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Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection Robert Habeck speaks at a press conference following the virtual G-7 energy ministers' meeting at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection in Berlin, Germany, Monday, March 28, 2022. The G-7 energy ministers met at the invitation of Vice Chancellor Habeck for a short-term virtual switch and discussed the current situation surrounding the war in Ukraine. (Bernd von Jutrczenka/dpa via AP)

Poland to end Russian oil imports; Germany warns on gas

By Monika Scislowska and Frank Jordans - Associated Press

A Ukrainian flag is installed on an apartment building damaged by fighting between Russian and Ukrainian troops in a village of Lukyanivka, Kyiv region, Ukraine, Sunday, March 27, 2022. (AP Photo)

Live updates: UN chief wants Ukraine humanitarian cease-fire

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

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

In this photo provided by the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Foundation, former Buchenwald prisoner Boris Romanchenko, second from right, from Ukraine attends with other survivors a commemoration for murdered prisoners at the former Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar, Germany, April, 12, 2015. Germany’s Buchenwald concentration camp memorial says Boris Romanchenko, who survived camps at Buchenwald, Peenemuende, Dora and Bergen-Belsen during World War II, was killed Friday when his home in Kharkiv was attacked. Romanchenko was 96 and vice president of the International Buchenwald-Dora Committee. (Michael Reichel/TSK/Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Foundation via AP)

Germany honors survivor of Nazi camps, 96, killed in Ukraine

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Nancy Faeser, Federal Minister of the Interior and Home Affairs, speaks at a press conference to present the Action Plan on Right-Wing Extremism in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, March 15, 2022. Germany's top security officials announced a ten-point plan Tuesday to combat far-right extremism in the country that includes disarming some 1,500 suspected extremists and tightening background checks for those wanting to acquire guns. Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said the far right poses the biggest extremist threat to democracy in Germany and said authorities would seek to tackle the issue through prevention and tough measures. (Christophe Gateau/dpa via AP)

Germany to disarm far-right extremists, restricts gun access

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F-35B aircraft pass on a runway after landing at the Akrotiri Royal air forces base near the city of Limassol, Cyprus, Tuesday, May 21, 2019. Germany announced Monday that it will replace its aging fleet of Tornado bomber jets with U.S.-made F-35 Lighting II aircraft capable of carrying nuclear weapons. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias, File)

Germany to buy U.S.-made F-35s to replace aging bombers

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In this file photo, two Polish Air Force Russian-made MiG-29's fly above and below two Polish Air Force U.S. made F-16's fighter jets during the Air Show in Radom, Poland, on Aug. 27, 2011. The Polish government said on March 8, 2022, that it is prepared to hand over its entire fleet of MiG-29 fighters to the United States for possible use in Ukraine, so long as Washington and its NATO allies provide Warsaw with comparable combat aircraft. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz, File) ** FILE **

Poland’s plan to ship jet fighters to Ukraine through U.S. a nonstarter, Pentagon says

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Olga Okhrimenko, 34 years-old, who fled the Russian invasion from Kharkiv on March 1, holds her dog Knolly as they sit inside a ballroom converted into a makeshift refugee shelter, in Suceava, Romania, Friday, March 4, 2022. At 4-star hotel &amp; spa some 50 km from the border with Ukraine, wedding parties and conferences have been canceled and the ballroom converted into a makeshift refugee shelter where those who have escaped the Russian invasion come to rest and warm up before continuing their journey. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

At Romania hotel, ballroom welcomes refugees fleeing Ukraine

By Renata Brito - Associated Press

Yan Skvyeskyi poses with a smarthphone showing his parents Irina and Igor Kushnir prior to an interview with the Associated Press in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, March 1, 2022. Ukrainian Skvyeskyi, who works in sales in Berlin, immigrated to Germany in 1990, after the collapse of the Soviet Union. As Russia's war in Ukraine drags into its second week, more than 1.5 million Ukrainians immigrants living in other European countries, are watching on in agony, horror and fear as their relatives and friends back home are looking for shelter in bunkers or are desperately trying to flee the country. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

Ukrainian diaspora helps civilians back home escape the war

By Kirsten Grieshaber - Associated Press

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz comments on the Russian attack on Ukraine during a press conference at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, Feb.22, 2022. Russian troops launched the expected attack on Ukraine on Thursday. (Michael Kappeler/dpa via AP)

Once-reluctant Germany boosts military in wake of Russian invasion

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz addresses a joint press conference with Ireland's Prime Minister following talks at the Chancellery in Berlin on February 22, 2022. (John MACDOUGALL /Pool Photo via AP)

Germany makes historic shift on defense after Russia invasion

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

Numerous people demonstrate with signs and flags on Wilhelmsplatz in Stuttgart, Germany, against Russia's military deployment in Ukraine on Saturday, Feb. 26, 2022. (Christoph Schmidt/dpa via AP)

In a major shift, Germany will send weapons to Ukraine

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A Ukrainian serviceman stands at his position at the line of separation between Ukraine-held territory and rebel-held territory near Svitlodarsk, eastern Ukraine, Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2022. U.S. President Joe Biden announced the U.S. was ordering heavy financial sanctions against Russia, declaring that Moscow had flagrantly violated international law in what he called the "beginning of a Russian invasion of Ukraine." (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Biden imposes new sanctions as Putin escalates war in Ukraine

By Jeff Mordock, Ramsey Touchberry and Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Pipes at the landfall facilities of the "Nord Stream 2" gas pipeline are pictured in Lubmin, northern Germany, on Feb. 15, 2022. The White House is expected to announce Wednesday that President Joe Biden is allowing sanctions to move forward against the company that built the Russia-to-Germany Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline and against the company's CEO. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, File)

Biden expands Russian sanctions to Nord Stream 2

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Pipes at the landfall facilities of the "Nord Stream 2" gas pipline are pictured in Lubmin, northern Germany, on Feb. 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, File)

German chancellor halts Nord Stream 2 pipeline after Moscow recognizes separatist regions in Ukraine

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

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

Illustration on opposing Russia by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Russia could win World War III in Europe with EMP nuclear attack

By Peter Pry

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

Russian foreign minister urges Putin to talk with West on Ukraine

By Yuras Karmanau and Vladimir Isachenkov - Associated Press

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz arrives at the airport in Berlin, Germany, Monday, Feb 14, 2022. Scholz is flying to Ukraine on Monday and to Russia on Tuesday this week in an effort to help defuse escalating tensions between the countries. (Kay Nietfeld/dpa via AP)

German leader Olaf Scholz in Ukraine as fears of Russian invasion grow

By Yuras Karmanau and Vladimir Isachenkov - Associated Press

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier comes out of Bellevue Palace to receive Lithuanian President Nauseda for talks in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, Feb. 10, 2022. On Sunday (Feb. 13, 2022), a new head of state will be elected by the Federal Assembly in the German Bundestag. Steinmeier is standing for election again and is supported by the traffic light coalition and the CDU/CSU. (Bernd von Jutrczenka/dpa via AP)

Reelected German president vows to fight for democracy

By Kirsten Grieshaber - Associated Press