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Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko speaks during a cabinet meeting in Kiev, Ukraine, Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2015. (AP Photo/Mykola Lazarenko, Pool)

Ukraine vows to increase troops to fend off rebel attacks

By Efrem Lukatsky - Associated Press

Firefighters were unable to save a house during shelling Monday night in Donetsk, Ukraine. The artillery exchange between government troops and Russia-backed rebels killed several people. (Associated Press)

Russia-Ukraine clashes spark fears Vladimir Putin may greenlight offensive

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

A newly mobilized Ukrainian soldier shows his skills during military drills in base Desna 100km north from Kiev, Ukraine, Friday, Feb. 13, 2015. Fierce fighting surged in East Ukraine as Russian-backed separatists mounted a major and sustained new push Friday to capture a strategic railway hub ahead of a weekend cease-fire deadline. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

L. TODD WOOD: Is East Ukraine about to blow?

By L. Todd Wood

Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk speaks during an interview with the Associated Press following the first U.S.-Ukraine Business Forum co-hosted by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Commerce Department, Monday, July 13, 2015, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

RICHARD BURT: Preserving Ukraine’s financial future

By Richard Burt

Workers decorate a New Year tree, in front of the St. Sophia Cathedral in central Kiev, Ukraine, Monday, Dec. 15, 2014. New Year is widely celebrated as the most popular holiday in Ukraine with the Orhodox Christmas being celebrated on Jan. 7. (AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov)

L. TODD WOOD: Vacation in Ukraine, seriously

By L. Todd Wood

The Artemovsk Winery in Ukraine continues to operate despite being close to where Ukrainian government forces and pro-Russia separatists have clashed. (Thomas Edward Phillips)

Ukraine wineries struggle amid standoff with Russia over Crimean Peninsula

By Ted Phillips - Special to The Washington Times

Using his might: "If Ukraine will be alone in this fight, it will be a tragedy for all our countries," said Vitali Klitschko, who is pressuring the U.S. and the European Union to help his country keep Western influence. (Associated Press)

Vitali Klitschko, ex-heavyweight boxing champ, says Ukraine can’t take on Russia alone

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

The ongoing security situation and lack of economic opportunities has Ukrainians leaving in droves for the West — and even Russia. However, some say the exodus will allow for new opportunities at home. (Associated Press)

Ukraine sees ‘brain drain’ as its best and brightest escape chaos for the West

By Ted Phillips - Special to The Washington Times

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

NATO's Supreme Allied Commander for Europe (SACEUR) US General Philip Breedlove speaks at a press conference at the KFOR military headquarters in capital Pristina on Thursday, Feb. 19, 2015 during his visit to Kosovo. (Associated Press)

Ukraine: Rebels still attacking despite alleged cease-fire

By Jim Heintz - Associated Press

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, left, inspects military armored personnel carriers during his visit to the State Border Guard Service in Kiev, Ukraine, Saturday, Feb. 14, 2015. (AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov)

Fierce fighting in Ukraine as cease-fire deadline approaches

Associated Press

A newly mobilized Ukrainian soldier shows his skills during military drills in base Desna 100km north from Kiev, Ukraine, Friday, Feb. 13, 2015. Fierce fighting surged in East Ukraine as Russian-backed separatists mounted a major and sustained new push Friday to capture a strategic railway hub ahead of a weekend cease-fire deadline. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Ukraine battles persist before cease-fire deadline; 25 dead

By Balint Szlanko - Associated Press

Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko holds Russian passports claiming they are proof of the presence of Russian troops in Ukraine as he addresses the 51. Security Conference in Munich, Germany, Saturday, Feb. 7, 2015. The conference on security policy takes place from Feb. 6, 2015 until Feb. 8, 2015. (AP Photo/Stringer)

Petro Poroshenko, Ukraine president, pushes for fast cease-fire, defensive arms

Associated Press

John Kerry in Ukraine says U.S. ‘does not seek a confrontation’ with Russia

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said during a visit to Hungary on Monday that her nation will not provide military hardware to Ukraine and asserted that the war with Russia-backed forces "cannot be solved militarily." (Associated Press)

Obama weighs lethal military aid to embattled Ukraine

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin wears special glasses as he visits a research facility of the St. Petersburg State University in St. Petersburg, Russia, on Monday, Jan. 26, 2015. In televised comments after a meeting with students in St. Petersburg, President Vladimir Putin said that Ukraine&#8217;s army was at fault for the increase in violence and accused it of using civilians as &#8220;cannon fodder&#8221; in the conflict. &#8220;(Ukraine&#8217;s army) is not even an army, it&#8217;s a foreign legion, in this case a foreign NATO legion,&#8221; Putin said. &#8220;They have totally different goals, connected to the geopolitical containment of Russia, which absolutely do not coincide with the national interests of the Ukrainian people.&#8221; (AP Photo/RIA Novosti Kremlin, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service)

Andrei Kelin, Russian envoy: ‘Big catastrophe’ may ensue if West’s Ukraine support continues

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

Smoke still rises from a destroyed house that was damaged in Saturday's shelling in the Vostochniy district of Mariupol, Ukraine, Monday, Jan. 26, 2015. At least 5,100 people have been killed in eastern Ukraine since fighting began in April 2014, but violence this week was the most intense since a cease-fire deal was signed in September. Mariupol, a strategic port city on the Black Sea still controlled by Ukrainian forces, has been a symbolic bulwark against the separatist advance that if captured by the rebels would give them a land corridor to Russia-controlled Crimea. The city had been relatively quiet for months before Saturday's attack.(AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Russia sanctions fail to stop Ukraine fighting

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Pro-Russian rebels help a priest to put bodies of killed Ukrainian soldiers in a truck on a check point captured by pro-Russian rebels at the town of Krasniy Partizan, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, Jan. 24, 2015. The fighting continues despite several cease fire declarations. (AP Photo/Mstyslav Chernov)

Pro-Russian separatists launch offensive; rockets kill 30 in Ukrainian city

By Peter Leonard - 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

A man in camouflage guards and chases away any would-be visitors at the Dobrobut farm in Grabovo, Crimea in this photo taken on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2014. Dobrobut was one of dozens of businesses to be forcibly taken over this year by Crimea's new pro-Moscow leaders. (AP Photo/Laura Mills)

Crimea change of leadership means property grab

By Laura Mills and John-Thor Dahlburg - Associated Press