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Sabine ten Doesschate, rear, and Boudewijn van Eijck, lawyers for one of the four suspects, Russian Oleg Pulatov, are seen 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)

Lawyer: Coronavirus restrictions hamper MH17 defense case

By MIKE CORDER - Associated Press

Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau arrives in the foyer of the House of Commons on Parliament Hill for a meeting of the Special Committee on the COVID-19 Pandemic in Ottawa, Ontario on Wednesday, May 27, 2020. (Justin Tang/The Canadian Press via AP)

Trudeau says Russia won’t be included in the G7

By ROB GILLIES - Associated Press

Ukraine Green Energy Contract Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Why Ukraine must move forward, not backtrack on energy policy

By Wes Martin

In this photo taken on Saturday, May 9, 2020, Dr. Olha Kobevko speaks to a patient suspected of having coronavirus at the regional hospital in Chernivtsi, Ukraine. The hospital lacks a centralized oxygen supply and has to rely mostly on refillable oxygen masks, reflecting a pitiful state of Ukraine's underfunded health care system that was quickly overwhelmed by the coronavirus even with a relatively low number of infections. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Ukraine’s overburdened doctors in desperate virus fight

By Mstyslav Chernov and Yuras Karmanau - Associated Press

Keith Dayton (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez) **FILE**

Trump nominates Keith W. Dayton, retired Army officer, as ambassador to Ukraine

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Saturday, April 21, 2018 file photo, Andriy Pavelko, President Ukrainian soccer federation, hold the Champions league trophies next to Vitali Klitschko, Mayor of Kiev, at the hand over ceremony in Kiev, Ukraine. The highest-ranking soccer official in Ukraine has been the target of UEFA and FIFA investigators about millions of dollars paid to his national federation. UEFA executive committee member Andriy Pavelko cooperated with its probe and denied any wrongdoing according to leaked letter he wrote to FIFA's ethics committee. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, file)

Ukraine soccer official targeted by FIFA, UEFA investigators

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

In this photo taken on Friday, May 1, 2020, doctor Ivan Venzhynovych, wearing special suit to protect against coronavirus, poses for a photo after morning examination patients with coronavirus at a hospital in Pochaiv, Ukraine. Ukraine's troubled health care system has been overwhelmed by COVID-19, even though it has reported a relatively low number of cases. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Ukraine’s hospitals under strain, even with few virus cases

By MSTYSLAV CHERNOV and YURAS KARMANAU - Associated Press

FILE - In this Wednesday, May 29, 2019 file photo, Georgia's ex-President Mikheil Saakashvili, greets his supporters upon his arrival at Boryspil Airport, outside Kyiv, Ukraine. Wednesday, May 29, 2019. Saakashvili said he has accepted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's offer to become a deputy prime minister in charge of reforms, a move that has angered his home country. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, FILE)

Georgia recalls its ambassador in Ukraine over ex-president

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FILE - In this Wednesday, May 29, 2019 file photo, Georgia's ex-President Mikheil Saakashvili, greets his supporters upon his arrival at Boryspil Airport, outside Kyiv, Ukraine. Wednesday, May 29, 2019. Saakashvili said he has accepted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's offer to become a deputy prime minister in charge of reforms, a move that has angered his home country. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, FILE)

Ex-president of Georgia given official job in Ukraine

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Illustration on Russian aggression against Ukraine by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Russia’s military aggression against Ukraine continues

By Jed Babbin

FILE - In this March 29, 2019 file photo, a Ukrainian solder checks his weapon as he guards on the contact line in the village of Zolote 4, eastern Ukraine. Top diplomats from Russia, Ukraine, France and Germany discussed ways to advance the peace process for eastern Ukraine on Thursday April 30, 2020, but failed to achieve any tangible progress. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Top diplomats discuss peace plans for eastern Ukraine

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV - Associated Press

Antonio Guterres, UN Secretary-General displayed on a screen at the Environment Ministry as he delivers his speech at the Petersberg Climate Dialogue, in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, April 28, 2020. Due to the coronavirus crisis, the conference will only be held digitally. (Michael Kappeler/Pool via AP)

UN chief:16 armed groups have responded to cease-fire appeal

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., holds the gavel after announcing the passage of the second article of impeachment, obstruction of Congress, against President Donald Trump by the House of Representatives at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2019. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Coronavirus timeline finds few heroes inside Beltway as impeachment consumed Congress

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Ex-president of Georgia accepts top Cabinet job in Ukraine

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Trojan Horse Aid Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Beware of Russian and Chinese ‘Trojan Horses’ bearing pandemic medical aid

By Markiyan Lubkivskyi

German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas briefs the media during a news conference on current developments in the worldwide spread of the coronavirus at the foreign ministry in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, March 17, 2020. For most people, the new coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness, including pneumonia. (Bernd von Jutrczenka/dpa via AP)

Foreign ministers to confer on Ukraine peace efforts

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Policemen wearing masks to protect against coronavirus block the approaches to ancient Orthodox Monastery of Caves, which was closed for quarantine, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, April 13, 2020. Over 90 COVID-19 cases have been confirmed at the Monastery, of which 63 monks were confirmed in the past 24 hours, making the thousand-year old historical and religious center the biggest hotbed of coronavirus outbreak in the Ukrainian capital. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Rival Ukraine Churches clash over Easter lockdown rules

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In this photo taken from the roof of Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear power plant late Friday April 10, 2020, a forest fire is seen burning near the plant inside the exclusion zone. Ukrainian firefighters are labouring to put out two forest blazes in the area around the Chernobyl nuclear power station that was evacuated because of radioactive contamination after the 1986 explosion at the plant. (Ukrainian Police Press Office via AP)

Forest fires rage near Chernobyl nuclear plant

Associated Press

In this photo made on Saturday, April 4, 2020, an aerial view of a forest fire burning near the village of Volodymyrivka in the exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, Ukraine. The fire was still burning on Sunday, April 5, Emergency Ministry firemen kept extinguishing the fire. (Emergency Situation Ministry via AP)

Ukraine continues to battle forest fire near Chernobyl

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy wearing a face mask to protect against coronavirus speaks during an extraordinary parliamentary session in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, March 30, 2020. Ukraine has been under quarantine since March 12. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death. (AP Photo)

Ukraine approves legislation in a bid for IMF aid

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