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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks during a live broadcast at the 6th German-Ukrainian Business Forum of the DIHK, the Committee on Eastern European Economic Relations and the German-Ukrainian Chamber of Industry and Commerce (AHK Ukraine), in Berlin, Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2023. Topics include infrastructure, energy and defense as well as investment conditions for German companies in Ukraine. (Kay Nietfeld/dpa via AP)

Ukraine’s leader says Russian naval assets are no longer safe in the Black Sea near Crimea

By Hanna Arhirova - Associated Press

This image taken from the Twitter account of President Donald J. Trump, @realDonaldTrump, shows an undated photo of the aftermath of an explosion at Iran's Imam Khomeini Space Center in the country's Semnan province. The explosion Thursday, Aug. 29, 2019, left the smoldering remains of a rocket on a launch pad at the center, which was to conduct a U.S.-criticized satellite launch. In his tweet Friday, Aug. 30, 2019, Trump wrote: "The United States of America was not involved in the catastrophic accident during final launch preparations for the Safir SLV Launch at Semnan Launch Site One in Iran. I wish Iran best wishes and good luck in determining what happened at Site One." (Donald J. Trump Twitter account via AP)

Iran’s allies reach out as U.S. levels new round of sanctions

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Volunteers with the right-wing paramilitary Azov National Corps light flares during a rally on the snowy streets in front of the Ukrainian parliament in Kiev, Ukraine, Monday, Nov. 26, 2018. Some hundreds of protesters from far-right party National Corps brandished yellow-and-blue flags with the Ukrainian national trident symbol, and a banner reading 'Don't back down!&quot; (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

AP Explains: Russia-Ukraine dispute raises new tensions

By NATALIYA VASILYEVA - Associated Press

FILE In this Friday, March 7, 2014 file photo, Yulia Samoylova sits on stage during the opening ceremony of the 2014 Paralympic Games in Sochi, Russia. Ukraine's security service says it has prepared documents to ban Russia's contestant from this year's Eurovision song contest, but that a final decision has not been made. Russia chose Yulia Samoylova to represent the country in 2017's May 11-13 contest in Kiev. (AP Photo/Ekaterina Lyzlova, File)

Ukraine bans Russia’s entry to Eurovision song contest

By JIM HEINTZ - Associated Press

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, left, talks with Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida at the start of their meeting as a part of Japan-Russia foreign and defence ministers meeting at Iikura guest house in Tokyo, Japan Monday, March 20, 2017. The foreign and defense ministers from Japan and Russia are meeting in Tokyo for the first &quot;two-plus-two&quot; talks since Russia's annexation of Ukraine. (Issei Kato/Pool Photo via AP)

Japan and Russia hold talks on security, territorial dispute

By Elaine Kurtenbach - Associated Press

In this Monday, Jan. 25, 2016, file photo, a woman walks with her dog past a graffiti depicting the Russia and Crimean flags on the outskirts of Simferopol, Crimea. Two years after Russia seized Crimea from Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin touts the move as a historic achievement, looking on with a satisfied smile from countless billboards across the peninsula. However, overwhelming opposition from the Muslim Tatar ethnic minority puts a crack in this picture of unanimous support, as evidenced in interviews with more than two dozen Tatars across Crimea. And the resistance appears to be growing. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

Tatars step up resistance to Russian rule over Crimea

By Nataliya Vasilyeva - Associated Press

ADDS THAT RUSSIAN NEWS AGENCIES REPORTED THAT THE MEETING WAS HELD AT AN EARLIER DATE In this image supplied by the Presidential Press Service Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with the regional leader of Karelia in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, March 11, 2015 . The Kremlin’s press service attempted to dispel the rumors about Putin's health Wednesday by issuing a photo of a meeting between Putin and the regional governor of Karelia. However, local news agencies had reported on the meeting as early as March 5. Russian news agency RBC cited an anonymous source in the Karelian governor’s office as saying that the meeting had actually taken place March 4. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Alexei Druzhinin, Presidential Press Service)

Putin: Russia prepared raising nuclear readiness over Crimea

By JIM HEINTZ - Associated Press

The Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy hospital ship Peace Ark. (AP Photo/Marco Garcia)

