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FIM-92 STINGER MAN PORTABLE AIR-DEFENSE SYSTEM - Sgt. Zane Pettibone and Spc. Svenson Albert, a Stinger Man-Portable Air Defense System (MANPADS) team with 1st Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, conduct engagement sequences and the 13 critical checks of the Stinger Man-Portable Air Defense System (MANPADS), as part of the multinational live-fire training exercise Shabla 19, June 11, 2019. Shabla 19 is designed to improve readiness and interoperability between the Bulgarian Air Force, Navy and Land Forces, and the 10th Army Air and Missile Defense Command, U.S. Army Europe. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Thomas Mort)

The war in Ukraine continues; can the U.S. defense-industrial base keep up?

By Maiya Clark and Jacob Montoya - Special to The Washington Times

Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, and Russian President Vladimir Putin looks toward each other during their meeting in Beijing, China, on Feb. 4, 2022. China has described reports and images of civilian killings in Ukraine as disturbing, and urged that they be further investigated, even while declining to blame Russia. That's drawn questions about the resiliency of Beijing's support for Moscow, but speculation that it is weakening appears to be misplaced. (Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

State Department targets China’s pro-Moscow disinformation on Ukraine war

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

In this image provided by the U.S. Air Force, pallets of ammunition, weapons and other equipment bound for Ukraine are loaded on a plane by members from the 436th Aerial Port Squadron during a foreign military sales mission at Dover Air Force Base, Del., on Jan. 30, 2022. Western weaponry pouring into Ukraine helped blunt Russia's initial offensive and seems certain to play a central role in the approaching battle for Ukraine's contested Donbas region. Yet the Russian military is making little headway halting what has become a historic arms express. (Senior Airman Stephani Barge/U.S. Air Force via AP)

Senate Democrats raise concerns over U.S. arms holdups in Ukraine as Congress mulls additional aid

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Natalia Pototska, 43, cries as her grandson Matviy looks on in a car at a center for displaced people in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Monday, May 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Aid workers prep stretchers, toys for Mariupol evacuees

By Cara Anna and Yesica Fisch - Associated Press

French President Emmanuel Macron, left, greets German Chancellor Olaf Scholz during arrivals for an EU summit at the Chateau de Versailles, in Versailles, west of Paris, Thursday, March 10, 2022. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)

Macron talks to Putin as Germany’s Scholz shuns trip to Kyiv

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov attends a joint news conference with Eritrea Foreign Minister Osman Saleh Mohammed following their talks in Moscow, Russia, April 27, 2022. On Monday, May 2, 2022, Israel lashed out at Russia over “unforgivable” comments made in an interview with an Italian news channel by Lavrov about Nazism and antisemitism — including claims that Adolf Hitler was Jewish. Israel, which summoned the Russian ambassador in response, said the remarks blamed Jews for their own murder in the Holocaust. (Yuri Kochetkov/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Israel lashes out at Russia over Lavrov’s Nazism remarks

By Tia Goldenberg - Associated Press

In this photo released by the Office of the President of Poland U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, left, and Poland's President Andrzej Duda shake hands in Warsaw, Poland, Monday, May 2, 2022. (Marek Borawski/Office of the President of Poland)

Pelosi thanks Poland for Ukraine support, meets president

By Vanessa Gera - Associated Press

RPG shells lie in the hall of a destroyed school in Mariupol, in territory under the government of the Donetsk People's Republic, eastern Ukraine, Monday, May 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Alexei Alexandrov)

CIA seeks help from frustrated insiders as Putin’s Ukraine progress deemed ‘anemic’

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Irpin Territorial Defence and Ukrainian Army soldiers hold flowers to be placed on the graves of comrades fallen during the Russian occupation, at the cemetery of Irpin, on the outskirts of Kyiv, on Sunday, May 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Live updates l TASS: more than 1M Ukrainians taken to Russia

