President Joe Biden poses for a photo with Vice President Kamala Harris, left, Karin Olofsdotter, Sweden's ambassador to the US, second from left, and Mikko Hautala, Finland's ambassador to the US, right, after signing the Instruments of Ratification for the Accession Protocols to the North Atlantic Treaty for the Republic of Finland and Kingdom of Sweden in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, August 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Rising smoke can be seen from the beach at Saky after explosions were heard from the direction of a Russian military airbase near Novofedorivka, Crimea, Tuesday August 9, 2022. (UGC via AP)
Russia for decades leased the naval port of Sevastopol, home of its Black Sea Fleet, from Kyiv, but annexed the entire peninsula from Ukraine in 2014. (Representational image)