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In this image released by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office on Sunday, May 1, 2022, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, centre right, and U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi shake hands during their meeting 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)

Zelenskyy praises Pelosi’s Ukraine visit as ‘powerful’ signal

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Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., speaks during a Senate Foreign Relations committee hearing in Washington, Tuesday, April 26, 2022. (Al Drago/Pool Photo via AP) **FILE**

Sen. Robert Menendez pledges action for Ukraine as lawmakers take up Biden aid package

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi of Calif., left, shakes hands with Ukrainian Ambassador Oksana Markarova, during an event unveiling a photography exhibit about the war in Ukraine, Thursday, April 28, 2022, at the Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Ukraine’s U.S. ambassador applauds Pelosi visit to Kyiv

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

In this July 27, 2021, file photo Rep. Adam Kinzingerr speaks before the House select committee hearing on the Jan. 6 attack on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Illinois Republican, who announced he won’t be running for reelection next year, has released a video featuring a family food-fighting over their political views. (Chip Somodevilla/Pool via AP, File) **FILE**

GOP Rep. Kinzinger suggests U.S. consider use of military if Russia escalates war in Ukraine

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Mariia Pachenko, top center, huddles with Ukrainian peers in prayer on April 8, 2022, as the group disbands after spending nearly a week together taking part in the National Model United Nations Conference in New York. (AP Photo/Bobby Caina Calvan)

For Ukrainian Model UN students, hopes dim for diplomacy

By Bobby Caina Calvan - Associated Press

People fleeing the village of Ruska Lozova wait at a screening point in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Friday, April 29, 2022. Hundreds of residents have been evacuated to Kharkiv from the nearby village that had been under Russian occupation for more than a month. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

Ukrainians plead for Mariupol rescue; Russian advance crawls

By Mstyslav Chernov and Yesica Fisch - Associated Press

A dog rides in the back of a car as people fleeing the village of Ruska Lozova arrive at a screening point in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Friday, April 29, 2022. Hundreds of residents have been evacuated to Kharkiv from the nearby village that had been under Russian occupation for more than a month. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

Live updates l Zelenskyy urges Russian troops not to fight

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Demining instructor Artur Tigani briefs a group of Ukrainian female emergency services personnel for specialist training in explosive ordnance disposal and survey training in the western Kosovo city of Peja on Monday, April 25, 2022. Six Ukrainian women have started to be trained in Kosovo to dispose of explosive ordnance that have contaminated their country invaded by Russia. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)

‘A huge demand’: Ukrainian women train to clear landmines

By Florent Bajrami - Associated Press

Clean-up crews prepare to work at the site of an explosion in Kyiv, Ukraine on Friday, April 29, 2022. Russia struck the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv shortly after a meeting between President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres on Thursday evening. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Ukraine: Attack on Kyiv was Putin’s ‘middle finger’ to UN

By David Keyton and Inna Varenytsia - Associated Press

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, left, talks with members of the Florida National Guard, Sunday, March 22, 2020, at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Fla. DeSantis held a news conference at the stadium where the National Guard opened a drive-thru testing site. On Sunday, they were only testing first responders. On Monday, they planned to expand it to people at least 65 years old who are showing symptoms of the illness. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Florida Guard reunite with Ukraine troops they left behind before Russian invasion

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

FILE - A man suspected to be a Russian collaborator is detained during an operation by Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Monday, April 18, 2022. Ukrainian authorities are cracking down on anyone suspected of aiding Russian troops under laws enacted by Ukraine’s parliament and signed by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy after the Feb. 24 invasion. Offenders face up to 15 years in prison for acts of collaborating with the invaders or showing public support for them. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File)

Ukraine cracks down on ‘traitors’ helping Russian troops

By Mstyslav Chernov and Yuras Karmanau - Associated Press

FILE - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, left, and his wife Olena Zelenska leave a booth at a polling station during a parliamentary election in Kiev, Ukraine, Sunday, July 21, 2019. Ukraine's first lady, Olena Zelenska, says that the war has not changed her husband, but only revealed his qualities, including a determination to prevail, to the world. Zelenska, speaking in an interview with the Polish newspaper Rzeczpospolita published Friday, April 29, 2022, also says she has not seen her husband since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)

War has shown Zelenskyy’s true qualities to all, wife says

By Vanessa Gera - Associated Press

In this image provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, right, and U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres leave a news conference during their meeting in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, April 28, 2022. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)

Live updates | US official: Ukraine resistance slows Russia

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, fourth left, is seen during his visit to Bucha, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, April 28, 2022. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Live updates | Russia-Ukraine War

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

President Joe Biden speaks during the 2022 National and State Teachers of the Year event in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, April 27, 2022. The Department of Homeland Security is stepping up an effort to counter disinformation coming from Russia as well as misleading information that human smugglers circulate to target migrants hoping to travel to the U.S.-Mexico border. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Biden asking Congress for $33 billion in emergency aid for Ukraine against Russian invasion

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Emergency services are working in the area following an explosion in Kyiv, Ukraine on Thursday, April 28, 2022. Russia struck the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv shortly after a meeting between President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres on Thursday evening. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Biden presses $33B aid package for Ukraine as Russia steps up bombardment in the east

By Jeff Mordock, Mike Glenn and Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

In this photo taken from video distributed by the Russian Defense Ministry Press Service, Intercontinental ballistic missiles are launched by the Vladimir Monomakh nuclear submarine of the Russian navy from the Sera of Okhotsk, Russia, Saturday, Dec. 12, 2020. The U.S. Navy nixed funding for the nuclear-armed sea-launched cruise missile (SLCM-N) in its budget request for the 2023 fiscal year as a result of the Pentagon’s five-year Nuclear Posture Review, creating what the head of U.S. Strategic Command Adm. Charles Richard called “a deterrence and assurance gap.” (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP, File) **FILE**

Russia’s nuclear threats put Navy nuke in spotlight

By Joseph Clark - 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)

Congress extends WWII-era lend-lease program to Ukraine

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

FILE - People crowd under a destroyed bridge as they try to flee, crossing the Irpin river on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 8, 2022. Russia's relentless digital assaults on Ukraine may have caused less damage than many anticipated. But most of its hacking is focused on a different goal that gets less attention but has chilling potential consequences: data collection. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File)

A chilling Russian cyber aim in Ukraine: Digital dossiers

By Frank Bajak - Associated Press

Canada's Minister of National Defense Anita Anand speaks during a news conference with Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin following their meeting at the Pentagon, Thursday, April 28, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Defense Secretary Austin, Canadian counterpart Anand back Ukraine support against Russia

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times