FILE - Yabloko party leader Nikolai Rybakov stands at a hearing to bar his party from the parliamentary election at Russia's Supreme Court in Moscow, Monday, Aug. 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Pavel Bednyakov, File)

FILE - Russian Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov, center, speaks to journalists after laying flowers at the mausoleum of USSR founder Vladimir Lenin in Red Square, in Moscow, marking the 156th anniversary of his birth on Wednesday, April 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Pavel Bednyakov, File)

FILE - A plume of black smoke is seen over St. Petersburg, Russia, Wednesday, June 3, 2026, after a Ukrainian drone attack. (AP Photo, File)

FILE - Russian President Vladimir Putin, foreground left, meets with United Russia party leaders, from left, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin; Putin; Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, background second right, Presidential Commissioner for Children's Rights Maria Lvova-Belova, center; war correspondent and Hero of Russia Yevgeny Poddubny, second right; and Chief of the Yunarmiya main headquarters Vladislav Golovin, in Moscow, on Saturday, Sept. 5, 2026. (Gavriil Grigorov/Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

Precinct election commission members set up a polling station for the upcoming parliamentary elections in Moscow, on Thursday, Sept. 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Pavel Bednyakov)

A police officer inspects a commercial facility damaged in a Russian drone attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Andrii Marienko)

In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, an emergency services personnel works to extinguish a fire following a Russian air attack in Odesa, Ukraine, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2026. (Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP)

A woman bandages a man after a Russian missile strike in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Dan Bashakov)