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Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a session of the Russian Geographical Society via video link in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, April 14, 2021. (Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Joe Biden expels diplomats, hits Russia with sanctions over cyberattacks, election interference

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures while speaking during a cabinet meeting via video conference in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, April 8, 2021. (Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Russia testing U.S. on Ukraine; Biden administration must respond

By Luke Coffey

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, right, speaks with Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba prior to a meeting at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Tuesday, April 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, Pool)

NATO vows to support Ukraine, warns Russia on troop buildup

By RAF CASERT - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks visiting a memorial park on the site of Yuri Gagarin's landing after the first human spaceflight near Engels district of Saratov region, Russia, Monday, April 12, 2021. Gagarin's 108-minute flight to orbit on April 12, 1961 has been celebrated as a national triumph ever since. (Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Russian provocations surging as Blinken and Austin huddle with NATO allies

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

A woman visits her home in the separatist-controlled territory to collect her belongings after a recent shelling near a frontline outside Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, Friday, April 9, 2021. Tensions have built up in recent weeks in the area of the separatist conflict in eastern Ukraine, with violations of a cease-fire becoming increasingly frequent. (AP Photo)

Joe Biden urges Russia to ‘de-escalate tensions’ with Ukraine, proposes summit

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Local citizens visit their home in the separatist-controlled territory to collect belongings after a recent shelling near a frontline outside Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, Friday, April 9, 2021 .Tensions have built up in recent weeks in the area of the separatist conflict in eastern Ukraine, with violations of a cease-fire becoming increasingly frequent. (AP Photo)

Ukraine says 1 soldier killed in east as tensions rise

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy looks on as he visits the war-hit Donbas region, eastern Ukraine, Thursday, April 8, 2021. Ukraine's president is visiting the area of conflict in his country's east amid an escalation of tensions that has raised fears of a resumption of large-scale hostilities. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)

Kremlin says it fears full-scale fighting in Ukraine’s east

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV - Associated Press

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy shakes hands a soldier as he visits the war-hit Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Thursday, April 8, 2021. Ukraine is at the center of a major geopolitical battle in the eastern part of the country with Moscow backed separatists. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)

Ukraine’s president visits conflict area as tensions rise

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In this March 10, 2011, file photo, then-Vice President of the United States Joe Biden, left, shakes hands with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in Moscow, Russia. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

Vladimir Putin, Russia test Biden with ‘hybrid warfare’ operations in Ukraine, Arctic

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden responds to a question after speaking about the March jobs report in the State Dining Room of the White House, Friday, April 2, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Biden affirms support for Ukraine in standoff with Russia

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

Then-Vice President-elect, Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., left, stands with his son Hunter during a re-enactment of the Senate oath ceremony in the Old Senate Chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington on Jan. 6, 2009. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

Hunter Biden concedes that controversial laptop ‘absolutely’ could belong to him

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Ukrainian servicemen walk along a snow covered trench guarding their position at the frontline near Vodiane, about 750 kilometers (468 miles) south-east of Kyiv, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, March 5, 2021. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka) **FILE**

U.S. rushes to reassure Kyiv as tensions with Russia mount

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

France's Antoine Griezmann, centre, scores his side's opening goal during the World Cup 2022 group D qualifying soccer match between Bosnia and France, at the Grbavica stadium in Sarajevo, Bosnia, Wednesday, March 31, 2021. (AP Photo/Kemal Softic)

France scrapes 1-0 win but moves 4 points clear in Group D

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Ukraine’s president dismisses head of Constitutional Court

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France's Antoine Griezmann, second left, celebrates after scoring opening goal during the World Cup 2022 group D qualifying soccer match between France and Ukraine at the Start de de France stadium, in Saint Denis, north of Paris, Wednesday, March 24, 2021. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

France draws 1-1 with Ukraine, Finland held 2-2 at home

By JEROME PUGMIRE - Associated Press

Former FBI agent Peter Strzok re-aired an unverified claim about two Republican senators relying on Kremlin disinformation on Twitter this month. (Associated Press)

Ex-FBI agent Strzok repeats false disinformation claims about Republican senators

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Ukraine legal loss to UEFA means Nations League relegation

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FILE - In this March 28, 2014 file photo, a Russian national flag flies on a hilltop near the city of Bakhchysarai, Crimea. The Group of Seven major industrialized countries on Thursday March 18, 2021, issued a strong condemnation of what it called Russia's ongoing “occupation” of the Crimean Peninsula, seven years after Moscow annexed it from Ukraine. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, File)

Group of Seven slams Russia annexation of Crimea, 7 years on

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Secretary of State Antony Blinken introduces President Joe Biden for remarks to State Department staff, Thursday, Feb. 4, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

CROSSTALK: Leading not by force but by example - really, Antony Blinken?

By Edward Lozansky

A Ukrainian serviceman prepares to receive a dose of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine marketed under the name CoviShield at a military base near the front-line town of Krasnohorivka, eastern Ukraine, Friday, March 5, 2021. The country designated 14,000 doses of its first vaccine shipment for the military, especially those fighting Russia-backed separatists in the east. But only 1,030 troops have been vaccinated thus far. In the front-line town of Krasnohorivka, soldiers widely refuse to vaccinate. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Wide resistance to vaccines plagues Ukraine’s COVID-19 fight

By YURAS KARMANAU - Associated Press