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A woman walks by the statue of Italian poet and philosopher Dante Alighieri covered in worn out sandbags, placed around it at the beginning of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, to protect it from potential damage from air raids, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, March 31, 2024. The statue, by sculptor Luciano Massari, was inaugurated in 2015 to mark 750 years since Dante's birth. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)