sshd service is unable to start

Issue

• sshd.service is failing with the following error:

[root@example]# systemctl status sshd.service -l
● sshd.service - OpenSSH server daemon
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/sshd.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: activating (auto-restart) (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2023-05-08 05:23:19 EDT; 11s ago
     Docs: man:sshd(8)
           man:sshd_config(5)
  Process: 74696 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/sshd -D $OPTIONS $CRYPTO_POLICY (code=exited, status=255)
 Main PID: 74696 (code=exited, status=255)

May 08 05:23:19 example systemd[1]: sshd.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=255/n/a
May 08 05:23:19 example systemd[1]: sshd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
May 08 05:23:19 example systemd[1]: Failed to start OpenSSH server daemon.