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A Ukrainian serviceman exits a bunker on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, March 20, 2022. Russian forces pushed deeper into Ukraine's besieged and battered port city of Mariupol on Saturday, where heavy fighting shut down a major steel plant and local authorities pleaded for more Western help. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Ukraine rejects Russian demand for surrender in Mariupol

By Cara Anna - Associated Press

A soldier smokes a cigarette while walking next to a destroyed building after a bombing in Satoya neighborhood in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, March 20, 2022. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Live updates: Zelenskyy says Ukraine ready to discuss deal

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

A refugee child looks out from a bus after fleeing the war from neighbouring Ukraine, at the border crossing in Palanca, Moldova, Saturday, March 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

Russians push deeper into Mariupol as locals plead for help

By Cara Anna - Associated Press

Women walks inside a school damaged among other residential buildings following a bombing in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, March 18, 2022. Russian forces pressed their assault on Ukrainian cities Friday, with new missile strikes and shelling on the edges of the capital Kyiv and the western city of Lviv, as world leaders pushed for an investigation of the Kremlin's repeated attacks on civilian targets, including schools, hospitals and residential areas. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Live updates: 20 babies from surrogate moms in bomb shelter

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

A cloud of smoke raises after an explosion in Lviv, western Ukraine, Friday, March 18, 2022. The mayor of Lviv says missiles struck near the city's airport early Friday. (AP Photo)

Russian strikes hit outskirts of Ukrainian capital and Lviv, near Polish border

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Pedestrians walk over an overpass as a cloud of smoke raises after an explosion in Lviv, Western Ukraine, Friday, March 18, 2022. The mayor of Lviv says missiles struck near the city's airport early Friday. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Live updates: Zelenskyy says 9,000 leave besieged Mariupol

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Displaced Ukrainians onboard a Poland-bound train in Lviv, western Ukraine, Sunday, March 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Western Ukraine, once a safe haven, now a Russian target

By Ben Wolfgang and Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

People holding their children struggle to get on a train to Lviv at the Kyiv station, Ukraine, Monday, March 7, 2022. Russia announced yet another cease-fire and a handful of humanitarian corridors to allow civilians to flee Ukraine. Previous such measures have fallen apart and Moscow's armed forces continued to pummel some Ukrainian cities with rockets Monday. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Lviv’s mayor pleads for international aid as refugee crush strains Ukrainian city

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Volunteers weave camouflage nets at an art gallery in Lviv’s city center. Removed from heavy fighting, Lviv, which sits in the far reaches of western Ukraine has mobilized as a key rear base of operations supporting Ukrainian resistance fighters on the Eastern front. (The Washington Times Photo / Joseph Clark)

Lviv mobilizes as Ukraine’s key Western fallback

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

A sign outside St. Andrew Ukrainian Orthodox Memorial Church in South Bound Brook, N.J., reads, &quot;Pray for Ukraine,&quot; Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2022. Religious leaders and members of the Ukrainian diaspora in the United States are growing increasingly alarmed over the threat of a Russian invasion to Ukraine and have stepped efforts to help their family members back home. (AP Photo/Luis Andres Henao)

U.S. Ukrainian clergy, flocks show support amid Russia crisis

By Luis Andres Henao and Peter Smith - Associated Press

Father Stephan, Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church priest, wearing a special suit to protect himself against coronavirus enters an intensive care unit of the emergency hospital to visit visiting patients with COVID-19 in Lviv, Western Ukraine, Saturday, Jan. 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

AP PHOTOS: Ukraine’s hospitals grapple with COVID-19 surge

By EVGENIY MALOLETKA and MSTYSLAV CHERNOV - Associated Press

President of Ukraine and candidate for 2019 elections, Petro Poroshenko, is seen on a screen as he talks for supporters during a election campaign rally in Lviv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 28, 2019. Presidential elections will be held in Ukraine on 31 March 2019. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Ukraine: President claims tycoon backed rivals for revenge

By YURAS KARMANAU and MSTYSLAV CHERNOV - Associated Press

In this photo taken on Monday, June 4, 2018 and provided by OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine Press Service, Roma activist Myroslav Horvat of the World Roma Organization, center, gestures while speaking to journalists in a church inside a Roma encampment on the outskirts of Uzhhorod, western Ukraine. After attackers charged into a Roma encampment on the outskirts of Kiev, a leader of an ultranationalist group posted photos of his colleagues clearing the site and burning tents left behind. The April attack was the first of 11 forced removals that civilians in Ukraine carried out at Roma settlements an ethnic group, also known as Gypsies, that faces discrimination and disdain in much of Europe. (Evgeniy Malolletka,OSCE Project Co-ordinator Press Service via AP)

Ukraine’s Roma live in fear amid wave of nationalist attacks

By YURAS KARMANAU and EVGENY MALOLETKA - Associated Press

Hou-Muzychuk, Game 4, after 18. Qc2.

DAVID R. SANDS: A chess challenger and a champion to be picked in busy March

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

In this photo taken Saturday, March 8, 2014, Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach speak during the ice sledge hockey match between Russia and South Korea of the 2014 Winter Paralympics in Sochi, Russia. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky, Presidential Press Service)

Lviv Olympic bid still in play amid Ukraine crisis

By STEPHEN WILSON - Associated Press

Demonstrators angered by more than two months of anti-government protests in Kiev gather on Khreschatyk street in Kiev, Ukraine, Saturday, Feb. 8, 2014. Thousands of people angered by months of anti-government protests in the Ukrainian capital converged on one of the protesters' barricades Saturday, but retreated after meeting sizeable resistance. (AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov)

Ukraine: Political crisis won’t derail 2022 bid

By STEPHEN WILSON - Associated Press