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Metropolitan Epiphanius, center right, and priests deliver an Orthodox Christmas service inside the nearly 1,000-year-old Pechersk Lavra Cathedral of Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2023. Hundreds of Ukrainians heard the Orthodox Christmas service in the Ukrainian language for the first time at Kyiv’s 1,000-year-old Lavra Cathedral on Orthodox Christmas Day, a demonstration of independence from the Russian orthodox church. (AP Photo/Roman Hrytsyna)

Ukrainians celebrate Orthodox Christmas in reclaimed church

By Hanna Arhirova - Associated Press

Ukrainian priests holding a service before the start of the Orthodox Chrismas in the St. Michael's Monastery of Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, Jan. 6, 2023. Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday ordered Moscow's armed forces to observe a 36-hour cease-fire in Ukraine this weekend for the Russian Orthodox Christmas holiday, but Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy questioned the Kremlin's intentions, accusing the Kremlin of planning the fighting pause "to continue the war with renewed vigor". (AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky)

Ukraine reclaims Kyiv cathedral amid church dispute

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Russian President Vladimir Putin listens to Russian Minister of Science and Higher Education Valery Falkov during their meeting in Moscow, Russia. in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2023. (Aleksey Babushkin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Putin’s proposed cease-fire gets frosty reception in Kyiv, Washington

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

The former speaker of Russia's parliament Ruslan Khasbulatov makes his way through a crowd of people, on his way to Grozny airport, Sept. 29, 1995. Ruslan Khasbulatov, who led a rebellion against Russia's first post-Soviet president, has died. He was 80. Khasbulatov's death was reported Tuesday Jan. 3, 2023, by Russian state television. (AP Photo/File)

Ruslan Khasbulatov, who led Russian parliament revolt, dies

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Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, seen onscreen, via a video conference at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Dec. 30, 2022. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Putin, Xi hold talks as Russia fires another Ukraine barrage

By Felipe Dana - Associated Press

A smile and a wave from a Soviet soldier, as his armoured convoy makes its way back to the Soviet Union along a north Afghanistan highway, Feb. 7, 1989. Despite Afghanistan's reputation as "the graveyard of empires," the Soviet Union sent in troops in 1979, quickly assassinating the country's leader and moving to install a compliant successor. More than 14,000 Soviet Army troops died in the conflict that seriously eroded the image of Soviet military superiority. (AP Photo/Boris Yurchenko, File)

Fallen colossus: USSR’s terror, triumphs began 100 years ago

By Jim Heintz - Associated Press

Ukrainian servicemen carry the coffin of their comrade during the funeral ceremony for Volodymyr Yezhov killed in a battlefield with Russian forces, at St. Volodymyr Cathedral in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2022. Yezhov was a game designer in the development of the game Cossacks 2. He was also one of the authors of the game S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky. Yezhov was also one of the most famous Ukrainian e-sportsmen — played StarCraft under the nickname Fresh. Since the Russian invasion, Volodymyr Yezhov went to the frontline and fought as part of the volunteer squadron. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Concessions refusals block any hope for Russia-Ukraine peace talks

By Ben Wolfgang and Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Smoke billows after Russian attacks in the outskirts of Bakhmut, Ukraine, Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Libkos)

French defense chief visits Ukraine, pledges more support

By Felipe Dana and Renata Brito and Angela Charlton - Associated Press

Young artists perform as people gather at the Christmas tree decorated for Christmas and the New Year festivities in Luhansk, the capital of Russian-controlled Luhansk region, eastern Ukraine, Friday, Dec. 23, 2022. (AP Photo)

Shells pummel Ukraine’s Kherson; 10 dead, 55 wounded

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Paul Whelan, a former U.S. Marine who was arrested for alleged spying, listens to the verdict in a courtroom at the Moscow City Court in Moscow, Russia, June 15, 2020. Brittney Griner is easily the most prominent American locked up by a foreign country. But the WNBA star’s case is tangled up with that of another prisoner few Americans have ever heard of. Paul Whelan has been held in Russia since his December 2018 arrest on espionage charges he and the U.S. government say are false. (Sofia Sandurskaya, Moscow News Agency photo via AP)

Griner thanks supporters, urges them to push for Whelan’s freedom

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy walk along the Colonnade of the White House, Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Hero’s welcome: Biden promises Zelenskyy U.S. backing for ‘as long as it takes’

By Ben Wolfgang and Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

A cross on the new tomb with the writing &quot;Unknown woman&quot; in a cemetery in Bakhmut, the site of the heaviest battles with the Russian invaders, in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, Sunday, Dec. 18, 2022. (AP Photo/LIBKOS)

Zelenskyy visits front, Putin praises troops in Kremlin

By E. Eduardo Castillo - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko shake hands during their meeting in St. Petersburg, Russia, Saturday, June 25, 2022. (Mikhail Metzel, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

A friend in need: Putin visits Belarus as Russia launches new drone strikes in Ukraine

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Planning for Ukraine Peace Illustration by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

What Ukraine needs to end the war

By Ilan Berman

Residents watch at a burning infrastructure project hit during a massive Russian drone night strike in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, Dec. 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Night-time drone attack hits Kyiv as Putin heads to Belarus

By Hanna Arhirova and Vailisa Stepanenko - Associated Press

Ukrainian State Emergency Service firefighters work to extinguish a fire at the building which was destroyed by a Russian attack in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, Friday, Dec. 16, 2022. Russian forces launched at least 60 missiles across Ukraine on Friday, officials said, reporting explosions in at least four cities, including Kyiv. At least two people were killed by a strike on a residential building in central Ukraine, where a hunt was on for survivors. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Dead boy pulled from rubble of latest Russian hit on Ukraine

By Jamey Keaten - Associated Press

An apartment burns after Russian shelling in Bakhmut, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2022. (AP Photo/LIBKOS)

Russia, Ukraine inch toward peace talks, but Moscow’s leverage vanishes as war drags on

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

In this handout photo released by Russian Emergency Ministry Press Service, smoke rises from the mall in Balashikha, just outside Moscow, Russia, Monday, Dec. 12, 2022. A massive fire has gutted a shopping mall on Moscow's eastern outskirts, the second such blaze in four days. Monday's blaze at the mall in Balashikha that trades in construction items and decorative materials first erupted at a storage area and later spread to part of the building. The fire teams managed to localize it at the area of about 3,000 square meters (about 32,300 square feet) and prevent it from engulfing the entire mall. (Russian Emergency Ministry Press Service via AP)

Fire engulfs another Moscow mall, 2nd such fire in 4 days

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Russian President Vladimir Putin arrives at his news conference after the Summit of the Intergovernmental Council of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Friday, Dec. 9, 2022. (Sergei Bobylev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Putin says Russia could adopt U.S. preemptive strike concept

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In this image taken from video provided by RU-24 Russian Television on Friday, Dec. 9, 2022, Russian citizen Viktor Bout who was exchanged for U.S. basketball player Brittney Griner, speaks in a Russian plane after a swap, in the airport of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Russian arms dealer Bout, who was released from U.S. prison in exchange for WNBA star Griner, is widely labeled abroad as the &quot;Merchant of Death&quot; who fueled some of the world's worst conflicts but seen at home as a swashbuckling businessman unjustly imprisoned after an overly aggressive U.S. sting operation. (RU-24 Russian Television via AP)

Russia’s Putin says more U.S. prisoner exchanges are possible

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