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov attends a joint news conference with Eritrea Foreign Minister Osman Saleh Mohammed following their talks in Moscow, Russia, April 27, 2022. On Monday, May 2, 2022, Israel lashed out at Russia over “unforgivable” comments made in an interview with an Italian news channel by Lavrov about Nazism and antisemitism — including claims that Adolf Hitler was Jewish. Israel, which summoned the Russian ambassador in response, said the remarks blamed Jews for their own murder in the Holocaust. (Yuri Kochetkov/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Israel decries Russian diplomat’s claim that Hitler ‘had Jewish blood’

By Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times

Russian servicemen guard an area in front of an Orthodox church in Berdyansk, in territory under the government of the Donetsk People's Republic, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, April 30, 2022. (AP Photo)

More than 25% of Russian units sent to Ukraine are ‘combat ineffective,’ British military says

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

In this image released by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office on Sunday, May 1, 2022, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, right, awards the Order of Princess Olga, the third grade, to U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, April 30, 2022. Pelosi, second in line to the presidency after the vice president, is the highest-ranking American leader to visit Ukraine since the start of the war, and her visit marks a major show of continuing support for the country's struggle against Russia. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)

First civilians leave Mariupol steel plant; hundreds remain

By Cara Anna and Inna Varenytsia - Associated Press

Oleksiy Onoschenko, 42, rescues books from his house destroyed during the Russian occupation in Irpin, in the outskirt of Kyiv, Ukraine on Saturday, April 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Live updates l Commander glad for steel mill evacuations

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

In this image released by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office on Sunday, May 1, 2022, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, right, awards the Order of Princess Olga, the third grade, to U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, April 30, 2022. Pelosi, second in line to the presidency after the vice president, is the highest-ranking American leader to visit Ukraine since the start of the war, and her visit marks a major show of continuing support for the country's struggle against Russia. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)

Pelosi leads congressional delegation in unannounced visit to Kyiv

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

A Shell chemical plant is illuminated in Wesseling, near Cologne, Germany, on April 6, 2022. Germany says its making progress on weaning itself off Russian fossil fuels and expects to be fully independent of crude oil imports from Russia by late summer. Economy and Climate Minister Robert Habeck on Sunday said Europes biggest economy has reduced the share of Russian imports in its energy consumption to 12 percent for oil, 8 percent for coal and 35 percent for natural gas. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, File)

German push to cut Russian energy dependence shows results

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

House Foreign Affairs Committee Ranking Member Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, questions Secretary of State Antony Blinken during a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday April 28, 2022, to review the U.S. Department of State's foreign policy priorities and fiscal year 2023 budget request. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

McCaul pushes for quick approval of additional Ukraine aid

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

The U.S. Capitol building is seen before sunrise on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, March. 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe, File)

Path forward for $33 billion Ukraine package muddled on Hill

By Haris Alic and Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

In this Tuesday, March 23, 2021 file photo, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to be the next Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), on Capitol Hill in Washington. Power landed Saturday, July 31, in Khartoum, aiming to support Sudan’s fragile transition to democracy before travelling to Ethiopia to press the government there to allow humanitarian aid to the war-torn Tigray region. (Greg Nash/Pool via AP, File)

USAID administrator warns of the war in Ukraine expanding into a global crisis

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

In this image released by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office on Sunday, May 1, 2022, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, right, awards the Order of Princess Olga, the third grade, to U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, April 30, 2022. Pelosi, second in line to the presidency after the vice president, is the highest-ranking American leader to visit Ukraine since the start of the war, and her visit marks a major show of continuing support for the country's struggle against Russia. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)

Battle for Mariupol back on after civilian convoy finally allowed out

By David R. Sands and Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Fragments of a Russian jet fighter on a private house in Chernihiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, April 6, 2022. Russia retreated from areas around Kyiv and the northern cities of Chernihiv and Sumy after talks with Ukraine in Turkey last week. (AP Photo/Stas Yurchenko)

‘Ghost of Kyiv’ revealed as super-hero legend concocted by Ukrainians

By Arijeta Lakja - Associated Press