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The early FBI probe of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort's business activities in Ukraine ended for lack of evidence in 2014. The FBI renewed its investigation of Mr. Manafort in 2016. (Associated Press)

Donald Trump presses for probe into origins of Russia investigation

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, a candidate for the presidential elections, talks to the media after casting her ballot at a polling station during the presidential election in Kiev, Ukraine, Sunday, March 31, 2019. Ukrainians choose from among 39 candidates for a president they hope can guide the country of more than 42 million out of troubles including endemic corruption, a seemingly intractable conflict with Russia-backed separatists in the country's east and a struggling economy. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

Ukraine: Rival accuses incumbent president of rigging vote

By YURAS KARMANAU - Associated Press

FILE - In this file photo taken on Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2019, Ukrainian comedian Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who played the nation's president in a popular TV series, is photographed on the film set in Kiev, Ukraine. Zelenskiy has no political experience, but his easygoing manner and snappy talk on the campaign trail strongly resembled his character in “Servant of the People”, a schoolteacher catapulted into the presidential seat. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)

Ukrainian comedian sure of victory in presidential runoff

By YURAS KARMANAU - Associated Press

Iikka Kanerva, OSCE Special Co-ordinator, attends a news conference in Kiev, Ukraine, Monday, April 1, 2019. Early results in Ukraine's presidential election show comedian Volodymyr Zelenskiy maintaining a strong lead against the incumbent president in the first round of voting, setting the stage for a runoff vote in three weeks. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

The Latest: Election observers hail Ukraine vote as free

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Ukrainian comedian Volodymyr Zelenskiy, reacts as he responds to a journalist question during a press conference, after the presidential elections in Kiev, Ukraine, Sunday, March. 31, 2019. Exit polls indicated Zelenskiy would get about 30 percent of the vote, far short of the absolute majority needed to win the first round. Most exit polls said incumbent Petro Poroshenko received the second-biggest support, which would put him and Zelenskiy in a runoff on April 21. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Ukraine’s president trying to hold off rival for runoff spot

By YURAS KARMANAU - Associated Press

An electoral worker holds a ballot box at a polling station, during the presidential elections in Kiev, Ukraine, Sunday, March. 31, 2019. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Ukraine comedian leads presidential election, runoff likely

By YURAS KARMANAU - Associated Press

An elderly woman examines her ballot voting at home during the presidential election in Mariinka, near a contact line not far from Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, Sunday, March 31, 2019. Ukrainians choose from among 39 candidates for a president they hope can guide the country of more than 42 million out of troubles including endemic corruption, a seemingly intractable conflict with Russia-backed separatists in the country's east and a struggling economy. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

The Latest: Ukraine comedian leads presidential election

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Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Ukrainian actor and candidate in the upcoming presidential election, hosts a comedy show at a concert hall in Brovary, Ukraine, Friday, March 29, 2019. Zelenskiy now surging ahead of both Tymoshenko and Poroshenko in the presidential context according to polls. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Comedian leads presidential polling in Ukraine

By YURAS KARMANAU - Associated Press

Ukrainian artist Dasha Marchenko adds a chocolate wrapper to her portrait of Ukraine's President and chocolate tycoon Petro Poroshenko at her studio in Kiev, Ukraine, Thursday, March 28, 2019. The artist bought around 20 kilograms of chocolate using the wrappers to create his face. The framework was constructed using 4000 gun shells from battlefields in the country’s east that has been hit by conflict with Russia-backed separatists since 2014. Poroshenko is running for the second term as president in elections to be held on March 31. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Ukraine minister: President and rival both bribing voters

By YURAS KARMANAU - Associated Press

In this image made from video taken on Wednesday, March 27, 2019, university student Maxim Kaluga, 21, speaks to the Associated Press in Donetsk, Ukraine. Five years after a deadly separatist conflict broke out in eastern Ukraine, a generation of first-time voters in rebel-held Donetsk and Luhansk has been cut off from Ukraine's presidential election on Sunday, March 31. (AP photo)

