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In this Friday, Jan. 17, 2020 file photo, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova gestures as she attends Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's annual roundup news conference summing up his ministry's work in 2019, in Moscow, Russia. On June 11, 2020, Ms. Zakharova said in response to the news that President Trump is withdrawing some troops from Germany that “we would welcome any steps by Washington to scale down its military presence in Europe.” (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File) **FILE**

Russia welcomes prospect of U.S. troop pullback from Germany

Associated Press

A dog looks out of the car window as people enjoy a warm weather at Patriarch Ponds in Moscow, Russia, Monday, June 8, 2020. The Russian capital is ending a tight lockdown that has been in place for more than two months, citing a slowdown in the coronavirus outbreak. Moscow's mayor said that starting Tuesday residents will no longer be required to obtain electronic passes for travel and can walk, use public transport and drive without any restrictions. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

Moscow lifts lockdown restrictions amid virus concerns

By DARIA LITVINOVA - Associated Press

Seagulls sit on the head of a sculpture of Russian poet Aleksander Pushkin on the day of his 221st birthday in Naziya village, 80 km (50 miles) east of St. Petersburg, Russia, Saturday, June 6, 2020. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)

Moscow book fair brings out Pushkin fans, lockdown-weary

By JIM HEINTZ - Associated Press

Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., questions Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Laura Cooper and State Department official David Hale as they testify before the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2019, during a public impeachment hearing of President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) ** FILE **

Eric Swalwell battles with Richard Grenell on Twitter about Trump-Russia collusion

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

A woman wearing a face mask to protect to coronavirus plays accordion to get some money in Mytishchi, just outside Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, May 27, 2020. The coronavirus outbreak has badly hurt Russia's economy, already weakened by a drop in global oil prices and Western sanctions. According to government statistics, unemployment has jumped to 4.3 million people in April, the highest number since 2016. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Moscow updates coronavirus statistics to show more deaths

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin watches a navy exercise from the Marshal Ustinov missile cruiser in the Black Sea in , Crimea, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2020. The drills involved warships and aircraft that launched missiles at practice targets. (Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Mike Pompeo: Russia using Open Skies Treaty for data on cruise missile targets

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

In this photo taken from video footage, nurses and orderlies walk to meet journalists in front of a hospital in Russia's Siberian city Chita, Russia, Saturday, May 16, 2020. Dozens of medical workers all across the country, from Siberia to southern Russia, made similar videos over the weekend, demanding the bonuses President Vladimir Putin promised them for working with coronavirus patients. Many said they had received 10 to 100 times less than was promised. (AP Photo/Konstantin Vasilyev)

‘We’re expendable’: Russian doctors face hostility, mistrust

By Daria Litvinova - Associated Press

In this June 28, 2019, file photo, President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin walk to participate in a group photo at the G20 summit in Osaka, Japan. The Trump administration is notifying international partners that it is pulling out of a treaty that permits 30-plus nations to conduct unarmed, observation flights over each other’s territory — overflights set up decades ago to promote trust and avert conflict. The administration says it wants out of the Open Skies Treaty because Russia is violating the pact and imagery collected during the flights can be obtained quickly at less cost from U.S. or commercial satellites. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File) **FILE**

Donald Trump to pull U.S. out of Open Skies Treaty

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

Beaten Bear Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Saudis called Putin’s bluff in oil war and Russia lost

By Sam Faddis

German Chancellor Angela Merkel takes questions as part of a meeting of the German federal parliament, Bundestag, at the Reichstag building in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, May 13, 2020. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

Angela Merkel, German chancellor: ‘Hard evidence’ implicates Russia in hack of German parliament

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with representatives of the Russian aviation industry via teleconference at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, May 13, 2020. (Alexei Nikolsky, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Russia suspends use of ventilator model involved in fatal fires

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov adjusts his tie prior to Russian President Vladimir Putin and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's meeting in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2020. Netanyahu visited Moscow to discuss the U.S. Mideast peace plan with Putin and take an Israeli woman who had been jailed in Russia back home. (Maxim Shemetov/Pool Photo via AP)

