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A neighbor comforts Natalia Vlasenko, whose husband, Pavlo Vlasenko, and grandson, Dmytro Chaplyhin, called Dima, were killed by Russian forces, as she cries in her garden in Bucha, Ukraine, Monday, April 4, 2022. Russian soldiers picked up Dima during a March 4 sweep, accused him of being a spotter helping the Ukrainian military. Asked “What would justice be for you?,” the grandmother of 20-year-old Dima says, “I- I- I can’t even- I don’t know. These scoundrels…” (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File)

Evidence of Russian crimes mounts as war in Ukraine drags on

By Michael Biesecker and Erika Kinetz - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, seen onscreen, via a video conference at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Dec. 30, 2022. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Putin, Xi hold talks as Russia fires another Ukraine barrage

By Felipe Dana - Associated Press

Keep helping Ukraine

A local woman walks to the distribution point of humanitarian aid in front of housing which was damaged by Russian shelling in Kupiansk, Kharkiv region, Ukraine, Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Russia launches massive missile barrage across Ukraine

By Renata Brito and Hanna Arhirova - Associated Press

A smile and a wave from a Soviet soldier, as his armoured convoy makes its way back to the Soviet Union along a north Afghanistan highway, Feb. 7, 1989. Despite Afghanistan's reputation as "the graveyard of empires," the Soviet Union sent in troops in 1979, quickly assassinating the country's leader and moving to install a compliant successor. More than 14,000 Soviet Army troops died in the conflict that seriously eroded the image of Soviet military superiority. (AP Photo/Boris Yurchenko, File)

Fallen colossus: USSR’s terror, triumphs began 100 years ago

By Jim Heintz - Associated Press

Smoke billows after Russian attacks in the outskirts of Bakhmut, Ukraine, Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Libkos)

French defense chief visits Ukraine, pledges more support

By Felipe Dana and Renata Brito and Angela Charlton - Associated Press

Ukrainian servicemen carry the coffin of their comrade during the funeral ceremony for Volodymyr Yezhov killed in a battlefield with Russian forces, at St. Volodymyr Cathedral in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2022. Yezhov was a game designer in the development of the game Cossacks 2. He was also one of the authors of the game S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky. Yezhov was also one of the most famous Ukrainian e-sportsmen — played StarCraft under the nickname Fresh. Since the Russian invasion, Volodymyr Yezhov went to the frontline and fought as part of the volunteer squadron. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Concessions refusals block any hope for Russia-Ukraine peace talks

By Ben Wolfgang and Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Russian recruits walk to take a train at a railway station in Prudboi, Volgograd region of Russia, Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022. Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered a partial mobilization of reservists to beef up his forces in Ukraine. With the Russian army retreating under the blows of Ukrainian forces armed with Western weapons, Putin raised the stakes by annexing four Ukrainian regions and declaring a partial mobilization of up to 300,000 reservists to buttress the crumbling frontline. (AP Photo, File)

Russian soldier beats own officer to death

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Illustration on Iran and Kazakhstan by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Kazakhstan faces challenging times and deserve U.S. support

By Kamran Bokhari

Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukrainian minister of digital transformation, poses for a photo illuminated by a lamp in the shape of a Ukrainian trident, a national symbol, in his office in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2022. The Ukrainian government minister in charge of technology says his country has bought some 1,400 drones, mostly for reconnaissance, and is now developing air-to-air combat ones that can attack the drones Russia is using against Ukrainians. In a recent interview with The Associated Press, Mykhailo Fedorov, (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

Minister: Ukraine aims to develop air-to-air combat drones

By Hanna Arhirova - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko on the sidelines of an informal meeting of the heads of ex-Soviet nations which are members of the Commonwealth of Independent States at the State Russian Museum, in St. Petersburg, Russia, Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2022. (Alexey Danichev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Putin ‘misleading’ in comments about Ukraine war negotiations

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Illustration on the Ukraine war by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Strategery 101: When enemy Russia attacks friend Ukraine, back the friend

By Clifford D. May

Illustration on "Kidults" (adults that want to stay children) by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

The rise of ‘kidults’ and their infantile fascinations

By R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.

Ukrainian servicemen hold a flag over the coffin of their comrade during the funeral ceremony of Volodymyr Yezhov killed in a battlefield with Russian forces at St. Volodymyr Cathedral in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2022. Yezhov was a game designer in the development of the game Cossacks 2. He was also one of the authors of the game S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky. Yezhov was also one of the most famous Ukrainian e-sportsmen — played StarCraft under the nickname Fresh. Since the Russian invasion, Volodymyr Yezhov went to the frontline and fought as part of the volunteer squadron. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Lavrov: Ukraine must demilitarize or Russia will do it

By E. Eduardo Castillo - Associated Press

Ukrainian soldiers fire a French-made CAESAR self-propelled howitzer towards Russian positions near Avdiivka, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Monday, Dec. 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Libkos)

Russia says it shot down Ukrainian drone near airbase

By E. Eduardo Castillo and Hanna Arhirova - Associated Press

No negotiating with communists

In this image released by the U.S. Department of Defense, German soldiers assigned to Surface Air and Missile Defense Wing 1, fire the Patriot weapons system at the NATO Missile Firing Installation, in Chania, Greece, on Nov. 8, 2017. Patriot missile systems have long been a hot ticket item for the U.S. and allies in contested areas of the world as a coveted shield against incoming missiles. In Europe, the Middle East and the Pacific, they guard against potential strikes from Iran, Somalia and North Korea. So it was a critical turning point when news broke this week that the U.S. has agreed to send a Patriot missile battery to Ukraine. (Sebastian Apel/U.S. Department of Defense, via AP, File)

Putin vows to destroy every U.S.-supplied Patriot missile in Ukraine

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Relatives of soldiers from the Azov Regiment, who were captured by Russia in May after the fall of Mariupol, sit at the Christmas table in a flashmob action under the Christmas tree demanding to free the prisoners, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, Dec. 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Some Ukrainians move up Christmas to part ways with Russia

By Renata Brito and Hanna Arhirova - Associated Press

Ukrainian servicemen from 127 brigade prepare a telescopic tower with a remote camera installed on a Soviet car "Volga" that was recast to observe and correct fire on the front line near Kharkiv, Ukraine, Sunday, Dec. 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Putin claims Moscow ready for Ukraine talks as attacks go on

Associated Press

In this photo released by the Russian Foreign Ministry Press Service, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, left, and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi pose for a photo prior to their talks on the sideline of the 12th East Asia Summit foreign ministers' meeting in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on Aug. 5, 2022. Wang defended his country's position on the war in Ukraine on Sunday, Dec. 25, and signaled that China would deepen ties with Russia in the coming year while striving to bring U.S.-China ties back on the right course. (Russian Foreign Ministry Press Service via AP, File)

China’s foreign minister signals deeper ties with Russia

Associated Press