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FILE - Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak, center back, and U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, back right, during a meeting of finance ministers from across the G7 nations at Lancaster House in London, on June 4, 2021. Finance ministers from the Group of Seven industrial powers have pledged to put in place a system designed to cap Russia’s income from oil sales, an idea the nations’ leaders had promised to explore in June. The aim is to reduce Russia’s revenues and, by doing so, its ability to fund its war in Ukraine, while also limiting the impact of the war on global energy prices. (Stefan Rousseau/Pool via AP, File)

G-7 pledges to move forward with Russia oil price cap system

By Geir Moulson and David McHugh - Associated Press

In this handout photo taken from video released by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Friday Sept. 2, 2022, munitions seen at the territory of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant as International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) members inspect the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Enerhodar, southeastern Ukraine Thursday, Sept. 1, 2022. A U.N. inspection team has arrived at Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant on a mission to safeguard it from catastrophe. It reached the site Thursday amid fighting between Russian and Ukrainian forces that prompted the shutdown of one reactor and underscored the urgency and the danger of the task. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)

Fighting goes on near Ukraine nuclear plant; IAEA on site

By Yesica Fisch - Associated Press

A Lukoil gas station sits in Newark, N.J., Thursday, March 3, 2022. Outraged by the invasion of Ukraine, the Newark City Council voted unanimously Wednesday to suspend the service stations’ operating licenses, citing Lukoil’s base in Moscow. In doing so, however, they may have predominantly been hurting Americans. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Report: Ravil Maganov, chairman of Russia’s Lukoil and war critic, dies after hospital window fall

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

A man cycles through a courtyard of the destroyed School Number 23 after a Russian attack occurred in the second half of July, in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, Saturday, Aug. 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Leo Correa) **FILE**

Forcible transfer of Ukrainians to Russia is abuse, human rights group says

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un shake hands during their meeting in Vladivostok, Russia, April 25, 2019. As the war in Ukraine stretches into its seventh month, North Korea is hinting at its interest in sending construction workers to help rebuild Russian-occupied territories in the country's east. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, Pool, File)

North Korea may send workers to Russian-occupied east Ukraine

By Kim Tong-Hyung - Associated Press

Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Mariano Grossi, right, walks in Kyiv, Ukraine, early Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022. The U.N. nuclear watchdog team set off on an urgent mission to safeguard the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia atomic power plant at the heart of fighting in Ukraine, a long-awaited trip the world hopes will help avoid a radioactive catastrophe. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

U.N. nuclear agency team arrives at Ukraine power plant

By Derek Gatopoulos - Associated Press

The Monument to the Liberators of Soviet Latvia and Riga from the German Fascist Invaders falls during its demolition in Riga, Latvia, Aug. 25, 2022. Russia's invasion of Ukraine has led to a renewed push to topple the last remaining monuments to the Soviet army that remained in Europe. At the end of the communist era, when Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia regained their independence from the Soviet Union, those countries began renaming streets and toppling statues of Lenin and other communist figures. But many memorials to the Red Army remained. (Kaspars Krafts/F64 via AP, File)

War protest: Statues fall as Europe purges Soviet monuments

By Vanessa Gera - Associated Press

Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Mariano Grossi, right, walks in Kyiv, Ukraine, early Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022. The U.N. nuclear watchdog team set off on an urgent mission to safeguard the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia atomic power plant at the heart of fighting in Ukraine, a long-awaited trip the world hopes will help avoid a radioactive catastrophe. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

U.N. inspectors head to Ukraine nuclear plant in war zone

By Derek Gatopoulos - Associated Press

Pope Francis speaks to cardinals in St. Peter's Basilica at The Vatican during a mass he celebrated for the newly-created cardinals, Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2022, that concludes a two-day consistory on the Praedicate Evangelium (Preach the Gospel) apostolic constitution reforming the Roman Curia which was promulgated in March. Francis created 20 new cardinals on Saturday. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Vatican: Pope clearly condemns Russia’s ‘repugnant’ war

By Frances D'Emilio - Associated Press

Vladimir, 66, stands next to the wreckage of his house after being bombed by Russians in Chernihiv, Ukraine, Monday, Aug. 29, 2022. On May 3, witnesses heard a plane approaching and dropping bombs that destroyed a large number of houses, including his own, killing five of his relatives who were sleeping at the time. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Eyes on Kherson as Ukraine claims bold move on Russians

