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A Ukrainian serviceman looks at the ruins of the sports complex of the National Technical University in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Friday, June 24, 2022, damaged during a night shelling. The building received significant damage. A fire broke out in one part but firefighters managed to put it out. (AP Photo/Andrii Marienko)

Ukrainians cheer nation’s EU candidacy amid wartime woes

By Francesca Ebel and John Leicester - Associated Press

A Ukrainian serviceman walks past a gypsum manufacturing plant destroyed in a Russian bombing in Bakhmut, eastern Ukraine, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, May 28, 2022. Fighting has raged around Lysychansk and neighbouring Sievierodonetsk, the last major cities under Ukrainian control in Luhansk region. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Ukrainian troops withdraw from Sievierodonetsk; Zelenskyy thanks Biden for extra assistance

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

FILE -- United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres addresses reporters during a news conference in New York, United States, Wednesday, June 8, 2022. The head of the United Nations has warned the world faces 'catastrophe' because of the growing shortage of food around the globe. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, file)

UN chief warns of ‘catastrophe’ from global food shortage

Associated Press

In this May 23, 2011, photo, a launch truck fires the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) produced by Lockheed Martin during combat training in the high desert of the Yakima Training Center, Wash. U.S. officials will send another $450 million in military aid to Ukraine, including some additional medium-range rocket systems. The latest package will include a number of High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, or HIMARS. (Tony Overman/The Olympian via AP) **FILE**

Ukrainian army to leave battered city to avoid encirclement

By David Keyton and John Leicester - Associated Press

An employee of the Romanian grain handling operator Comvex oversees the unloading of Ukrainian cereals from a barge in the Black Sea port of Constanta, Romania, Tuesday, June 21, 2022. While Romania has vocally embraced the ambitious goal of turning into a main hub for the export of agricultural products from Ukraine, economic experts and port operators in the country warn that it was much easier objective to set than to actually achieve. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Romanian port struggles to handle flow of Ukrainian grain

By Vadim Ghirda - Associated Press

Ukrainian soldiers camouflage a U.S.-supplied M777 howitzer with tree branches after they fired at Russian position in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region Saturday, June 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Russians focus firepower to seize 2 villages in east Ukraine

By John Leicester and David Keyton - Associated Press

The Madame Gu superyacht, owned by Russian parliamentarian Andrei Skoch, is docked at Port Rashid terminal, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Thursday, June 23, 2022. The sleek $156 million yacht belonging to Skoch, a sanctioned Russian oligarch and parliamentarian, is the latest reminder of how the sheikhdom has become a haven for Russian money amid Moscow's war on Ukraine. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

Sanctioned Russian oligarch yacht in Dubai as pressure grows

By Isabel Debre - Associated Press

From right, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, European Council President Charles Michel and French President Emmanuel Macron address a media conference at an EU summit in Brussels, Thursday, June 23, 2022. The European Union's leaders have agreed to make Ukraine a candidate for EU membership, setting in motion a potentially years long process that could draw the embattled country further away from Russia's influence and bind it more closely to the West. (AP Photo/Olivier Matthys)

Ukraine gets EU invite, in rebuke to Putin

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

A member of protocol sets out EU and other flags prior to arrivals for an EU summit in Brussels, Thursday, June 23, 2022. Leaders of the EU's 27 member states gather in Brussels for a two day meeting at which they will discuss granting EU candidate status to Ukraine and Moldova as well as meeting with Western Balkan countries. (AP Photo/Olivier Matthys)

Moldova, tiny, poor and bordering Ukraine, gets EU candidacy

By Stephen McGrath - Associated Press

Stay the Course in Ukraine war Illustration by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

NATO and the U.S. soften support for a Ukrainian victory

By L. Scott Lingamfelter

A security surveillance camera is seen near the Microsoft office building in Beijing, July 20, 2021. Coinciding with unrelenting cyberattacks against Ukraine, state-backed Russian hackers have engaged in “strategic espionage” against governments, think tanks, businesses and aid groups in 42 countries supporting Kyiv, Microsoft says in a new report. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

Microsoft: Russian cyber spying targets 42 Ukraine allies

By Frank Bajak - Associated Press

&quot;Buffalo,&quot; the name he uses as a soldier, walks in a treadmill at a clinic in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, June 17, 2022. &quot;Buffalo&quot; was at the Azovstal plant, in an underground bunker-turned-medical station that provided shelter from death and destruction above. He was among those in the list for evacuation after being shredded by mortar rounds, losing his left leg above the knee. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

‘The impossible’: Ukraine’s secret, deadly rescue missions

By John Leicester and Hanna Arhirova - Associated Press

People build a model of the business tower Lakhta Centre, at the headquarters of Russian gas monopoly Gazprom, filling the frame with stones, in St. Petersburg, Russia, Thursday, June 9, 2022. It's not a summer heat wave that's making European leaders and businesses sweat. It's fear that Russia's manipulation of natural gas supplies will lead to an economic and political crisis next winter. Or, in the worst case, even sooner. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky, File)

What’s next after Russia reduced gas to Europe?

Associated Press

A shopkeeper sells wheat flour in the Hamar-Weyne market in the capital Mogadishu, Somalia on May 26, 2022. &quot;Africa is actually taken hostage&quot; in Russia's invasion of Ukraine amid catastrophically rising food prices, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told the African Union during a closed-door address on Monday, June 20, 2022. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh, File)

Africa ‘taken hostage’ by Russia’s invasion, Zelenskyy says

By Cara Anna - Associated Press

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre listens as John Kirby, the National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications, speaks during a press briefing at the White House, Tuesday, June 21, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

White House warns Americans against going to fight in Ukraine

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

A teddy bear is seen on a building destroyed by attacks in Chernihiv, Ukraine, Sunday, June 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Russia pounds eastern Ukraine as Putin deploys more troops to the area

By John Leicester and David Keyton - Associated Press

Bidder Ole Bjorn Fausa, of Norway, holds the 1936 Nobel Peace Prize medal in Baltimore, March 27, 2014, the second Nobel Peace Prize ever to come to auction. The Nobel Peace Prize, won last October by Russian journalist Dmitri A. Muratov, will be offered at auction, Monday, June 20, 2022, with proceeds going to help children displaced by the war in Ukraine. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov sells Nobel Prize for Ukrainian children

By Bobby Caina Calvan

President Joe Biden stops and speaks to members of the media as he walks on the beach with his granddaughter Natalie Biden and daughter Ashley Biden, in Rehoboth Beach, Del., Monday, June 20, 2022. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Biden says a visit to Ukraine is not likely during his next trip abroad

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

People wait for gas pump in Hanoi, Vietnam Sunday, June 19, 2022. Across the globe, drivers are rethinking their habits and personal finances amid skyrocketing prices for gasoline and diesel, fueled by Russia's war in Ukraine and the global rebound from the COVID-19 pandemic. Energy prices are a key driver of inflation that is rising worldwide and making the cost of living more expensive.(AP Photo/Hau Dinh)

How much for gas? Around the world, pain is felt at the pump

By Daniel Niemann, Paola Corona, JadeLe Deley and Hau Dinh - Associated Press

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

U.S. needs to lose the sentimentality about the Ukraine war

By Michael McKenna