1/7A Pro-Russian rebel stands in a tent riddled with holes caused by shrapnel at the Novoazovsk border crossing point, in eastern Ukraine, Aug. 29, 2014.
2/7Snow plows and traffic make their way north along Interstate 95 as snow begins to fall in Ashland, Virginia, Jan. 22, 2016. Portions of Virginia are under a blizzard warning.
3/7A man walks through heavy snow in downtown Nashville, Tennessee. Much of downtown was deserted as state and city government offices were closed for the day. A major winter storm is hitting much of the Eastern part of the U.S. and also affecting the Midwest and South.
4/7A foreign military attache inspects a multiple rocket launcher from pro-Russian separatists in the eastern region of Ukraine, Aug. 29, 2014.
5/7Ukrainian Ambassador to NATO, Ihor Dolhov, holds a news conference after an emergency NATO-Ukraine meeting at the Alliance headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, Aug. 29, 2014.
6/7President Vladimir Putin called on pro-Russian separatists to release Ukrainian soldiers who have been surrounded by the rebels in eastern Ukraine, Aug. 29, 2014. In this photo, President Putin arrives at a meeting with participants in the youth educational forum at the Seliger youth camp near Lake Seliger, some 450 kilometres northwest of Moscow, in Tver region, Russia, Aug. 29, 2014.
7/7Russian stock indexes and the ruble plunged on Thursday, August 28, 2014 as Ukraine accused Russia of sending its army to support separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine, increasing the likelihod of new western sanctions against Russia.
