Bakhmut, Ukraine, on May 30, 2022. (Ivor Prickett/The New York Times)
EditorialVolunteers with the organization Vostok-SOS carry Zinaida Riabtseva, who is 77 and blind, down five flights of stairs as she is evacuated from the front-line city of Bakhmut, Ukraine, on May 30, 2022. (Ivor Prickett/The New York Times)
EditorialVolunteers with the organization Vostok-SOS carry Zinaida Riabtseva, who is 77 and blind, down five flights of stairs as she is evacuated from the front-line city of Bakhmut, Ukraine, on May 30, 2022. (Ivor Prickett/The New York Times)
EditorialVolunteers with the organization Vostok-SOS carry Zinaida Riabtseva, 77, down five flights of stairs as she is evacuated from the front-line city of Bakhmut, Ukraine, on May 30, 2022. (Ivor Prickett/The New York Times)
EditorialVolunteers with the Ukrainian organization Vostok-SOS carried Oleg Nagel from his home, in Kherson, Ukraine on Thursday, Feb. 2, 2023. (Ivor Prickett/The New York Times)
EditorialVolunteers with the Ukrainian organization Vostok-SOS prepare to evacuate Alla Zhytchenko from her home in Kherson, Ukraine on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2023. (Ivor Prickett/The New York Times)
EditorialVolunteers from Britain and Ukraine working with the organization Vostok-SOS carry Zinaida Riabtseva, who is 77, blind and struggled to walk down five flights of stairs, during an evacuation in Bakhmut, Ukraine, on May 30, 2022. (Ivor Prickett/The New York Times)
EditorialVolunteers from Britain and Ukraine working with the organization Vostok-SOS carry Zinaida Riabtseva, who is 77, blind and struggled to walk down five flights of stairs, during an evacuation in Bakhmut, Ukraine, on May 30, 2022. (Ivor Prickett/The New York Times)
EditorialVolunteers from Britain and Ukraine working with the organization Vostok-SOS carry Zinaida Riabtseva, who is 77, blind and struggled to walk down five flights of stairs, during an evacuation in Bakhmut, Ukraine, on May 30, 2022. (Ivor Prickett/The New York Times)
EditorialMembers of the Vostok Battalion train in the use of surface-to-air missiles at the Donetsk Botanical Garden in Donetsk, Ukraine, June 1, 2014. (Sergey Ponomarev for The New York Times)