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Two A-10C Thunderbolt II aircraft pilots fly in formation during a training exercise March 16, 2010, at Moody Air Force, Ga. Members of the 74th Fighter Squadron performed surge operations to push its support function to the limit and simulate pilots' wartime flying rates. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Benjamin Wiseman) **FILE**

Removal of military gear limits options for U.S., NATO in Ukraine

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Soldiers of the Ukrainian Army react as they sit a top combat vehicles as they are blocked by people on their way to the town of Kramatorsk on Wednesday, April 16, 2014. The central government has so far been unable to rein in the insurgents, who it says are being stirred up by paid operatives from Russia and have seized numerous government facilities in at least nine eastern cities to press their demands for broader autonomy and closer ties with Russia. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Pro-Russian insurgents seize Ukrainian armored vehicles

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Ukrainian army troops set up a position at an airport in Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine, Tuesday, April 15, 2014. In the first Ukrainian military action against a pro-Russian uprising in the east, government forces clashed Tuesday with about 30 armed gunmen at a small airport in Kramatorsk. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

Amid clashes, White House nixes ‘lethal’ Ukraine aid

By Ashish Kumar Sen and Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this photo taken on Monday, April 14, 2014, Ukrainian soldiers sit on top of military vehicles with a Ukrainian national flag in a field about 70 kilometers (44 miles) from the eastern Ukrainian town of Slovyansk, where the Ukrainian regional administration building was seized by pro-Russian activists. A deadline set by the Ukrainian government for pro-Russian gunmen to leave government buildings in eastern Ukraine and surrender weapons passed without incident early Monday, with no immediate sign of any action to liberate any seized buildings. (AP Photo/Russian Reporter magazine, Maxim Dondyuk) MAGAZINES OUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY

Ukraine bares teeth against eastern uprising

By YURAS KARMANAU and PETER LEONARD - Associated Press

Pro-Russian men throw stones during the mass storming of a police station in Horlivka, eastern Ukraine, Monday, April 14, 2014. Ukraine's acting President Oleksandr Turchynov on Monday called for the deployment of United Nations peacekeeping troops in the east of the country, where pro-Russian insurgents have occupied buildings in nearly 10 cities. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Ukraine asks for U.N. peacekeepers in restive east

By Maria Danilova and Peter Leonard - Associated Press

Armed pro-Russian activist stands at a makeshift checkpoint at the entrance into the eastern Ukrainian town of Slovyansk on Saturday, April 12, 2014. Pro-Moscow protesters have seized a number of government buildings in the east over the past week, undermining the authority of the interim government in the capital, Kiev. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Armed men occupy Donetsk police station; ‘Russian aggression’ blamed for unrest

By Peter Leonard - 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

Secretary of State John F. Kerry defends the Obama administration's response to Russia's moves on eastern Ukraine during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing. (Associated Press Photographs)

Amid growing unrest, GOP presses for arming Ukraine

By Guy Taylor and Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

In this photo taken on Saturday, April 5, 2014, Oleh Lyashko, center left, leader of Ukrainian Radical Party and presidential candidate who supported the protests that ousted Russian-leaning president Viktor Yanukovych, poses with Ukrainian soldiers and officers at their camp near Ukraine-Russian border outside Chernihiv, 140km (87 miles) northeast of Kiev, Ukraine. Ukraine's security service said Saturday it has detained a 15-strong armed gang planning to seize power in an eastern province on the border with Russia. (AP Photo/Osman Karimov)

Pro-Russians storm Ukraine government buildings

By PETER LEONARD - Associated Press

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov attends a news conference after meeting with Foreign Ministers of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) in Moscow, Russia, Friday, April 4, 2014. Russia had no connection to the snipers in Ukraine and could not have any relation, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Friday in Moscow after the meeting with Foreign Ministers of the CIS. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)

Russian, Ukrainian clubs cancel football friendly

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov attends a news conference after meeting with Foreign Ministers of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) in Moscow, Russia, Friday, April 4, 2014. Russia had no connection to the snipers in Ukraine and could not have any relation, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Friday in Moscow after the meeting with Foreign Ministers of the CIS. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)

Russian, Ukrainian soccer clubs cancel game

Associated Press

FILE - In this file photo taken on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014, Olesya Zhukovska, left, is helped after being shot in her neck by a sniper bullet, in Independence Square, the epicenter of the country's current unrest, Kiev, Ukraine. &quot;I am dying&quot;, Olesya Zhukovska, a 21-year-old volunteer medic, wrote on Twitter, minutes after she got shot in the neck by a sniper's bullet as deadly clashes broke out in the center of the Ukrainian capital between protesters and police. The tweet, accompanied by a photo of her clutching her bleeding neck and being led away under fire, went viral, as social media users around the world presumed she had died and shared their grief and anger. Authorities in Ukraine said on Thursday that they have detained several members of an elite riot police unit on suspicion of shooting protesters during bloody anti-government clashes in February that left more than 100 dead. (AP Photo/Alexander Sherbakov, File)

Ukraine: Yanukovych ordered snipers to shoot

By MARIA DANILOVA - Associated Press