Inside China: Money dispute with Kiev threatens future Chinese arms buys

By Miles Yu

In this Oct. 11, 2012, file photo Hunter Biden waits for the start of the his father's, Vice President Joe Biden's, debate at Centre College in Danville, Ky. Vice President Biden’s trip to Ukraine this weekend, June 7-8, 2014, to support that nation’s fragile democracy comes weeks after his youngest son, Hunter, 44, was hired by a private Ukrainian company that promotes energy independence from Russia. Hunter Biden’s employment means he will be working as a director and top lawyer for a Ukrainian energy company during the period when his father and the rest of the Obama administration attempt to influence the policies of Ukraine’s new government, especially on ever-important energy issues since Ukraine is an important natural-gas and petroleum-liquids transit country. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Ukrainian energy firm hires Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, as lawyer

By Stephen Braun - Associated Press

A man looks out of the back window of a bus in Donetsk, Ukraine, Monday May 19, 2014. Ukraine will hold presidential elections on May 25. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Ukraine’s hobbled navy: ‘Times are not the best’

By TIM SULLIVAN - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev attend a Victory Day parade, which commemorates the 1945 defeat of Nazi Germany, at Red Square in Moscow, Russia, Friday, May 9, 2014. Russia marked the Victory Day on May 9 holding a military parade at Red Square. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service)

Putin in Crimea for Victory Day celebration

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV and IVAN SEKRETAREV - Associated Press

Masked pro-Russian activists pass by a barricade as they guard a regional administration building that they had seized earlier in Donetsk, Ukraine, Friday, April 11, 2014. Ukraine’s prime minister on Friday told leaders in the country’s restive east that he is committed to allowing regions to have more powers. Yatsenyuk Friday morning flew into Donetsk, where pro-Russian separatists are occupying the regional administration building and calling for a referendum that could prefigure seeking annexation by Russia. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Ukraine PM: Regions should have more powers

By PETER LEONARD - Associated Press

** FILE ** This Feb. 28, 2014, file-pool photo shows Russian President Vladimir Putin during his working meetings at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Russia. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti Presidential Press Service, Alexei Nikolsky, File-Pool)

Putin threatens to make Ukraine pay ahead for gas

By Laura Mills and Peter Leonard - Associated Press

Pro-Russian activists gather behind a barricade with Russian flags in front an entrance of the Ukrainian regional office of the Security Service in Luhansk, 30 kilometers (20 miles) west of the Russian border, in Ukraine, Tuesday, April 8, 2014. A crowd of pro-Russian activists stormed the building on Sunday, April 6, 2014. Local media reported that demonstrators pelted the building with eggs, and then stones, a smoke grenade and finally a firebomb. The flames were reportedly quickly extinguished. (AP Photo/Igor Golovniov)

Putin turns up economic heat before Ukraine talks

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV and PETER LEONARD - Associated Press

A man talks on a mobile phone next to a downtown McDonald's in Hong Kong, Wednesday, April 2, 2014. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)

McDonald’s shuts down its three restaurants in Crimea

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Ousted Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych reacts during an interview with The Associated Press, in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, on Wednesday, April 2, 2014. Yanukovych says the annexation of Crimea was a tragedy and he would have done everything possible to prevent it, had he remained in power. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)

Viktor Yanukovych admits he was ‘wrong’ to have invited Russian troops to Crimea

By Caro Kriel and Vladimir Isachenkov - Associated Press

President George W. Bush meets with Russia's President Vladimir Putin Sunday, July 22, 2001, during a G8 reception at the Palazzo Ducale in Genoa, Italy. Photographs by Eric Draper from Front Row Seat: A Photographic Portrait of the Presidency of George W. Bush(Copyright &#194;&#169; 2013). For more information visit www.utexaspress.com

TYRRELL: Invader Moscow’s economic weakness

By R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.

President Barack Obama is greeted by Belgian King Phillippe, left, and Belgian Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo upon his arrival on Air Force One at Brussels International Airport, Tuesday, March 25, 2014 in Brussels, Belgium. Obama is visiting Brussels to attend European Union and NATO summits. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama prods allies while downplaying Russian power

By Jim Kuhnhenn - Associated Press

U.S. President Barack Obama, left, shakes hands with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, right, as they pose for a group photo on the last day of the Nuclear Security Summit (NSS) in The Hague, Netherlands, Tuesday, March 25, 2014. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)

Obama expresses concern Russia moving on Ukraine

By JIM KUHNHENN - Associated Press