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Rescue workers clear rubble from an apartment building which was destroyed by a Russian rocket attack at residential neighbourhood in the southeastern city of Dnipro, Ukraine, Sunday, Jan. 15, 2023. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

At least 40 die in apartment strike, Russia seen readying long war

By By Vasilisa Stepanenko and Andrew Meldrum - Associated Press

Emergency workers clear the rubble after a Russian rocket hit a multistory building leaving many people under debris in Dnipro, Ukraine, Saturday, Jan. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Roman Chop)

‘Burn in hell, Russian murderers’: Ukraine mourns after more deadly apartment building attack

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Ms. Emine Dzhaparova, First Deputy Foreign Minister of Ukraine, speaks outside the Security Council chambers at United Nations headquarters, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Ukraine’s leader wants to visit U.N. on invasion anniversary

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press

Smoke billows during fighting between Ukrainian and Russian forces in Soledar, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2023. Soledar and Bakhmut again highlighted a bitter rift between the top military brass and Yevgeny Prigozhin, a rogue millionaire whose Wagner Group military contractor has played an increasing role in Ukraine. (AP Photo/Libkos, File)

Rifts in Russian military command seen amid Ukraine fighting

Associated Press

Businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin, left, shows Russian President Vladimir Putin, around his factory which produces school meals, outside St. Petersburg, Russia on Monday, Sept. 20, 2010. The fighting for Soledar and Bakhmut again highlighted a bitter rift between the top military brass and Yevgeny Prigozhin, a rogue millionaire whose Wagner Group military contractor has played an increasing role in Ukraine. (Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

Shadowy Putin confidant, soldiers-for-hire grab spotlight in Ukraine battle

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Ukrainian soldiers on their positions in the frontline near Soledar, Donetsk region, Ukraine, on Jan. 11, 2023. Russia's Defense Ministry said Friday Jan. 13, 2023, that its forces have captured the salt-mining town of Soledar. (AP Photo/Libkos, File)

Russia says it took Soledar in bloody fight in east Ukraine

By Andrew Meldrum - Associated Press

Ukrainian army Grad multiple rocket launcher fires rockets at Russian positions in the frontline near Soledar, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Libkos)

Russian forces press deadly assault for breakthrough in east

By Andrew Meldrum - Associated Press

Ukrainian servicemen prepare to fire a 120 mm mortar towards Russian positions at the frontline near Bakhmut, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Battle rages in Ukraine town; Russia shakes up its military

By Andrew Meldrum - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin leads a cabinet meeting via videoconference at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2023. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Putin replaces commander in Ukraine after only three months

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addresses a joint meeting of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, Dec. 21, 2022. President Joe Biden on Thursday, Dec. 29, signed a $1.7 trillion spending bill that will keep the federal government operating through the end of the federal budget year in September 2023, and provide tens of billions of dollars in new aid to Ukraine for its fight against the Russian military. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

House Republican proposes putting a bust of Ukraine leader in U.S. Capitol

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, left, and Chief of the Russian General Staff Valery Gerasimov attend the meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin during his visit to the joint staff of troops involved in Russia's military operation in Ukraine, at an unknown location, Saturday, Dec. 17, 2022. The chief of the military's General Staff, Gen. Valery Gerasimov, was named the new chief of the Russian forces in Ukraine. (Gavriil Grigorov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

Top Russian military officer put in charge of Ukraine action

By Vladimir Isachenkov - Associated Press

Demonstrators sing the national anthem during a protest in Odessa, Ukraine, Sunday, Feb. 20, 2022. The widespread resolve against Russia's invasion of Ukraine demonstrates the power of a unified response against human rights abuses, a leading watchdog group said Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023, and comes amid growing dissatisfaction with autocratic regimes, with protests in Iran, China and elsewhere. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti, File)

Rights group: Litany of crises in 2022 but also good signs

By Edna Tarigan and David Rising - Associated Press

Ukrainian servicemen fire by a Finnish 120 mm mortar toward Russian positions at the frontline near Bakhmut, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Grim Russian offensive makes Bakhmut unlikely focus of Ukraine war

By James Lechner - Special to The Washington Times

Illustration on the war in Ukraine by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Costs associated with U.S. not supporting Ukraine are steep

By Herman Pirchner and Jr.

Ukrainian military doctors treat their injured comrade who was evacuated from the battlefield at the hospital in Donetsk region, Ukraine, Monday, Jan. 9, 2023. The serviceman did not survive. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Russia intensifies Bakhmut attack in battle for control of eastern Ukraine

By Andrew Meldrum - Associated Press

U.S. Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, speaks during a Senate Rules and Administration Committee hearing to examine the Electoral Count Act, Aug. 3, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington. King said Monday, Jan. 9, 2023, that it would be a mistake for the U.S. to withdraw support of Ukraine. The senator, who sits on the armed services committee and recently visited Ukraine, said it would be similar to the U.S.'s failure to get involved in Europe previous to World War II. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)

Senator: Ending U.S. aid to Ukraine would be historic mistake

By Patrick Whittle - Associated Press

Municipal workers clear the rubble on the roof of College No. 47 which was damaged by a Russian rocket attack in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, Monday, Jan. 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Ukraine school rejects Russian claim of troops killed there

By Vasilisa Stepanenko - Associated Press

A destroyed bridge across Siverskyi-Donets river in the recently retaken village of Bogorodychne, Ukraine, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Russia claims deadly attack, but Kyiv denies anyone killed

By Hanna Arhirova - Associated Press

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

Volunteers help to reconstruct a house destroyed during a Russian attack on Dec. 31, 2022, before the start of the Orthodox Christmas, in 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. (AP Photo/Roman Hrytsyna)

Ukraine hails U.S. military aid as cease-fire said to falter

By Andrew Meldrum - Associated Press