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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 traditional fishing boat sales in the Aegean Sea near cape Sounion, Greece, on Tuesday, June 15, 2021. Wooden boats are an integral part of the Greek landscape, adorning tourist brochures, postcards and countless holiday snaps. But the art of designing and building these vessels, done entirely by hand, is under threat. Fewer people order wooden boats since plastic and fiberglass ones are cheaper to maintain. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

NATO could become distracted with an Aegean sea crisis

By John Sitilides

In this file photo taken on June 24, 2020, Russian RS-24 Yars ballistic missiles roll in Red Square during the Victory Day military parade in Moscow, Russia. Russia's nuclear warheads cache — the largest in the world at more than 6,200, according to figures compiled by the Arms Control Association — has added an untold level of danger and complexity to the current military campaign in Ukraine. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

Nuclear weapons a looming threat as war against Ukraine enters third week

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

In this June 17, 2021, file photo Senate Health Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee ranking member Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., speaks during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. Burr and his brother-in-law are being investigated by the Securities and Exchange Commission for potential insider trading, a case that stems from their abrupt sales of financial holdings during the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, according to recent federal court filings. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Republicans say Biden administration abused intelligence to cancel Polish jet offer

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

FILE - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks during a media conference at the Europa building in Brussels, June 5, 2019. Russia lost influence and friends since the collapse of the Soviet empire in 1989. But the nuclear superpower still holds sway over several of its neighbors in Europe and keeps others in an uneasy neutrality. The Russian invasion of neighboring Ukraine and the humanitarian tragedy it provoked over the past two weeks may have raised an Western outcry of heartfelt support. (AP Photo/Riccardo Pareggiani, File)

A way forward for Ukraine

By David L. Phillips

Andrei Sakharov: Second Coming to His Homeland and the World (sponsored)

On the edge of the abyss

By Edward Lozansky

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks while meeting with Bahrain's Crown Prince and Prime Minister, Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, March 4, 2022, in her ceremonial office at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington. Harris heads to Warsaw on Wednesday in what is supposed to be an opportunity to display the Biden administration’s thanks to Poland for taking in hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians fleeing their country after the Russian invasion. Instead, she finds herself parachuting into the middle of unexpected diplomatic turbulence. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Harris heads to Poland amid turbulence over jets for Ukraine

By Aamer Madhani - Associated Press

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, and Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas pose for photographers on the occasion of their meeting, in Tallinn, Estonia, on Tuesday, March 8, 2022. Blinken was meeting with senior Estonian officials in Tallinn on Tuesday, a day after hearing appeals from both Lithuania and Latvia for more support and greater U.S. and NATO troop presence to deter a feared Russian intervention. (AP Photo/Raul Mee)

Blinken wraps up Baltic assurance tour as Ukraine war rages

By Matthew Lee - Associated Press

Ukrainians cross an improvised path under a destroyed bridge while fleeing Irpin, in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 8, 2022. Demands for ways to safely evacuate civilians have surged along with intensifying shelling by Russian forces, who have made significant advances in southern Ukraine but stalled in some other regions. Efforts to put in place cease-fires along humanitarian corridors have repeatedly failed amid Russian shelling. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

Some civilians escape Ukraine as Pentagon nixes Polish jet offer

By Guy Taylor and Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

In this file photo, two Polish Air Force Russian-made MiG-29's fly above and below two Polish Air Force U.S. made F-16's fighter jets during the Air Show in Radom, Poland, on Aug. 27, 2011. The Polish government said on March 8, 2022, that it is prepared to hand over its entire fleet of MiG-29 fighters to the United States for possible use in Ukraine, so long as Washington and its NATO allies provide Warsaw with comparable combat aircraft. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz, File) ** FILE **

Poland offers to hand over MiG jet fighters to U.S. for use by Ukraine

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

In this file photo, two Polish Air Force Russian-made MiG-29's fly above and below two Polish Air Force U.S. made F-16's fighter jets during the Air Show in Radom, Poland, on Aug. 27, 2011. The Polish government said on March 8, 2022, that it is prepared to hand over its entire fleet of MiG-29 fighters to the United States for possible use in Ukraine, so long as Washington and its NATO allies provide Warsaw with comparable combat aircraft. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz, File) ** FILE **

‘Not tenable’: Pentagon rejects Poland’s offer to provide fighter jets for Ukraine

By Vanessa Gera and Ellen Knickmeyer - 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

FILE - A woman walks in front of the destroyed former Serbian army headquarters in Belgrade, Serbia, on March 24, 2010. Well before Russian tanks and troops rolled into Ukraine, Vladimir Putin was using the bloody breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s to ostensibly offer justification for the invasion of a sovereign European country. The Russian president has been particularly focused on NATO’s bombardment of Serbia in 1999 and the West’s acceptance of Kosovo’s declaration of independence in 2008. He claims both created an illegal precedent that shattered international law and order, apparently giving him an excuse to invade Ukraine. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic, File)

Putin’s Balkan narrative argument for Ukraine war

By Dusan Stojanovic - Associated Press

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, right, poses with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg during a an extraordinary NATO foreign ministers meeting at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Friday, March 4, 2022. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets Friday with his counterparts from NATO and the European Union, as Russia's war on Ukraine entered its ninth day marked by the seizure of the strategic port city of Kherson and the shelling of Europe's largest nuclear power plant. (Olivier Douliery, Pool Photo via AP)

Why a NATO no-fly zone over Ukraine is a dangerous idea

By Ivan Eland

Finland's President Sauli Niinisto, right, is greeted by U.S. Chief of Protocol Rufus Gifford, as Niinisto arrives to the White House, Friday, March 4, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Biden praises Finland as a strong partner to NATO, as Nordic country mulls membership

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

U.S. troops load equipment onto vehicles in Rzeszow, Poland, on Saturday, Feb. 19, 2022. The U.S. has recently sent nearly 5,000 troops to NATO ally Poland, in addition to the 4,000 that are on a permanent rotation in Poland. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski) ** FILE **

On NATO’s eastern flank, subtle and not-so-subtle reminders of the war next door

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

President Vladimir Putin speaks to employees at the Energomash, leading Russian rocket engine company, in Moscow, Russia, Friday, April 12, 2019. Putin visited the factory on the Cosmonauts Day, a holiday marking Yuri Gagarin's pioneering flight to space, to promise that the government would earmark funds to develop new rocket technologies. (Alexei Nikolsky, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

What does Putin want? Lack of clear endgame hovers over fierce Ukraine fighting

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

This photo provided Wednesday, March 2, 2022, by the French Army shows tanks going into a cargo plane to Romania, Tuesday, March 1, 2022, at the Istres military base, southern France. France announced last week it will deploy 500 troops with armored vehicles as part of NATO forces to Romania after Russia's invasion of neighboring Ukraine. (Etat Major des Armees via AP)

First troops from NATO response force arrive in Eastern Europe

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Finland's Prime Minister Sanna Marin, right, and Defence Minister Antti Kaikkonen attend a press conference of the Finnish government in Helsinki, Monday, Feb. 28, 2022. Finland has decided to deliver arms assistance to Ukraine. (Jussi Nukari/Lehtikuva via AP)

Neutral Finland, Sweden warm to idea of NATO membership

By Jari Tanner - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin enters a hall to chair a Security Council meeting in Moscow, Russia, on Feb. 25, 2022. Putin is raising fears that he has become more reckless, more committed to restoring the USSR, perhaps more likely to set off a world-altering war. There's no way to determine from a distance whether the Russian president is becoming unstable or if he is simply preying on the West's fears. (Alexei Nikolsky, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

Putin nuclear threat part of new escalation policy

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times