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Military vehicles and tanks of Poland, Italy, Canada and the United States roll during the NATO military exercises ''Namejs 2021'' at a training ground in Kadaga, Latvia, on Monday, Sept. 13, 2021. NATO responded to Russia's 2014 annexation of Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula by beefing up alliance forces and conducting drills on the territories of its easternmost members — the maneuvers the Kremlin described as a security threat. (AP Photo/Roman Koksarov) **FILE**

U.S. vows to move more forces closer to Russia if Moscow invades Ukraine

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures while speaking during his annual news conference in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Dec. 23, 2021. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Putin urges West to act quickly to offer security guarantees

By Vladimir Isachenkov - Associated Press

A pair of migrant families from Brazil pass through a gap in the border wall to reach the United States after crossing from Mexico in Yuma, Ariz., on June 10, 2021, to seek asylum. The families are part of an influx of asylum-seekers entering the U.S. in the Yuma area from South America and other continents. Yuma Mayor Doug Nicholls says an emergency situation in the southwestern Arizona border city has eased with federal officials moving in additional personnel in response to thousands of migrants. (AP Photo/Eugene Garcia, File)

GOP Rep. Madison Cawthorn: U.S. should focus on its own border before Ukraine’s

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Presiding Judge Hendrik Steenhuis, right, looks at a television monitor during the ongoing trial and criminal proceedings regarding the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, at the high security court at Schiphol airport, near Amsterdam, Netherlands, Monday, Dec. 20, 2021. Prosecutors are scheduled to begin explaining the evidence and their case to judges Monday in the murder trial of three Russians and a Ukrainian charged with involvement in downing Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine in 2014, killing all 298 passengers and crew. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Dutch prosecutors demand life sentences in MH17 downing

By Mike Corder - Associated Press

In this photo released by the Russian Foreign Ministry Press Service, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov pauses during his and Brazilian Foreign Minister Carlos Franca's joint news conference following their talks in Moscow, Russia, Nov. 30, 2021. Russia's top diplomat on Wednesday, Dec. 21 says that Russian and U.S. negotiators will sit down for talks early next year to discuss Moscow's demand for Western guarantees precluding NATO's expansion to Ukraine. (Russian Foreign Ministry Press Service via AP, File)

Russian FM: Security talks with U.S., NATO to start next month

By Vladimir Isachenkov - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin listens to Promsvyazbank CEO Pyotr Fradkov during their meeting in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Monday, Dec. 20, 2021. (Evgeniy Paulin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Russia warns of military action as fears mount of Christmas invasion of Ukraine

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

European Council President Charles Michel, center, speaks with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, left, during a group photo of EU leaders and Eastern Partnership countries at an Eastern Partnership Summit in Brussels, Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2021. European Union leaders meet with partner nations on its eastern borders on Wednesday, with the Russian military buildup on Ukraine's border as the main point of focus. (AP Photo/Olivier Matthys)

EU hopes to avoid Ukraine war with talks, sanctions threat

By Raf Casert - Associated Press

Servicemen walk in a trench at the line of separation near Yasynuvata, about 15 km ( miles) north of Donetsk, controlled by Russia-backed separatists, eastern Ukraine, Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2021. (AP Photo/Alexei Alexandrov)

Outmanned and outgunned: Ukraine’s military faces long odds in clash with Russia

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

A Russian tank rolls during a military drills at Molkino training ground in the Krasnodar region, Russia, Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2021. Russia on Tuesday carried out military exercises in the Rostov region near its border with Ukraine. Tensions between the two countries rose in recent weeks amid reports of a Russian troop buildup near the border that stoked fears of a possible invasion -- allegations Moscow denied and in turn blamed Ukraine for its own military buildup in the east of the country. (AP Photo)

The day of reckoning postponed — for now

By Edward Lozansky

Ukraine powder keg illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times

The powder keg named Ukraine

By Ivan Sascha Sheehan

Declining birth rates illustration by The Washington Times

Demographic winter: The plague of the century

By Don Feder

Chinese President Xi Jinping, center left, and Russian President Vladimir Putin, center right, enter a hall for talks in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, June 5, 2019. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, Pool, File)

China’s Xi, Russia’s Putin to hold virtual summit Wednesday

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G-7 Foreign and Development Ministers pose for a group photo in Liverpool, England Sunday, Dec. 12, 2021. Foreign Secretary Liz Truss is hosting U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and other Group of Seven counterparts for weekend talks in the northwest England port city of Liverpool as the wealthy nations club faces growing tensions with Russia, China and Iran. From left, Italy's Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Marina Sereni, German Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development Svenja Schulze, Phillippines Secretary of Foreign Affairs Teodoro L Locsin Jr, Germany's Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, Italy's Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio, Britain's Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Canada's Minister of Foreign Affairs Melanie Joly, Canada's Minister of International Development Harjit Sajjan, High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs Josep Borrell and Brunei Darussalam's Minister of Foreign Affairs Dato Erywan Pehin Yusof. (Olivier Douliery/Pool via AP)

U.S., G-7 allies demand Russia pull back from Ukraine border, warn of ‘massive’ response

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

Russian Invasion of Ukraine Illustration by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Is Russia about to invade Ukraine?

By Jed Babbin

Ukrainian soldiers walks at the line of separation from pro-Russian rebels near Katerinivka, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Tuesday, Dec 7, 2021. Ukrainian authorities on Tuesday charged that Russia is sending tanks and snipers to the line of contact in war-torn eastern Ukraine to &quot;provoke return fire,&quot; an accusation that comes amid fears that a Russian troop buildup near the Ukrainian border might indicate plans for an invasion. (AP Photo/Andriy Dubchak)

Russia warns Kyiv against use of force in rebel regions

By Dasha Litvinova - Associated Press

President Joe Biden talks with reporters at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2021, as heads to Missouri to promote the bipartisan infrastructure law. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Biden says he’s not planning to deploy U.S. troops to Ukraine to unilaterally confront Russia

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

In this image provided by The White House, President Joe Biden speaks as he meets virtually via a secure video conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin from the Situation Room at the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2021. At far left is White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan along with Secretary of State Antony Blinken, right, national security council senior director for Russian and Central Asia, Eric Green. (Adam Schultz/The White House via AP)

Putin: Russia will submit security proposals to U.S. in a week

By Dasha Litvinova and Aamer Madhani and Vladimir Isachenkov - Associated Press

Illustration on a weak President Biden by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Putin knows Biden is weak

By Cal Thomas

Ukrainian soldiers walks at the line of separation from pro-Russian rebels near Katerinivka, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Tuesday, Dec 7, 2021. The final portion of a $60 million U.S. security assistance package to Ukraine approved by President Biden is expected to arrive this week amid rising tensions with Moscow as hundreds of Russian troops continue massing along the border. (AP Photo/Andriy Dubchak)

Last shipment of U.S. arms arrives in Ukraine amid Russia tensions

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

FILE - Russian President Vladimir Putin holds a binoculars as he watches the joint strategic exercise of the armed forces of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus Zapad-2021 at the Mulino training ground in the Nizhny Novgorod region, Russia, on Sept. 13, 2021. The Kremlin has rejected Ukrainian and Western allegations that it amassed troops preparing for possible invasion of Ukraine, describing the claims as a cover for their own alleged aggressive designs. (Sergei Savostyanov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

What’s behind Russia-Ukraine tensions?

By Vladimir Isachenkov - Associated Press