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President Joe Biden delivers a speech about the Russian invasion of Ukraine, at the Royal Castle, Saturday, March 26, 2022, in Warsaw. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden not getting much allied back-up in call for Putin’s ouster

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

Firefighters work at the site in the aftermath of the first strike that involved Russian rockets that hit an oil facility in an industrial area in the northeastern outskirts of Lviv, Ukraine, Sunday, March 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

Live updates: Support for Ukraine shown at Oscars

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

A cloud of smoke raises after an explosion in Lviv, Western Ukraine, Friday, March 18, 2022. The mayor of Lviv says missiles struck near the city's airport early Friday. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Russians lose morale, offensive stuck in neutral as invasion entered its fourth week

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks during a news conference Thursday, March 17, 2022, at the State Department in Washington. (Saul Loeb/Pool via AP)

Blinken says U.S. officials documenting evidence for possible Russian war crimes

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, and Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas pose for photographers on the occasion of their meeting, in Tallinn, Estonia, on Tuesday, March 8, 2022. Blinken was meeting with senior Estonian officials in Tallinn on Tuesday, a day after hearing appeals from both Lithuania and Latvia for more support and greater U.S. and NATO troop presence to deter a feared Russian intervention. (AP Photo/Raul Mee)

Blinken wraps up Baltic assurance tour as Ukraine war rages

By Matthew Lee - Associated Press

File - A national flag of Iran waves in front of the building of the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, in Vienna, Austria, Friday, Dec. 17, 2021. The United Nations’ atomic watchdog says it believes that Iran has further increased its stockpile of highly enriched uranium in breach of a 2015 accord with world powers. The International Atomic Energy Agency told member nations in its confidential quarterly report Thursday that Iran has an estimated stock of 33.2 kilograms (73.1 pounds) of uranium enriched to up to 60% fissile purity, an increase of 15.5 kilograms since November. (AP Photo/Michael Gruber, File)

Blinken says U.S. sanctions against Russia have nothing to do with negotiations on Iran deal

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, and Poland's Foreign Minister Zbiegniew Rau participate in a media conference in Rzeszow, Poland, Saturday, March 5, 2022. (Olivier Douliery, Pool Photo via AP)

Blinken visits Poland as Russia’s war in Ukraine intensifies

By Matthew Lee - Associated Press

Chinese President Xi Jinping waves during the closing ceremony of the 2022 Winter Olympics on Feb. 20, 2022, in Beijing. The just-concluded Winter Olympics werent China's big event of the year, internally, at least. For the Communist Party, that comes this fall at a major meeting that will likely cement Xi Jinping's position as one of the nation's most powerful leaders in its seven decades of Communist rule. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

China shared U.S. intelligence on Ukraine crisis with Russia

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

A Ukrainian National guard soldier guards the mobile checkpoint together with the Ukrainian Security Service agents and police officers during a joint operation in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022. Fears of a new war in Europe have resurged as U.S. President Joe Biden warned that Russia could invade Ukraine within days, and violence spiked in a long-running standoff in eastern Ukraine that some fear could be the spark for wider conflict. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Ukrainian rebels evacuate civilians to Russia amid crisis

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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken addresses the United Nations Security Council, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Blinken defends U.S. info blitz predicting Russian military action

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden speaks the about the long-delayed cleanup of Great Lakes harbors and tributaries polluted with industrial toxins at the Shipyards, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022, in Lorain, Ohio. Cleanup will accelerate dramatically with a $1 billion boost from Biden's infrastructure plan. (AP Photo/Ken Blaze)

‘Very high’ chance of invasion soon, Biden says

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

A Ukrainian serviceman carries an NLAW anti-tank weapon during an exercise in the Joint Forces Operation, in the Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Feb. 15, 2022. As the U.S. and other NATO members warn of the potential for a devastating war, Russia is not countering with bombs or olive branches -- but with sarcasm. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File) **FILE**

U.S. says there is no proof of Russian troop pullback as Ukraine crisis drags on

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures while speaking to the media during a joint news conference with Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban following their talks in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2022. Putin says the U.S. and its allies have ignored Russia's top security demands. In his first comments on the standoff with the West over Ukraine in more than a month, Putin said Tuesday that the Kremlin is still studying the U.S. and NATO's response to the Russian security demands received last week. (Yuri Kochetkov/Pool Photo via AP)

Peeved Putin complains West ‘ignored’ demands as Blinken, Lavrov confer

By Ben Wolfgang and David R. Sands - The Washington Times

Local residents past by a sign which reads &quot;Forever follow the Communist Party&quot; at Houheilong Miao, a village in Yanqing on the outskirts of Beijing, China, Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2022. The village has a view of the Olympics skiing venue in the distance. Its 20 mostly vacant traditional courtyard houses have been turned into lodgings and a cafe dubbed the &quot;Winter Olympic Home.&quot; (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Lawmakers warn of danger for Olympic athletes, call on Blinken to brief Beijing-bound U.S. team

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

A man wearing a hat baring an American flag and face mask to help protect from the coronavirus walks by a masked security guard near lanterns decoration on the remnants of a city wall in Beijing, Thursday, Jan. 27, 2022. China is demanding the U.S. end “interference” in the Beijing Winter Olympics, which begin next month, in an apparent reference to a diplomatic boycott imposed by Washington and its allies. The Foreign Ministry said Minister Wang Yi made the demand in a phone call with U.S Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday Beijing time. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

China demands U.S. halt Olympics ‘interference’

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Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks about Russia and Ukraine during a briefing at the State Department on Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2022, in Washington. (Brendan Smialowski/Pool via AP)

U.S., NATO reject sweeping Russian demands, but hold open ‘diplomatic path’

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Masked pro-Russian armed militants guard a checkpoint with a Russian national flag on the right, blocking the major highway which links Kharkiv, outside Slovyansk, Ukraine, on May 24, 2014. Russia's present demands are based on Putin's purported long sense of grievance and his rejection of Ukraine and Belarus as truly separate, sovereign countries but rather as part of a Russian linguistic and Orthodox motherland. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

West slams reports of Russian plan for puppet government in Ukraine

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Secretary of State Antony Blinken greets Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov before their meeting, Friday, Jan. 21, 2022, in Geneva, Switzerland. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, Pool)

U.S., Russia far apart on Ukraine crisis as top diplomats meet

By Matthew Lee and Jamey Keaten - Associated Press

A protester stands in protest to denounce the U.S. policies on North Korea near the U.S. Embassy in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021. North Korea on Monday accused the United States of keeping up its &quot;hostile policy&quot; and demanded the Biden administration permanently end joint military exercises with South Korea even as it continued its recent streak of weapons tests apparently aimed at pressuring Washington and Seoul over slow nuclear diplomacy. The sign reads &quot;Suspension of war practice against North Korea and withdrawal of the U.S. troops.&quot; (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon) ** FILE **

Biden leaves key ambassador posts empty in Ukraine, Saudi Arabia, South Korea

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

In this photo taken from video provided by the Russian Defense Ministry Press Service, A Russian armored vehicle drives off a railway platform after arrival in Belarus, Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2022. In a move that further beefs up forces near Ukraine, Russia has sent an unspecified number of troops from the country's far east to its ally Belarus, which shares a border with Ukraine, for major war games next month. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)

Biden warns of ‘dear price’ for Russia as Blinken huddles with Ukraine

By David R. Sands and Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times