Russian president’s spokesman hospitalized with coronavirus

By DARIA LITVINOVA - Associated Press

In this photo taken on Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2019 and provide by the Alfred-Wegener-Institute show the German Arctic research vessel Polarstern in the ice next to a research camp Ocean City in the Arctic region. Germany's Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Ocean Research says the expedition ship RV Polarstern will leave its position in the high Arctic for three weeks to rendezvous with two vessels bringing fresh supplies and crew. (Michael Gutsche/Alfred-Wegner-Institut via AP)

Pentagon Arctic strategy lacks vision to counter China, Russia, critics say

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

In this May 5, 2020, frame from video, Alfred Abayev, head of a volunteer group searching for remains of the WW II Red Army soldiers, right, looks at projectile left on a WW II battlefield near Khulkhuta in the province of Kalmykia in southern Russia. The search is part of a broad effort by myriad volunteer groups across the country to pay tributes to the fallen WW II soldiers. (AP Photo/Radik Nurmukhamedov)

Russian volunteers search for fallen World War II soldiers

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV and ALYONA OSIPOVA - Associated Press

FILE - In this file photo taken on Friday, April 3, 2020, a worker covers the statue of a Soviet World War II commander Marshall Ivan Stepanovic Konev for removal from its site in Prague, Czech Republic. Relations between the Czech Republic and Russia have taken a turn for the worse in a series of disputes over the interpretation of historical events. Three Prague politicians whose recent actions upset Russia have been placed under police protection amid a media report that Russian intelligence services have been plotting to poison them with the deadly toxin ricin. Russia has opened a criminal investigation into Prague's removal of a war memorial to a World War II hero, among other actions that have tested diplomatic ties. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek/File)

Czech-Russian relations plunge amid differences over history

By KAREL JANICEK - Associated Press

Marshall Billingslea, the administration’s presidential envoy for arms control, said, “I am not going to be railroaded by the Russians or Chinese.” (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, file)

Marshall Billingslea says New START fate hangs on China

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

A medical worker wearing protective equipment sprays disinfectant at his ambulance after delivering a patient suspected of being infected with the coronavirus to the Pokrovskaya hospital in St.Petersburg, Russia, Monday, May 4, 2020. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)

Russian doctors fall from hospital windows amid coronavirus

By Daria Litvinova - Associated Press

FILE - This Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2018 file photo, shows a view of the building of Russia's national drug-testing laboratory in Moscow, Russia. Another wave of Russian athletes could face new doping charges after the World Anti-Doping Agency said Thursday April 30, 2020, it completed its investigation of a vast trove of evidence. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

FIFA expects to get evidence in May of Russian doping cases

Associated Press

The Duke-class frigate HMS Kent (F78) takes part in a replenishment-at-sea with Supply-class fast combat support ship USNS Supply (T-AOE-6) whilst on exercise with the U.S. Navy in the Arctic Circle. The exercises have been taking place in the Arctic Circle where, with added wind chill, the temperatures plummeted to a jarring minus 10 degrees centigrade. HMS Kent has been conducting maritime patrol duties in and around the U.K. before she met with the U.S. task group and will continue the exercises with her closet allies before she will return to her home port to 'thaw out' and have essential maintenance carried out.

Navy’s sail-through in Arctic sends message to Russia

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

In this photo taken on Monday, April 27, 2020, volunteer Nadezhda Minyaeva, wearing a face mask and gloves to protect from coronavirus, walks with Russian pensioner Margarita Donchenko's dog in a courtyard outside of the apartment building in Moscow, Russia. Donchenko knows how much attention a dog needs and she is glad that when she can't give her fluffy little black-and-white pooch what she needs, there's volunteer Nadezhda Minyaeva to show up once a day for a walk. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Amid Moscow lockdown, some dogs find new homes and friends

By KIRILL ZARUBIN - Associated Press