By Paul Byrne - Associated Press

A Ukrainian serviceman collects fragments in the crater to determine the type of ammunition after a Russian attack that damaged some buildings in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2022. A surge in fighting on the southern front line and a Ukrainian claim of new attacks on Russian positions fed speculation Tuesday that a long-expected counteroffensive has started to try to turn the tide of the war. (AP Photo/Andrii Marienko)

Ukraine takes the fight to the enemy with offensive in south

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

In this handout photo released by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service, Troops disembark from a Chinese military helicopter during joint war games held by Russia and China held in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region in northwestern China on Friday, Aug. 13, 2021. Russia said Monday it will launch sweeping war games drills in the country's east that will involve forces from China — a show of increasingly close military ties between Moscow and Beijing amid tensions with the West over the Kremlin's action in Ukraine. (Savitskiy Vadim/Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP, File)

Russia to hold sweeping joint war games with China, others

By Vladimir Isachenkov - Associated Press

This composite of satellite images taken by Planet Labs PBC shows smoke rising from fires at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southeastern Ukraine on Thursday, Aug. 25, 2022. A team from the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency is expected to visit the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in Ukraine soon but more shelling was reported in the area overnight Friday, Aug. 26, 2022. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)

U.N. agency to inspect Ukraine nuclear plant in urgent mission

By Paul Byrne - Associated Press

FILE - Drivers for an oil delivery company fill their trucks at the Sprague terminal, on Jan. 16, 2014, in South Portland, Maine. Diesel and heating oil supplies in the Northeast are more than 50% below the recent average, raising concerns that an extreme weather event could cause supply disruptions, federal officials said. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)

Low fuel inventories cause special concern in U.S. Northeast

By David Sharp - Associated Press

A view of a crater from a night Russian rocket attack, near to damaged buildings in downtown Kharkiv, Ukraine, Saturday, Aug. 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrii Marienko)

Cities near Ukrainian nuclear plant shelled

By Yesica Fisch - Associated Press

A volunteer soldier holds up a drone used to release explosives at a training area outside Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, Aug. 27, 2022. Some volunteers signed up to join a Chechen unit that fights alongside the Ukrainian military. Fighters from Chechnya, the Russian republic in the North Caucasus, are participating on both sides of the conflict in Ukraine, with pro-Kyiv volunteers loyal to Dzhokhar Dudayev, the late Chechen leader who headed the republic's drive for independence from Russia. (AP Photo/Andrew Kravchenko)

Rival Chechen fighters take war to battlefields of Ukraine

By Derek Gatopoulos and Andrew Kravchenko - Associated Press

From right, Defense Ministers of Poland Mariusz Blaszczak, of Slovakia Jaroslav Nad and of Czech Republic Jana Cernochova answer questions to media after signing an air policing treaty at an airshow in Malacky, Slovakia, Saturday, Aug. 27, 2022. Poland and Czech Republic signed an agreement promising to protect Slovak airspace as Slovakia retires its old Soviet-mad MiG-29 jets at the end of this month. That protection is meant to last until Slovakia receives new F-16s from the United States, something expected in 2024. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

Poles, Czechs vow to protect Slovak airspace as MiGs retired

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Davyd kisses his girlfriend Olha, after meeting again following a wartime separation of more than three months, at the train station in Lviv, Ukraine, Saturday, Aug. 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Ukraine, Russia trade more blame on threats to nuclear plant

By Derek Gatopoulos - Associated Press

A man collects copper wires from the market that was destroyed after the Russian bombardment in Nikopol, Ukraine, Aug, 22, 2022. Ukrainians are once again anxious and alarmed about the fate of a nuclear power plant in a land that was home to the world’s worst atomic accident in 1986 at Chernobyl. The Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, Europe’s largest, has been occupied by Russian forces since early in the war, and continued fighting nearby has heightened fears of a catastrophe that could affect nearby towns in southern Ukraine or beyond. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)

IAEA mission seeks to visit Zaporizhzhia plant in Ukraine amid concerns

By Paul Byrne - Associated Press

A man walks on a pedestrian crossing point near the Dnipro river and Zaporizhzhya nuclear plant on the other side in Nikopol, Ukraine, Aug, 22, 2022. Ukrainians are once again anxious and alarmed about the fate of a nuclear power plant in a land that was home to the world’s worst atomic accident in 1986 at Chernobyl. The Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, Europe’s largest, has been occupied by Russian forces since early in the war, and continued fighting nearby has heightened fears of a catastrophe that could affect nearby towns in southern Ukraine or beyond. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)

Ukrainian nuclear plant temporarily cut off from power grid

By Frank Jordans and Hanna Arhirova - Associated Press