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A mother embraces her son who escaped the besieged city of Mariupol and arrived at the train station in Lviv, western Ukraine on Sunday, March 20, 2022. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Ukrainians flee Russian onslaught on Mariupol; 10% of population vacates city

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

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

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

A Ukrainian soldier looks through binoculars at a military check point, in Lityn, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Live updates: Zelenskyy mum on specifics of new US aid

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Firefighters extinguish fires in an apartment building after being hit by shelling in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

U.S., allies push China to rein in Russia as civilian suffering rises in Ukraine

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

A man walks with a bicycle in a street damaged by shelling in Mariupol, Ukraine, Thursday, March 10, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Russians keep pressure on Mariupol; massive convoy breaks up

By Evgeniy Maloletka - Associated Press

Ukrainian emergency employees and volunteers carry an injured pregnant woman from the damaged by shelling maternity hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 9, 2022. A Russian attack has severely damaged a maternity hospital in the besieged port city of Mariupol, Ukrainian officials say. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Strike on Ukrainian hospital that killed 3 draws outrage; diplomats to meet in a Turkish resort

By Evgeniy Maloletka and Mstyslav Chernov - Associated Press

Ukrainians cross an improvised path under a destroyed bridge while fleeing Irpin, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

Chernobyl switched onto generators; sirens in Ukraine’s capital; civilians try to flee cities

By Yuras Karmanau - Associated Press

This image taken from video issued by Mariupol City Council shows the aftermath of Mariupol Hospital after an attack, in Mariupol, Ukraine, Wednesday March 9, 2022. A Russian attack severely damaged the children's hospital and maternity ward in the besieged port city of Mariupol, Ukrainian officials said. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote on Twitter that there were people, children under the wreckage of the hospital and called the strike an atrocity.

Attacks hits Ukraine children’s hospital, officials say

By Vadim Ghirda and Yuras Karmanau - Associated Press

A woman wrapped in thermal blanket fleeing from Ukraine, waits to board a bus at the border crossing in Medyka, Poland, Poland, Tuesday, March 8, 2022. Russia's invasion of Ukraine has set off the largest mass migration in Europe in decades, with more than 1.5 million people having crossed from Ukraine into neighboring countries. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)

People flee embattled Ukrainian cities along safe corridors

By Yuras Karmanau - Associated Press

An elderly lady is assisted while crossing the Irpin river, under a bridge that was destroyed by a Russian airstrike, as civilians flee the town of Irpin, Ukraine, Saturday, March 5, 2022. What looked like a breakthrough cease-fire to evacuate residents from two cities in Ukraine quickly fell apart Saturday as Ukrainian officials said shelling had halted the work to remove civilians hours after Russia announced the deal. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Russian attacks halt plans to evacuate Ukrainian civilians

By Yuras Karmanau - Associated Press

People take shelter inside a building in Mariupol, Ukraine, Sunday, Feb. 27, 2022. Street fighting broke out in Ukraine's second-largest city and Russian troops squeezed strategic ports in the country's south as the prospect of peace talks remains uncertain. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Ukraine says third round of talks with Russia set for Monday

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

Serhii, father of teenager Iliya, cries on his son's lifeless body lying on a stretcher at a maternity hospital converted into a medical ward in Mariupol, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Ukrainian father mourns son killed in Russian attack on soccer field

By Mstyslav Chernov - Associated Press

Passengers rush to board a train leaving to Slovakia from the Lviv railway station, in Lviv, west Ukraine, Wednesday, March 2, 2022. Russian forces have escalated their attacks on crowded cities in what Ukraine's leader called a blatant campaign of terror. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

Ukraine refugee count tops 1 million; Russians besiege ports

By Jim Heintz, Yuras Karmanau, Vladimir Isachenkov and Dash Litvinova - Associated Press

Kateryna Suharokova holds her newborn son Makar in the basement of a maternity hospital converted into a medical ward and used as a bomb shelter in Mariupol, Ukraine, Monday, Feb. 28, 2022. In makeshift shelters and underground railway platforms across Ukraine, families trying to protect the young and old and make conditions bearable amid the bullets, missiles and shells outside. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Ukrainian maternity ward moves to basement for shelter

By Mstyslav Chernov - Associated Press

A Ukrainian Army soldier inspects fragments of a downed aircraft in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, Feb. 25, 2022. It was unclear what aircraft crashed and what brought it down amid the Russian invasion in Ukraine. Russia is pressing its invasion of Ukraine to the outskirts of the capital after unleashing airstrikes on cities and military bases and sending in troops and tanks from three sides. (AP Photo/Vadim Zamirovsky)

Russians advance, Ukrainians resist as war builds in heart of Europe

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Ukrainian security official dies in car blast

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

People fish in a stream outside a steel factory in the Sea of Azov port city, Mariupol, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 10, 2015. The bulk of continued unrest along the 485-kilometer (300-mile) front lines, between Ukraine's government forces and Russia-backed rebels, has been concentrated around the separatist stronghold of Donetsk, but pitched battles are also taking place in the town of Shyrokyne, near the strategic port city of Mariupol. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

L. TODD WOOD: Is Russia backing down in East Ukraine?

By L. Todd Wood

A Ukrainian serviceman patrols the area near the division line with separatists in Marinka, near Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, Friday, June 5, 2015. As fears persist that eastern Ukraine is about to fall back into full-scale war, a leader of the international monitoring group is urgently calling for resumed negotiations. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

L. TODD WOOD: Is Putin preparing for all-out war in Ukraine?

By L. Todd Wood