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People clean debris in a residential area after Russian airstrike in Bakhmut, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Saturday, May 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Russian attack on school seen as part of urgent offensive ahead of ‘Victory Day’ celebration

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

In this handout photo released by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Wednesday, April 20, 2022, the Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile is launched from Plesetsk in Russia's northwest. Russia said on Wednesday it had conducted a first test launch of its Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile, a new and long-awaited addition to its nuclear arsenal which President Vladimir Putin said would make Moscow's enemies stop and think. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP) ** FILE **

Russian officer: Missile to carry several hypersonic weapons

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Internally displaced people from Mariupol and nearby towns arrive at a refugee center fleeing from the Russian attacks, in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Thursday, April 21, 2022. Mariupol, which is part of the industrial region in eastern Ukraine known as the Donbas, has been a key Russian objective since the Feb. 24 invasion began. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Live updates | US convening talks on Ukraine’s defense needs

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

In this handout photo released by Roscosmos Space Agency Press Service on Wednesday, April 20, 2022, the Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile is launched from Plesetsk in Russia's northwest. Russia said on Wednesday it had conducted a first test launch of its Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile, a new and long-awaited addition to its nuclear arsenal which President Vladimir Putin said would make Moscow's enemies stop and think. (Roscosmos Space Agency Press Service via AP)

Russia test-fires new intercontinental ballistic missile

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Damaged and burned vehicles are seen at a destroyed part of the Illich Iron &amp; Steel Works Metallurgical Plant, as smoke rises from the Metallurgical Combine Azovstal during heavy fighting, in an area controlled by Russian-backed separatist forces in Mariupol, Ukraine, Monday, April 18, 2022. Mariupol, a strategic port on the Sea of Azov, has been besieged by Russian troops and forces from self-proclaimed separatist areas in eastern Ukraine for more than six weeks. (AP Photo/Alexei Alexandrov)

Live updates | Russia-Ukraine War

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Microsoft disrupts Russian cyberattackers targeting Ukraine, U.S., Europe

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

Soldiers walk amid destroyed Russian tanks in Bucha, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, April 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Demands for Russia to be held accountable mount as Ukrainian civilian deaths outrage world leaders

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

The regional government headquarters of Mykolaiv, Ukraine, following a Russian attack, on Tuesday, March 29, 2022. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says seven people were killed in a missile strike on the regional government headquarters in the southern city of Mykolayiv. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Live updates: Recall Ukraine ambassadors to Georgia, Morocco

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Women walks inside a school damaged among other residential buildings following a bombing in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, March 18, 2022. Russian forces pressed their assault on Ukrainian cities Friday, with new missile strikes and shelling on the edges of the capital Kyiv and the western city of Lviv, as world leaders pushed for an investigation of the Kremlin's repeated attacks on civilian targets, including schools, hospitals and residential areas. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Live updates: 20 babies from surrogate moms in bomb shelter

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Pedestrians walk over an overpass as 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)

Live updates: Zelenskyy says 9,000 leave besieged Mariupol

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Ukrainians attend patriotic action "Mariupol is Ukraine" in Mariupol, Ukraine, Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2022. Russian lawmakers on Tuesday authorized President Vladimir Putin to use military force outside the country a move that could presage a broader attack on Ukraine after the U.S. said an invasion was already underway there. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

World watches ‘the beginning of a Russian invasion’ in Ukraine

By Ben Wolfgang and Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin talks via videoconference with members of the Russian Paralympic Committee team on the eve of the XIII Paralympic Winter Games in Beijing, in Moscow, Russia, Monday, Feb. 21, 2022. (Alexei Nikolsky, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Putin says he may recognize the independence of two eastern Ukrainian regions

By Guy Taylor - 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

A Ukrainian serviceman carries an NLAW anti-tank weapon during an exercise in the Joint Forces Operation, in the Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2022. While the U.S. warns that Russia could invade Ukraine any day, the drumbeat of war is all but unheard in Moscow, where pundits and ordinary people alike don't expect President Vladimir Putin to launch an attack on its ex-Soviet neighbor. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Biden takes wait-and-see approach as Russia says some troops pulling back

By Ben Wolfgang and Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Russia says its airstrike in Syria killed 200 militants

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This screenshot from a U.S. Navy video shows a Russian jet (top left) approaching an American warship.

Russian fighter jet conducts dangerous ‘low pass’ of U.S. ship in Black Sea

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

A screenshot from the U.S. Navy's 5th Fleet showing an encounter with a Russian warship.

Russia threatens ‘ramming maneuver’ against U.S. Navy ship in Sea of Japan

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

In this photo taken from undated footage distributed by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service, an intercontinental ballistic missile lifts off from a truck-mounted launcher somewhere in Russia. The Russian military said the Avangard hypersonic weapon entered combat duty. Little on the Pentagon’s drawing board illustrates more clearly the Trump administration’s worry about China and Russia than its work on hypersonic weapons. These missiles and aerial vehicles fly at speeds of a mile a second or faster and maneuver in ways that make them extra difficult to detect and destroy in flight. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)

Russian general chafes at “provocative” NATO drills

By BY VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV - Associated Press

German accused of delivering machinery to Russian military

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Russian defense ministry boasts about revived military power

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV - Associated Press