Satellite images show a Russian military convoy north of Kyiv. Maxar hide caption
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Facebook's parent company Meta said in a statement that it had received requests from a number of governments and the European Union "to take further steps in relation to Russian state controlled media." Jenny Kane/AP file photo hide caption
Black smoke rises from a military airport in Chuhuiv, near Kharkiv, Ukraine, on Thursday. Humanitarian organizations say Russian forces are using cluster munitions in their bombing and shelling of Ukraine. Aris Messinis/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Karim A.A. Khan, the International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor, speaks during a news conference last August. The prosecutor has put combatants and their commanders on notice that he is monitoring Russia's invasion of Ukraine and has jurisdiction to prosecute war crimes and crimes against humanity. Marwan Ali/AP hide caption
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen greets Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the Eastern Partnership summit in Brussels last year. Zelenskyy is appealing for Ukraine to join the EU. Stephanie Lecocq/Pool/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Conductor Semyon Bychkov, conducting the Vienna Philharmonic in a performance in Vienna in 2017. Joe Klamar/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting on economic issues at the Kremlin on Monday as the ruble fell and Russia's central bank raised its key interest rate to a historic high. Alexey Nikolsky/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Left: The Putin Pub in Jerusalem, before the owners removed the word Putin from the sign. Right: On Feb. 24, the first day of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the Russian-speaking owners of the Putin Pub removed "Putin" from the sign. Leon Teterin and Daniel Estrin/NPR hide caption
After Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Jerusalem's Putin Pub is now just named Pub
People attend the Beijing 2022 Paralympic Winter Games 100 Day countdown event at the National Aquatic Center in Beijing, China, on Nov. 24, 2021. Wang Zhao/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
China is a Paralympics star, but its people with disabilities face high hurdles
African residents in Ukraine wait at the platform inside the Lviv railway station on Sunday in Lviv in western Ukraine. Bernat Armangue/AP hide caption
President Biden addresses a joint session of Congress on April 28, 2021, as Vice President Harris (left) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi applaud. Melina Mara/AP hide caption
Russian Standard vodka, pictured here at a 2013 after party for the Los Angeles premiere of the film Blue Jasmine, is Russian-owned. A handful of governors have moved to ban the brand from liquor store shelves in their states. Todd Williamson/Invision for Sony Classics/AP hide caption
This satellite image taken by Himawari-8, a Japanese weather satellite, and released by the agency, shows an undersea volcano eruption at the Pacific nation of Tonga Saturday, Jan. 15, 2022. AP hide caption
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Star Russian soprano Anna Netrekbo singing in Metz, France in February 2020. Christoph de Barry/AFP via Getty Images hide caption