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Blinken, Austin make stealth visit to Kyiv to meet with Zelenskyy; war in Ukraine enters third month

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Internally displaced people from Mariupol and nearby towns arrive at a refugee center fleeing from the Russian attacks, in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Thursday, April 21, 2022. Mariupol, which is part of the industrial region in eastern Ukraine known as the Donbas, has been a key Russian objective since the Feb. 24 invasion began. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Live updates | US convening talks on Ukraine’s defense needs

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Smoke rises after shelling in Mariupol, Ukraine, March 9, 2022. An Associated Press team of journalists was in Mariupol the day of the airstrike and raced to the scene. Their images prompted a massive Russian misinformation campaign that continues to this day. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)

Mariupol on the brink as Russians seek breakthrough

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Sergei, 11, waits his turn to receive donated food during an aid humanitarian distribution in Bucha, in the outskirts of Kyiv, on Tuesday, April 19, 2022. Citizens of Bucha are still without electricity, water and gas after more than 44 days since the Russian invasion began. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Live updates | US set to send more military aid to Ukraine

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny looks at photographers standing in the Babuskinsky District Court in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, Feb. 20, 2021. Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny threw a bombshell Wednesday April 20, 2022 into France's tight and tense presidential election campaign, alleging that Russian leader Vladimir Putin may have bought off French far-right candidate Marine Le Pen with a bank loan. Navalny offered no proof of his allegation, and made it clear he supports incumbent Emmanuel Macron. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

Russia’s Navalny accuses Le Pen of Kremlin ties before vote

By Elaine Ganley - Associated Press

Damaged and burned vehicles are seen at a destroyed part of the Illich Iron &amp; Steel Works Metallurgical Plant, as smoke rises from the Metallurgical Combine Azovstal during heavy fighting, in an area controlled by Russian-backed separatist forces in Mariupol, Ukraine, Monday, April 18, 2022. Mariupol, a strategic port on the Sea of Azov, has been besieged by Russian troops and forces from self-proclaimed separatist areas in eastern Ukraine for more than six weeks. (AP Photo/Alexei Alexandrov)

Live updates | Russia-Ukraine War

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Local civilians walk past a tank destroyed during heavy fighting in an area controlled by Russian-backed separatist forces in Mariupol, Ukraine, Tuesday, April 19, 2022. Taking Mariupol would deprive Ukraine of a vital port and complete a land bridge between Russia and the Crimean Peninsula, seized from Ukraine from 2014. (AP Photo/Alexei Alexandrov)

Russia captures first major city in eastern Ukraine as world grapples with war’s fallout

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

FILE - United States' Brittney Griner (15) plays during a women's basketball preliminary round game against Japan at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Friday, July 30, 2021, in Saitama, Japan. Griner went to Russia to earn extra money. But the experience has turned into a prolonged nightmare after she was arrested in February by police who reported finding vape cartridges allegedly containing cannabis oil in her luggage. She is awaiting trial on charges that could bring a prison term.(AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Griner detention spotlights the pull of higher pay for WNBA players in Russia

By David Brandt - Associated Press

Firefighters work to extinguish fire at an apartments building after a Russian attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Sunday, April 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Marienko)

Live Updates | Russians fight in streets of Ukrainian town

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Yehor, 7, stands holding a wooden toy rifle next to destroyed Russian military vehicles near Chernihiv, Ukraine, Sunday, April 17, 2022. Witnesses said multiple explosions believed to be caused by missiles struck the western Ukrainian city of Lviv early Monday as the country was bracing for an all-out Russian assault in the east. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Ukrainian governor: Russian strikes kill at least 6 in Lviv

By Yuras Karmanau - Associated Press

In this handout photo taken from a footage released by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on March 26, 2021, a Russian nuclear submarine breaks through the Arctic ice during military drills at an unspecified location. The West's cooperation with Moscow in the Arctic, already strained after years of Russian military buildup in the icy region, has now ground to a halt amid the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP) **FILE**

Frozen fallout: Ukraine invasion scrambles Arctic rush

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

A cat rests inside the grave of Lyudmyla Kononuchenko, 51, who was buried by family and friends after being hit by a rocket on March 23 during the war with Russia, in Irpin, in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, April 15, 2022. Kononuchenko's body was exhumed from her yard and taken to the morgue for analysis. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Ukraine war far from over as Russia renews strikes in Kyiv

By Adam Schreck and Mstyslav Chernov - Associated Press

The tail of a missile in a yard of a residential area in a village of Senkivka, near the Belarus border, Chernihiv region, Ukraine, Thursday, April 14, 2022. The fluid nature of the conflict, which has seen fighting shift away from areas around the capital and heavily toward Ukraine's east, has made the task of reaching hungry Ukrainians especially difficult. (AP Photo/George Ivanchenko)

Live Updates | Russian’s Good Friday role angers Ukrainians

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

A woman collects wooden planks in a street destroyed by shellings in Chernihiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, April 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Live Updates | Russia-Ukraine War

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

A man rides a bicycle past destroyed vehicles and an apartment building in Yahidne, near of Dnipro, Ukraine, Tuesday, April 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Live Updates | Russia-Ukraine War

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Ukrainian tanks move in a street in Irpin, in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, April 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Ukraine braces for Donbas battle as Moscow’s war effort faces new questions

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

In this photo taken on March 17, 2016, Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, poses with Col. Gen. Alexander Dvornikov during an awarding ceremony in Moscow's Kremlin, Russia. Russia has appointed a new Ukraine war commander. A top U.S. official on Sunday, April 10, 2022 said Russia named Gen. Dvornikov as commander of an armed campaign that Russian authorities still refer to as a special military operation." (Alexei Nikolsky/Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Russia shakes up military leadership, calls back veterans ahead of eastern Ukraine offensive

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting with members of the government via teleconference in Moscow, on March 10, 2022. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

Rethinking Russia: Failures in Ukraine dent military’s reputation but stoke fears of escalation

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

In this photo provided by China's Xinhua News Agency, Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, pose for photos with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, China, on Feb. 4, 2022. China has described reports and images of civilian killings in Ukraine as disturbing, and urged that they be further investigated, even while declining to blame Russia. That's drawn questions about the resiliency of Beijing's support for Moscow, but speculation that it is weakening appears to be misplaced. (Li Tao/Xinhua via AP, File)

State Department works to counter Ukraine disinformation from China

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

A completed resolution vote tally to affirm the suspension of the Russian Federation from the United Nations Human Rights Council is displayed during a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly, Thursday, April 7, 2022, at United Nations headquarters. UN General Assembly approved a resolution suspending Russia from the world body's leading human rights organization. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

U.N. gives Russia the boot from Human Rights Council over Ukraine

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times