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Illustration on permanent Ukrainian neutrality by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

A solution for the Ukrainian quagmire

By Pascal Lottaz and Herbert Reginbogin

Shakhtar’s Champions League game against Lyon moved to Kiev

Associated Press

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko speak to soldiers during a visit to a military base in Chernihiv region, Ukraine, Wednesday, Nov, 28, 2018. Russia and Ukraine traded blame after Russian border guards on Sunday opened fire on three Ukrainian navy vessels and eventually seized them and their crews. The incident put the two countries on war footing and raised international concern. (Mykola Lazarenko, Presidential Press Service via AP)

The Latest: Russian cleric: Ukraine raid on home ‘political’

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Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko speak to soldiers during a visit to a military base in Chernihiv region, Ukraine, Wednesday, Nov, 28, 2018. Russia and Ukraine traded blame after Russian border guards on Sunday opened fire on three Ukrainian navy vessels and eventually seized them and their crews. The incident put the two countries on war footing and raised international concern. (Mykola Lazarenko, Presidential Press Service via AP)

Ukraine urges NATO to deploy ships amid standoff with Russia

By Yuras Karmanau - Associated Press

In this image taken from video released by the Russia's Federal Security Service taken from a Russian Coast Guard vessel purporting to show an incident between the Russian coast guard and a Ukrainian tugboat, in the Kerch Strait on Sunday Nov. 25, 2018. Russia said three Ukrainian vessels made an unauthorised passage through Russian territorial waters, while Ukraine alleged that one of its boats was rammed by a Russian coast guard vessel. (Russia's Federal Security Service via AP)

The Latest: Soccer match moved to Kiev amid martial law

Associated Press

Then-United States Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley speaks during a security council meeting about the escalating tensions between the Ukraine and Russia at United Nations headquarters, Monday, Nov. 26, 2018. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Russia-Ukraine Kerch Strait incident draws international condemnation

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Acting leader of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic Denis Pushilin, right, and his wife wait to get their ballots at a polling station during rebel elections in Donetsk, Ukraine, Sunday, Nov. 11, 2018. Residents of the eastern Ukraine regions controlled by Russia-backed separatist rebels are voting for local governments in elections denounced by Kiev and the West. (AP Photo)

Ukraine rebel regions vote in ballot that West calls bogus

By YURAS KARMANAU - Associated Press

FILE - In this Thursday Oct. 11, 2018 file photo, Patriarch Filaret, head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kiev Patriarchate, conducts a service at the Volodymysky Cathedral in Kiev, Ukraine. Tensions over the imminent formation of a Ukrainian Orthodox church independent of Moscow are raising fears that nationalists may try to seize Russian church properties. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, FILE)

Birth of a new Ukrainian church brings fears of violence

By YURAS KARMANAU - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 4, 2004 file photo, a full moon rises above the golden domes of the Orthodox Monastery of the Caves in Kiev, Ukraine. Ukraine is lobbying hard for a religious divorce from Russia and some observers say the issue could be decided as soon as September 2018. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)

Ungodly espionage: Russian hackers targeted Orthodox clergy

By RAPHAEL SATTER - Associated Press

FILE - In this early Sunday, April 16, 2017 file photo, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, the spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians, leads the Easter Resurrection Service at the Patriarchal Cathedral of St. George in Istanbul, Turkey. The Russian hackers indicted by the U.S. special prosecutor in July 2018 have spent years trying to steal the private correspondence of some of the world’s most senior Christian Orthodox figures, including top aides to Bartholomew, The Associated Press has found, illustrating the high stakes as Kiev and Moscow wrestle over the religious future of Ukraine. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File)

Unholy hackers: Orthodox clergy targeted by Russian spies

By RAPHAEL SATTER - Associated Press

Ousted Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych speaks during the interview with The Associated Press, in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, on Wednesday, April 2, 2014. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)

Ukrainian prosecutors seek 15-year prison sentence for Yanukovych, Paul Manafort’s former client

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

In this photo taken on Friday, Aug. 9, 2013, Arkady Babchenko, 41, who had been scathingly critical of the Kremlin in recent years, looks at an opposition picket in Moscow, Russia. Police in the capital of Ukraine say a Russian journalist has been shot and killed at his Kiev apartment. Ukrainian police said Arkady Babchenko's wife found him bleeding at the apartment on Tuesday, May 29, 2018 and called an ambulance, but Babchenko died on the way to a hospital. (AP Photo/Alexander Baroshin)

‘Slain’ Russian journalist turns up alive at news conference

By DMYTRO VLASOV and NATALIYA VASILYEVA - Associated Press

The President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, briefs the media during a news conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel after a meeting at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, April 10, 2018. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Massive change needed to fix what’s broken in stumbling Ukraine

By L. Todd Wood

Critics accuse Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko — a former candy magnate and an ally of the Trump administration — and his allies of bribing lawmakers, profiting from corrupt business deals and hampering efforts to clean up corruption that has plagued the country since it gained independence after the Cold War. (Associated Press)

Vitaliy Shabunin faces jail in Ukraine corruption fight

By Olga Rudenko — Special to The Washington Times

Atletico's Fernando Torres celebrates with team mates after scoring during the Europa League, round of 16 second leg soccer match between Lokomotiv Moscow and Atletico Madrid, in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, March 15, 2018. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

Welbeck double lifts Arsenal, Torres boosts Atletico

By KAREL JANICEK - Associated Press

Arsenal's Aaron Ramsey, top, celebrates with Sead Kolasinac after scoring his side's second goal scores his side's second goal during the Europa League, round of 16 first-leg soccer match between AC Milan and Arsenal, at the Milan San Siro stadium, Italy, Thursday, March 8, 2018. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)

Surprise Europa League wins for Arsenal, Salzburg

By KAREL JANICEK - Associated Press

This Aug. 24, 2017, file photo shows Ukrainian soldiers marching along main Khreshchatyk Street during a military parade to celebrate Independence Day in Kiev, Ukraine. The Trump administration has approved a plan to provide lethal weapons to Ukraine, including Javelin anti-tank missiles. That's according to several U.S. officials who weren't authorized to discuss the decision publicly and demanded anonymity Friday, Dec. 22, 2017. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky) **FILE**

EDITORIAL: U.S. backs Ukraine with weapons

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Ukrainian lawmakers scuffled during a parliament session in October. Former Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili, who now heads an opposition party, accuses President Petro Poroshenko of stalling reforms and covering up corruption. (Associated Press/File)

Ukraine’s anti-corruption promise fades by the day

By L. Todd Wood

Apollon's Emilio Zelaya, left, with his teammate Hector Yuste celebrates his goal against Atalanta during the Europa League group E soccer match between Apollon Limassol and Atalanta at the GSP stadium, in Nicosia, Cyprus, on Thursday, Nov. 2, 2017. The match ended 1-1. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

Arsenal, Lazio advance in Europa; Milan held to 0-0 again

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Companies in Ukraine, Russia come under new cyberattack

Associated Press