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In this handout photo released by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Saturday, Sept. 10, 2022, Russian soldiers prepare to fire from Msta-B 152.4 mm howitzer from their position at an undisclosed location in Ukraine. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)

Russian defense minister announces pullout of troops from key eastern Ukrainian towns

By Mica Soellner - The Washington Times

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, center, and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, arrive for a meeting of NATO ambassadors at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Friday, Sept. 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Olivier Matthys, Pool)

U.S., NATO note Ukraine army gains but see war dragging on

By Matthew Lee and Lorne Cook - Associated Press

FILE - Russian opposition activist and a municipal deputy of the Krasnoselsky district Ilya Yashin stands in a cage at a court room during a hearing on his detention the Basmanny district court in Moscow, July 13, 2022. Yashin, 39, is one of the few prominent opposition figures that refused to leave Russia despite the unprecedented pressure the authorities have mounted on dissent in recent years. A sharp critic of the Kremlin, a vocal ally of imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny and an uncompromising member of a Moscow municipal council, Yashin was arrested in June. (AP Photo/Dmitry Serebryakov, File)

Jailed Kremlin critic: Government has ‘failed to shut me up’

By Dasha Litvinova - Associated Press

Russian rockets launched against Ukraine from Russia's Belgorod region are seen at dawn in Kharkiv, Ukraine, early Friday, Sept. 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Vadim Belikov)

Ukrainian nuke plant operating tenuously as war persists

By Hanna Arhirova - Associated Press

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken stands near a damaged residential building during his visit the city of Irpin, Ukraine, Thursday, Sept. 8, 2022. (Genya Savilov, Pool Photo via AP)

New aid package latest sign U.S. is in it for the long haul in Ukraine

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Ukrainian army soldiers sit on an armour military vehicle as they drive in Bucha, near in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, Sept. 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Pentagon to deliver $675 million in military equipment to Ukraine in sign of long-term U.S. support

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

A man walks over debris of a psychiatric hospital that was heavily damaged after a Russian attack in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Ukraine energy chief: Russia trying to ‘steal’ nuclear plant

By Hanna Arhirova - Associated Press

Firefighters work to extinguish a fire, looking for potential victims after a Russian attack that heavily damaged a residential building in Sloviansk, Ukraine, Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Blinken, in Kyiv, unveils $2B in U.S. military aid for Europe

By Matthew Lee and Karl Ritter - Associated Press

Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, right, listen as President Joe Biden speaks during a Cabinet meeting at the White House, Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

U.S. approves up to $675M in further military aid to Ukraine

Associated Press

This satellite image from Planet Labs PBC shows the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant occupied by Russian forces, in Ukraine on Aug. 28, 2022. Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, built during the Soviet era and one of the 10 biggest in the world, has been engulfed by fighting between Russian and Ukrainian troops in recent weeks, fueling concerns of a nuclear catastrophe. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)

Shelling goes on near Ukraine nuclear plant, despite risks

By Yuras Karmanau - Associated Press

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen speaks during a media conference at EU headquarters in Brussels, Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2022. European Union countries should set a price cap on Russian gas and seek &quot;solidarity contribution&quot; from European oil and gas companies making extraordinary profit from market volatility sparked by the war in Ukraine, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

EU head proposes price cap on Russian gas amid Europe’s energy crisis

By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times

Indonesian Environment and Forestry Minister Siti Nurbaya Bakar delivers her remarks as ministers and delegates listen during the opening session of the G20 Environment and Climate Ministerial Meeting in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022. (Made Nagi/Pool Photo via AP)

Russia is unfit for the G-20

By Anthony Kim

People walk past a crater from an explosion that hit an area near the Ukrainian Red Cross Society during a Russian attack yesterday in Sloviansk, Ukraine, Monday, Sept. 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Once-mighty arms exporter, Russian military cuts deal to buy from Iran, North Korea

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin watches the Vostok 2022 (East 2022) military exercise in far eastern Russia, outside Vladivostok, on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022. The weeklong exercise that began Thursday is intended to showcase growing defense ties between Russia and China and also demonstrate that Moscow has enough troops and equipment to conduct the massive drills even as its troops are engaged in military action in Ukraine. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Putin attends joint military drills with China, others

By Vladimir Isachenkov - Associated Press

A Russian serviceman guards in an area of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station in territory under Russian military control, southeastern Ukraine, Sunday, May 1, 2022. Inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency visited the sprawling plant in southern Ukraine on Thursday, Sept. 1, 2022 The IAEA’s Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi highlighted the risks they had to deploy a team in the area amidst the war. (AP Photo, File)

‘Playing with fire’: U.N. inspectors express fears for Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant caught in war zone

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden speaks at a United Steelworkers of America Local Union 2227 event in West Mifflin, Pa., Monday, Sept. 5, 2022, to honor workers on Labor Day. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Biden refuses to designate Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Ukrainian soldiers fire, on the front line in the Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Sat. Sept. 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Kostiantyn Liberov)

Nuclear plant offline after Russian shelling, Ukraine says

By Hanna Arhirova - Associated Press

In this image made from video, a firefighter holds a kitten after rescuing it from a burning building in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Sunday, Sept. 4, 2022. Ukraine’s emergency services posted video to Facebook on Sunday showing the firefighters petting and cuddling the kitten as they carried it to safety. One said, “We found a beauty.&quot; Ukraine’s emergency services said the kitten’s paw needed medical attention. (State Emergency Service of Ukraine via AP)

‘We found a beauty’: Ukrainian firefighters save kitten from burning building

Associated Press

FILE - Russian soldiers patrol a destroyed part of the Illich Iron &amp; Steel Works Metallurgical Plant in Mariupol, in territory under the government of the Donetsk People's Republic, eastern Ukraine, Wednesday, May 18, 2022. Despite getting bogged down in Ukraine, the Kremlin has resisted announcing a full-blown mobilization, a move that could prove to be very unpopular for President Vladimir Putin. That has led instead to a covert recruitment effort that includes trying to get prisoners to make up for the manpower shortage. This photo was taken during a trip organized by the Russian Ministry of Defense. (AP Photo, File)

Morale and discipline problems with Russian troops in Ukraine, analysts say

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Girls play as a woman distributes iodine tablets to residents at a local school in case of a radiation leak in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Friday, Sept. 2, 2022. Heavy fighting continued Friday near Europe's largest nuclear power plant in a Russian-controlled area of eastern Ukraine, a day after experts from the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog agency voiced concerns about structural damage to the sprawling Zaporizhzhia site. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Ukraine’s nuclear plant partly goes offline amid fighting

By Yesica Fisch and Joanna Kozlowska - Associated Press