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FILE - In this Thursday, Oct. 23, 2014 file photo, a member of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) mission to Ukraine watches a drone take off during a test flight near the town of Mariupol, eastern Ukraine. Germany and France say it appears that Russian-backed separatists in Ukraine downed a drone being used by neutral European observers and are demanding accountability. In a joint statement, they said Thursday, Nov. 1, 2018 the downing is a &quot;clear violation&quot; of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe's Special Monitoring Mission in Ukraine, which is to have unimpeded access. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky, file)

Germany, France say Russian-backed separatists down drone

By DAVID RISING - Associated Press

U.S. Black Hawk helicopters were deployed to reassure NATO's European allies after Russia's invasion in Ukraine. (Associated Press/File)

NATO expansion for Ukraine insane idea

By L. Todd Wood

In this May 4, 2004, photo, a full moon rises above the golden domes of the Orthodox Monastery of the Caves in Kiev, Ukraine. Tensions over the imminent formation of a Ukrainian Orthodox church independent of Moscow are raising fears that nationalists will try to seize Russian church properties.(AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)

Ukraine media wars

By L. Todd Wood

Russia and West clash over Nov. 11 elections in east Ukraine

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Tuesday, April 15, 2014 file photo, Ukrainian air force Su-27 fighter jet is in the sky outside Slovyansk, 160 kilometers (100 miles) from the Russian border, in eastern Ukraine. Ukraine’s military says that a Ukrainian fighter jet taking part in a joint U.S.-Ukrainian air force exercise has crashed, killing both pilots. The General Staff of Ukraine’s armed forces said the two-seat Su-27UB went down Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2018 in the Kmelnitskyi region. (AP Photo/Alexander Ermochenko, file)

Corruption in Ukrainian armed forces harming nation’s security

By L. Todd Wood

FILE - In this Thursday Oct. 11, 2018 file photo, Patriarch Filaret, head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kiev Patriarchate, conducts a service at the Volodymysky Cathedral in Kiev, Ukraine. Tensions over the imminent formation of a Ukrainian Orthodox church independent of Moscow are raising fears that nationalists may try to seize Russian church properties. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, FILE)

Birth of a new Ukrainian church brings fears of violence

By YURAS KARMANAU - Associated Press

Police vehicles are parked near a vocational college in Kerch, Crimea, Thursday, Oct. 18, 2018. An 18-year-old student strode into his vocational school in Crimea, a hoodie covering his blond hair, then pulled out a shotgun and opened fire on Wednesday, killing scores of students and wounding dozens of others before killing himself. (AP Photo/Sergei Demidov)

Crimean city turns to mourning 20 victims of school attack

By NATALIYA VASILYEVA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Tuesday, April 15, 2014 file photo, Ukrainian air force Su-27 fighter jet is in the sky outside Slovyansk, 160 kilometers (100 miles) from the Russian border, in eastern Ukraine. Ukraine’s military says that a Ukrainian fighter jet taking part in a joint U.S.-Ukrainian air force exercise has crashed, killing both pilots. The General Staff of Ukraine’s armed forces said the two-seat Su-27UB went down Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2018 in the Kmelnitskyi region. (AP Photo/Alexander Ermochenko, file)

2 die in fighter jet crash in Ukraine, US pilot “involved”

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US envoy: Continue sanctions until Russia exits east Ukraine

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FILE - In this file photo taken on Friday, Aug. 31, 2018, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, centre, is introduced to officials by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, right, the spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians, prior to their meeting at the Patriarchate in Istanbul. The Istanbul-based Ecumenical Patriarchate says it will move forward with its decision to grant Ukrainian clerics independence from the Russian Orthodox Church. The decision was announced Thursday, Oct. 11 following a regular holy synod meeting. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, file)

Orthodox Church to move forward with Ukrainian independence

By YURAS KARMANU - Associated Press

Smoke rises after a powerful explosion at the ammunition depot of a military base near the town of Ichnya, about 170 km (110 mile) east of Kiev Ukraine, early Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2018. More than 10,000 residents have been evacuated after an ammunition depot exploded early Tuesday. (Vlad Musienko /Prime Minister Service Pool Photo via AP)

Fire at Ukraine’s ammunition depot forces massive evacuation

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Map of the roots of Ukrainian crisis from 1654 to present

Short digest of the roots of Ukrainian crisis from 1654 to present

By Edward Lozansky

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko speaks during his annual state-of-the-nation address in Verkhovna Rada, the Ukrainian parliament, in Kiev, Ukraine, Thursday, Sept. 20, 2018. (Mykola Lazarenko/Presidential Press Service Pool Photo pool via AP)

Ukraine pushes ahead with plans to secure NATO membership

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Region in Ukraine’s west bans Russian-language books, movies

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Russia: Missile that shot down flight MH17 was Ukrainian

By NATALIYA VASILYEVA - Associated Press

Archbishop Ilarion of Edmonton from Canada, center, hands over a message from Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew to Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko while Archbishop Daniel of Pamphilon from the United States, right, watches during their meeting in Kiev, Ukraine, Monday, Sept. 17, 2018. The Ecumenical Patriarchate has appointed two exarchs in Kiev for the framework of the preparations for the granting of autocephaly to the Orthodox Church in Ukraine. (Mikhail Palinchak/Presidential Press Service Pool Photo via AP)

Orthodox envoys meet with Ukraine’s president

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U.S. special representative to Ukraine Kurt Volker attends the 15th Yalta European Strategy (YES) annual meeting entitled &quot;The next generation of everything&quot; at the Mystetsky Arsenal Art Center in Kiev, Ukraine, Saturday, Sept. 15, 2018. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Envoy: US willing to consider further lethal aid to Ukraine

By YURAS KARMANAU - Associated Press

In this handout photo released by Russian Orthodox Church Press Service, Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill presides over a meeting of the church's Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church, in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Sept. 14, 2018. The meeting of the Russian Orthodox Church's top hierarchs mulled a response to a decision by Orthodox Christianity's leading body to send two envoys to Ukraine. (Sergey Vlasov, Russian Orthodox Church Press Service via AP)

Russian Orthodox Church debates strategy on Ukraine

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV - Associated Press

In this Oct. 12, 2017, file photo, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce, R-Calif., presides over a markup of a bill to expand sanctions against Iran with respect to its ballistic missile program, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Royce says he will not seek re-election after serving out his 13th term. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File) **FILE**

Democrats still want Trump-Putin Helsinki notes; Royce pushes back

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Russian Orthodox church rejects decision on Ukraine envoys

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