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Vice President Joe Biden speaks at the Atlantic Council's conference, in a special tribute to NATO and the European Union, Wednesday, April 30, 2014, in Washington. Biden drew parallels between Russia's interference in Ukraine and the world wars of the last century. Biden said Ukraine's struggles start with Russia's acute violation of rules that the 20th century taught us must be upheld. He says Russia has violated the fundamental principle that Europe's borders cannot be changed by military force. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

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Concerns that the government of Russian President Vladimir Putin is exacerbating the widening destabilization of Ukraine has drawn a U.S. military presence to provide a show of force and contain the crisis. (Associated Press)

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A Ukrainian journalist shows a photograph of Igor Strelkov, a military commander of pro-Russian militias in Slovyansk, to his supposed neighbors in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, April 29, 2014. Camera crews swarmed around an apartment building that Ukrainian TV reported to be home to the commander’s mother. Neighbors told The Associated Press that a “fancy black car” had turned up Tuesday morning to whisk the woman away. Strelkov, speaking in Slovyansk, strengthened the case that Russia is behind the turmoil that is rocking the eastern part of the country. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)