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Municipal workers finish covering a statue of Italian poet and philosopher Dante Alighieri with sandbags to protect it from potential damage from shelling, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 23. The statue, by sculptor Luciano Massari, was inaugurated in 2015 to mark 750 years since Dante's birth.ASSOCIATED PRESS
A sticker with the image known as "Saint Javelin" depicting a saint holding a Javelin, an American-made portable anti-tank missile system, is displayed in an artists co-living studio space that is used as a bomb shelter and a place to help the Territorial Defense Units, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 23.ASSOCIATED PRESS
A Ukrainian firefighter sprays water inside a house destroyed by shelling, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 23. The Kyiv city administration says Russian forces shelled the Ukrainian capital overnight and early Wednesday morning, in the districts of Sviatoshynskyi and Shevchenkivskyi, damaging buildings.ASSOCIATED PRESS
A Ukrainian firefighter tries to extinguish a fire inside a house destroyed by shelling in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 23.ASSOCIATED PRESS
A Ukrainian firefighter takes a break from extinguishing a fire inside a house destroyed by shelling in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 23.ASSOCIATED PRESS
Neighbors carry pieces of broken window from apartments damaged by shelling, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 23.ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko, right, stands next to his brother, former heavyweight boxing world champion Wladimir Klitschko, during a press conference, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 23. From a public park in the city, Mayor Klitschko said 264 civilians had so far died from Russian bombardment on the capital, including four children.ASSOCIATED PRESS
A woman sits on a bench and a Ukrainian serviceman guards the area during a press conference by Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko and his brother, former heavyweight boxing world champion Wladimir Klitschko, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 23.ASSOCIATED PRESS
A Ukrainian serviceman guards the area as Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko, right, speaks during a press conference next to his brother, former heavyweight boxing world champion Wladimir Klitschko, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 23.ASSOCIATED PRESS
Men work on the construction of plates for bulletproof vests in an artists co-living studio space that is used as a bomb shelter and a place to help the Territorial Defense Units, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 23.ASSOCIATED PRESS
New bulletproof vests are displayed in an artists co-living studio space that is used as a bomb shelter and a place to help the Territorial Defense Units, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 23.ASSOCIATED PRESS
Anton Felemeniuk, left, and Seri Kuraksin take a break from making bulletproof vests in an artists co-living studio space that is used as a bomb shelter and a place to help the Territorial Defense Units, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 23.ASSOCIATED PRESS
Muralist Arti exercises inside an artists' co-living studio space that is used as a bomb shelter and a place to help the Territorial Defense Units, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 23.ASSOCIATED PRESS
Ukrainians check rifles in a gun shop in Lviv, western Ukraine, Wednesday, March 23. The rush for guns and gun training continued in the western city of Lviv. The state of war has streamlined gun purchasing in Ukraine, now simplified.ASSOCIATED PRESS
The tail of a rocket sticks out in a memorial for the thousands of Polish officers killed in 1940 by Soviet secret police in the Katyn massacre, in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 23.ASSOCIATED PRESS
People embark a train in Odesa, southern Ukraine, on Wednesday, March 23. The United Nations says more than 3.5 million people — mainly women and children — have fled Ukraine in the four weeks since Russian tanks rolled across the border and Moscow began bombarding towns and cities.ASSOCIATED PRESS
A woman reacts while a train leaves from the train station in Odesa, southern Ukraine, on Wednesday, March 23.ASSOCIATED PRESS
A Ukrainian woman sits on a bed at an exhibition hall, turned into a refugee center in Nadarzyn, near Warsaw, Poland, on Wednesday, March 23.ASSOCIATED PRESS
A Catholic nun helping as a volunteer, carries a boy from Ukraine at a railway station in Przemysl, southeastern Poland, on Wednesday, March 23. Poland has received more than 2 million Ukrainian refugees since the Feb. 24 invasion.ASSOCIATED PRESS
A serviceman carries the photo of Capt. Andrei Paliy, a deputy commander of Russia's Black Sea Fleet, during a farewell ceremony in Sevastopol, Crimea, Wednesday, March 23. Paliy was killed in action during fighting with Ukrainian forces in the Sea of Azov port of Mariupol.ASSOCIATED PRESS
U.S. President Joe Biden steps off Air Force One as he arrives at Melsbroek military airport in Brussels, Wednesday, March 23. Western leaders are arriving in Brussels for Thursday's summits taking place at NATO and EU headquarters where they will seek to highlight their sense of unity in the face of the Russian invasion in Ukraine.POOL PHOTO VIA AP
Members of Japan's lower house parliament applaud as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy delivering a virtual address to Japanese lawmakers in Tokyo, Wednesday, March 23.