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Yan Skvyeskyi poses with a smarthphone showing his parents Irina and Igor Kushnir prior to an interview with the Associated Press in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, March 1, 2022. Ukrainian Skvyeskyi, who works in sales in Berlin, immigrated to Germany in 1990, after the collapse of the Soviet Union. As Russia's war in Ukraine drags into its second week, more than 1.5 million Ukrainians immigrants living in other European countries, are watching on in agony, horror and fear as their relatives and friends back home are looking for shelter in bunkers or are desperately trying to flee the country. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

Ukrainian diaspora helps civilians back home escape the war

By Kirsten Grieshaber - Associated Press

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, speaks with European Council President Charles Michel as he arrives for an extraordinary EU foreign ministers meeting at the European Council building in Brussels, Friday, March 4, 2022. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets Friday with his counterparts from NATO and the European Union, as Russia's war on Ukraine entered its ninth day marked by the seizure of the strategic port city of Kherson and the shelling of Europe's largest nuclear power plant. (AP Photo/Olivier Matthys)

Stoltenberg nixes NATO ‘no-fly zone’ for Ukraine

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, right, poses with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg during a an extraordinary NATO foreign ministers meeting at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Friday, March 4, 2022. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets Friday with his counterparts from NATO and the European Union, as Russia's war on Ukraine entered its ninth day marked by the seizure of the strategic port city of Kherson and the shelling of Europe's largest nuclear power plant. (Olivier Douliery, Pool Photo via AP)

Why a NATO no-fly zone over Ukraine is a dangerous idea

By Ivan Eland

An armored personnel carrier burns and damaged light utility vehicles stand abandoned after fighting in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Sunday, Feb. 27, 2022. The city authorities said that Ukrainian forces engaged in fighting with Russian troops that entered the country's second-largest city on Sunday. (AP Photo/Marienko Andrew)

Western media suspend Russian operations after Duma passes punitive law

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

FILE - Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a news conference in Moscow, Russia, Feb. 1, 2022. (Yuri Kochetkov/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Hawaii suspends Russian oil imports after Ukraine invasion

Associated Press

Food and other aids are collected at a temporary shelter run by the municipality and the Baptist Charity in Tiszabecs, Hungary, Thursday, March 3, 2022. More than 1 million people have fled Ukraine following Russia's invasion in the swiftest refugee exodus in this century, the United Nations said Thursday. (AP Photo/Anna Szilagyi) **FILE**

Officials warn against Ukraine charity scams

By Sean Salai - The Washington Times

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)

Backlash against Russian-branded gas stations hits Americans

By David Porter - Associated Press

Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, Right, and Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., left, speak about the bill to ban Russian energy imports, Thursday, March 3, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

Biden faces bipartisan pressure to ban Russian oil and ramp up U.S. production

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., left, and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., right, arrive to speak at the start of a discussion with historians Doris Kearns Goodwin and Jon Meacham on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 6, on how "to establish and preserve the narrative of January 6th." The event marked the first anniversary of the U.S. Capitol insurrection, the violent attack by Trump supporters that has fundamentally changed the Congress and raised global concerns about the future of American democracy. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, Pool)

Congress takes weekend off despite urgent calls for emergency action on Ukrainian aid

By Haris Alic and Mica Soellner - The Washington Times

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, bottom, looks on as Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks via video call during a news conference in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Dec. 17, 2020. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Biden announces sweeping sanctions on Putin’s inner circle of oligarchs

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

In this July 2, 2015, file photo, Russian metals magnate Oleg Deripaska attends Independence Day celebrations at Spaso House, the residence of the American Ambassador, in Moscow, Russia. Russia’s war on Ukraine has sent shockwaves through the elite global community of wealthy Russians. Some have begun, tentatively, to speak out. Deripaska, Alfa Bank founder Mikhail Fridman and banker Oleg Tinkov have also urged an end to the violence, though none has directly mentioned Putin. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File) **FILE**

Russian oligarchs calling for end to invasion of Ukraine

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

In this photo taken on Thursday, June 12, 2008, a power-generating unit at the Zaporozhiya nuclear power plant is seen in the city of Enerhodar, in southern Ukraine. (AP Photo/Olexander Prokopenko, file)

Europe’s largest nuclear power plant on fire after Russian shelling

Associated Press

Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill, background center, conducts the church's main service celebrating Orthodox Easter at Moscow's Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow, Russia, early Sunday, April 19, 2020. Orthodox priests in much of Europe held Easter services in churches empty of parishioners because of restrictions imposed to block the spread of coronavirus. (Igor Palkin, Russian Orthodox Church Press Service via AP)

Hundreds of Russian Orthodox clerics sign letter calling for end to Ukraine invasion

By Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times

Israeli youth sing and cheer for people arriving from Ukraine at Ben Gurion Airport, Thursday, March 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Faith-based groups fund relief, evacuation efforts in Ukraine

By Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times

A Soviet-era top secret object Duga, an over-the-horizon radar system once used as part of the Soviet missile defense early-warning radar network, seen behind a radioactivity sign in Chernobyl, Ukraine, on Nov. 22, 2018. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)

Chernobyl staff held at nuke plant by Russians facing ‘psychological pressure and moral exhaustion’

Associated Press

A motorist pumps gasoline at a Mobil gas station following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in West Hollywood, Calif., Friday, Feb. 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes) ** FILE **

Democrats blame ‘price gouging’ for high gas prices; experts disagree

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks during the Quad summit with President Joe Biden, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga in the East Room of the White House, Friday, Sept. 24, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden and Quad leaders discuss Ukraine, humanitarian assistance

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

In this image taken from video provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks to the nation in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 3, 2022. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)

Zelenskyy says the world has to get through to Putin to stop the war

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden delivers his first State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress at the Capitol, as Vice President Kamala Harris and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., watch, Tuesday, March 1, 2022, in Washington. Biden has a new plan to expand mental health and drug abuse treatment. He proposes pouring hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars into suicide prevention, mental health services for youth, and community clinics providing 24/7 access to people in crisis. (Saul Loeb/Pool via AP)

Biden asks Congress for $10B in emergency aid for Ukraine

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

Passengers rush to board a train leaving to Slovakia from the Lviv railway station, in Lviv, west Ukraine, Wednesday, March 2, 2022. Russian forces have escalated their attacks on crowded cities in what Ukraine's leader called a blatant campaign of terror. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

Ukraine refugee count tops 1 million; Russians besiege ports

By Jim Heintz, Yuras Karmanau, Vladimir Isachenkov and Dash Litvinova - Associated Press