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China and Russia: Putin’s pal, Chinese President Xi Jinping Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Xi Jinping: Vladimir Putin’s silent partner

By Jed Babbin

Residents look at their house destroyed by a Russian bomb in Chernihiv on Friday, April 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Ukraine: Russians try to storm Mariupol plant, strike Odesa

By David Keyton and Yesica Fisch - Associated Press

Secretary of State Antony Blinken, second from left, speaks during his meeting with Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal at the State Department in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, Pool)

Zelenskyy: Austin, Blinken to visit Kyiv Sunday

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Firefighters work inside a building destroyed by a Russian bomb in Chernihiv on Friday, April 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Live updates | Zelenskyy: Russia covering up civilian deaths

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Russian military vehicles move on a highway in an area controlled by Russian-backed separatist forces near Mariupol, Ukraine, Monday, April 18, 2022. Mariupol, a strategic port on the Sea of Azov, has been besieged by Russian troops and forces from self-proclaimed separatist areas in eastern Ukraine for more than six weeks. (AP Photo/Alexei Alexandrov)

Ukrainian leader Zelenskyy: Russia rejects push for an Orthodox Easter truce

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

FILE - Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, speaks to the media about the Tigray region of Ethiopia during a press conference at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Nov. 3, 2021. The United Nations' human rights office on Friday, April 21, 2022 set out what it said is growing evidence of war crimes since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, declaring that international humanitarian law appears to have been “tossed aside.” Michelle Bachelet said that “our work to date has detailed a horror story of violations perpetrated against civilians.”(Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP, File)

U.N. rights chief sees ‘horror story’ of violations in Ukraine

Associated Press

Ambulance paramedics move a civilian wounded in shelling onto a stretcher to a maternity hospital converted into a medical ward in Mariupol, Ukraine, March 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)

Lawmakers want US to set up field hospitals for Ukraine

By Nomaan Merchant - Associated Press

FILE - Vladimir Kara-Murza, Russian opposition activist, arrives to lay flowers near the place where Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov was gunned down, in Moscow, Russia, on Feb. 27, 2021. Russian authorities have opened a criminal case against prominent opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza Jr. for allegedly spreading &quot;false information&quot; about the country's armed forces, his lawyer said Friday. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

Kremlin pursues more cases against critics of Ukraine war

Associated Press

In this image provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, center, and Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson, center left, walk in downtown Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, April 9, 2022. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)

U.K. to reopen embassy in Kyiv in Ukraine

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Ukrainian National Guard, Armed Forces, special operations units exercise as they simulate a crisis situation in an urban settlement, in the abandoned city of Pripyat near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, Ukraine, Feb. 4, 2022. When fighting from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine resulted in power cuts to the critical cooling system at the closed Chernobyl nuclear power plant, some feared that spent nuclear fuel would overheat. But nuclear experts say there’s no imminent danger because time and physics are on safety's side. (AP Photo/Mykola Tymchenko) **FILE**

Ukraine’s battlefield success no surprise to their National Guard trainers in U.S.

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Internally displaced people from Mariupol and nearby towns arrive at a refugee center fleeing from the Russian attacks, in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Thursday, April 21, 2022. Mariupol, which is part of the industrial region in eastern Ukraine known as the Donbas, has been a key Russian objective since the Feb. 24 invasion began. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Live updates | US convening talks on Ukraine’s defense needs

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Firefighters work inside a building destroyed by a Russian bomb in Chernihiv on Friday, April 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Russian general hints at broadening war aims

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban arrives at the Vatican to meet Pope Francis, Thursday, April 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Hungary’s Orban meets pope with Ukraine war as backdrop

By Nicole Winfield and Justin Spike - Associated Press

President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Thursday, April 21, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden sends $800M in additional military aid to Ukraine, bans Russian ships from U.S. ports

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Fragments of a destroyed Russian military vehicle lie against the background of an Orthodox church in the village of Lypivka close to Kyiv, Ukraine, on April 11, 2022. Lypivka was occupied by the Russian troops at the beginning of the Russia-Ukraine war and freed recently by the Ukrainian army. Many Americans continue to question whether President Joe Biden is showing enough strength in response to Russia’s war against Ukraine, even as most approve of steps the U.S. is already taking and few want U.S. troops to get involved in the conflict. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)

Many say Biden not tough enough on Russia: AP-NORC poll

By Nomaan Merchant and Hannah Fingerhut - Associated Press

Ukrainian soldiers walk on a destroyed bridge in Irpin, on the outskirts of Kyiv, on Wednesday, April 20, 2022. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Live updates | Russia-Ukraine War

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

A Ukrainian soldier carries an unexploded Russian air bomb in the village of Kolonshchyna, Ukraine, Thursday, April 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Biden sends more guns, money to Ukraine as Putin tries to reboot invasion

By Tom Howell Jr. and Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen speaks to the Atlantic Council, Wednesday, April 13, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Yellen says new $500M is ‘only the beginning’ of Ukraine aid

By Fatima Hussein and Chris Megerian - Associated Press

President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Thursday, April 21, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

The Ukraine war is not Biden’s only credibility problem

By Wes Martin

Smoke rises after shelling in Mariupol, Ukraine, March 9, 2022. An Associated Press team of journalists was in Mariupol the day of the airstrike and raced to the scene. Their images prompted a massive Russian misinformation campaign that continues to this day. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)

Mariupol on the brink as Russians seek breakthrough

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times