People pray and lay flowers at a monument to soldiers killed in Afghanistan in the 1979-1989 war, to mark the anniversary of the withdrawal of Soviet troops from the country, in the Ukrainian capital Kiev, Thursday, Feb. 15, 2018. The last detachment of the Soviet army left Afghanistan Feb. 15, 1989 after waging a 10-year war in a failed attempt to impose Soviet rule in the country. Some 3,360 Ukrainian soldiers were killed in the war. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)