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FILE - In this file photo dated Monday, Dec. 9 2019, a Ukrainian soldier takes position on the front line at the town of Novoluhanske in the Donetsk region, Ukraine. Ukrainian and rebel forces in war-torn eastern Ukraine have started preparing for a “full and comprehensive” ceasefire scheduled to begin at midnight on Monday July 27, 2020. Rebel officials said Sunday they have instructed their troops about the ceasefire and issued a decree banning weapon use, while Ukraine's president said that if upheld, it would “pave the way for implementing other clauses” of the Minsk peace deal. (AP Photo/Vitali Komar, FILE)

Cease-fire in war-torn eastern Ukraine to begin at midnight

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In this image take from video, the scene as police close off the streets, after an armed man seized a bus and took some 20 people hostage in the city centre of Lutsk, some 400 kilometers (250 miles) west of Kyiv, Ukraine on Tuesday July 21, 2020. The assailant is armed and carrying explosives, according to a Facebook statement by Ukrainian police. Police officers are trying to get in touch with the man and they have sealed off the area. (AP Photo)

Police: Armed man holding some 20 people hostage in Ukraine

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List 3/4 of sports events affected by coronavirus pandemic

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Ukraine appoints new head of the National Bank

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Candidate in Poland's tight presidential election runoff, incumbent President Andrzej Duda talks to reporters after having cast his ballot at a polling station in his hometown of Krakow, Poland, on Sunday, July 12, 2020. Conservative Duda is running against liberal Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski and latest opinion polls suggest the race will be decided by a very narrow margin.(AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Russian prankster acts as UN chief, reaches Polish president

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA - Associated Press

Ukraine Power Grid Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Ukraine needs electric grid reform to escape Soviet legacy

By Vladislav Inozemtsev

5 killed, 9 injured by wildfires in Ukraine

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People enjoy the beach in the Black Sea in Odessa, Ukraine, Saturday, July 4, 2020. Tens of thousands of vacation-goers in Russia and Ukraine have descended on Black Sea beaches, paying little attention to safety measures despite levels of contagion still remaining high in both countries. (AP Photo/Sergei Poliakov)

In Russia and Ukraine, no social distance on crowded beaches

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Ukraine’s parliament accepts chief banker’s resignation

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Ukraine’s central banker chief steps down citing pressure

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EU prolongs sanctions against Russia over Ukraine conflict

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Russian President Vladimir Putin listens to French President Emmanuel Macron during a via video conference at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Russia, Friday, June 26, 2020. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Putin, Macron discuss closer cooperation in video call

By ANGELA CHARLTON and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV - Associated Press

Ukraine's Emergency Situation workers evacuate residents of the flooded village of Lanchyn in the Ivano-Frankivsk region, western Ukraine, Wednesday, June 24, 2020. Some 200 villages in the Carpathian mountains were flooded after heavy rains. (Emergency Situation Ministry via AP)

Floods in western Ukraine leave 3 dead, one person missing

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FILE - In this Feb. 24, 2011 file photo then Rep. David Rivera, R-Fla., talks during a freedom for Cuba march in Miami. Venezuela's socialist government tried to recruit former Congressman Pete Sessions to broker a meeting with the CEO of Exxon Mobil at the same time it was secretly paying a close former House colleague $50 million to keep U.S. sanctions at bay, The Associated Press has learned. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)

Sources: Venezuela wooed Texas Republican to ease sanctions

By JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

Presiding judge Hendrik Steenhuis, rear, fourth from left, opens the court session as the trial resumed at the high security court building at Schiphol Airport, near Amsterdam, Monday, June 8, 2020, for three Russians and a Ukrainian charged with crimes including murder for their alleged roles in the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine nearly six years ago. (AP Photo/Robin van Lonkhuijsen, POOL)

Defense lawyers seek more investigations into MH17 downing

By MIKE CORDER - Associated Press

Ukraine receives $60M worth of military equipment from US

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In this Sept. 30, 2019, file photo, former National Security Adviser John Bolton gestures while speakings at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Bolton says Trump asked China to help him get reelected

By ZEKE MILLER and DEB RIECHMANN and JILL COLVIN - Associated Press

Ukraine's Anti-Corruption Prosecutor Nazar Kholodnytsky, left, and National Anti-Corruption Bureau chief Artem Sytnik at a pile of USD 6 million in plastic bags during a briefing in an anti-corruption prosecutor's office in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, June 13, 2020. Ukrainian authorities say they have intercepted a USD 6 million bribe attempt at dropping a criminal investigation against the head of the Burisma natural gas company where former US Vice President Joe Biden's son once held a board seat. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Ukraine: Bribe in probe of gas chief; unrelated to Bidens

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U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, left, and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky arrive for a joint news conference in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday Jan. 31, 2020. (Kevin Lamarque/Pool via AP)

Defense Department announces $250M aid package for Ukraine

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Foreigners allowed into Ukraine to get surrogate-born babies

By YURAS KARMANAU and DMYTRO VLASOV - Associated Press