Separatist conflict in eastern Ukraine divides young voters

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President of Ukraine and candidate for 2019 elections, Petro Poroshenko, is seen on a screen as he talks for supporters during a election campaign rally in Lviv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 28, 2019. Presidential elections will be held in Ukraine on 31 March 2019. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Ukraine: President claims tycoon backed rivals for revenge

By YURAS KARMANAU and MSTYSLAV CHERNOV - Associated Press

Commuters are seen through the window of a public bus as they travel in central Vinnytsia, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 27, 2019. Presidential elections will be held in Ukraine on March 31. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

What’s at stake in Ukraine’s presidential election

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

In this file photo dated Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2019, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko gestures while speaking at a meeting with supporters in Kiev, Ukraine. Incumbent president, Poroshenko came to power in 2014 with the image of a “good oligarch&quot;, with the bulk of his fortune coming from a seemingly innocuous source, the chocolate-maker Roshen, hence his nickname “The Chocolate King.”(AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, FILE)

A look at Ukraine’s 3 top presidential contenders

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

In this April 21, 2018 photo, members of the nationalist group Sokil, the youth wing of the Svoboda party, chant slogans and light flares during a concert in Kiev, Ukraine. The influence of nationalist groups has steadily grown since 2014, driven by public dismay over the country’s economic woes and rampant corruption. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

Ukraine’s ultra-right increasingly visible as election nears

Associated Press

FILE - In this Friday, June 6, 2014 file photo, Ukraine's President-elect Petro Poroshenko, left, walks past Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, during the commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the D-Day in Ouistreham, western France. Five years into Ukraine’s conflict with Russia, Moscow seems to have Ukraine pinned against the ropes. Ukraine’s ambition of joining the EU and NATO is indefinitely stalled, it has no realistic way to reclaim control of Russian-annexed Crimea, or to end the war with Russia-backed separatists in the east. It’s no wonder a comedian is leading in the polls for the presidential election on Sunday, March 31, 2019. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, pool)

Ukraine’s integration into West dashed by war and corruption

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV - Associated Press

Supermarket warehouse workers ride trolleys and sort food and drinks near Teresin, Poland, March 12, 2019, with nearly half the workers being Ukrainian. Millions of Ukrainians, an estimated one in 10, have left their country to seek the opportunity of working abroad, as many see no hope if they remain at home. (AP Photo/Mstyslav Chernov)

Ukrainian workers, seeing little hope at home, head abroad

By VANESSA GERA and MSTYSLAV CHERNOV - Associated Press

Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo reacts after missing a scoring chance during the Euro 2020 group B qualifying soccer match between Portugal and Ukraine at the Luz stadium in Lisbon, Friday, March 22, 2019. (AP Photo/Armando Franca)

Portugal held by Ukraine on Ronaldo’s return

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Ukrainian Minister for Foreign Affairs Pavlo Klimkin talks during an interview with The Associated Press in Kiev, Ukraine, Friday, March 22, 2019. With President Petro Poroshenko slipping in the polls a week ahead of elections, Ukraine's government is trying to put a brave face on his achievements, insisting it is well on its way to delivering on the demands of the Maidan protest movement that drove the previous Russian-backed president from power in 2014. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

AP Interview: Ukraine minister claims Russia on its knees

By YURAS KARMANAU and NIKO PRICE - Associated Press

Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo reacts after missing a scoring chance during the Euro 2020 group B qualifying soccer match between Portugal and Ukraine at the Luz stadium in Lisbon, Friday, March 22, 2019. (AP Photo/Armando Franca)

England, France win big; Portugal held as Euro defense opens

By ROB HARRIS - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 4, 2017 file photo, Russian businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin is shown prior to a meeting of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia. (Sergei Ilnitsky/Pool Photo via AP, File)

A look at Russians who became mixed up in Trump probe

By NATALIYA VASILYEVA - Associated Press