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US cautiously welcomes Russia’s call for UN force in Ukraine

By JOSH LEDERMAN - Associated Press

Italy goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon fails to stop a goal from Spain's Isco to open the score during the World Cup Group G qualifying soccer match between Spain and Italy at the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium in Madrid, Saturday Sept. 2, 2017. (AP Photo/Paul White)

Spain closer to World Cup spot after rare defeat for Italy

By TALES AZZONI - Associated Press

Ukrainian soldiers march along main Khreshchatyk Street during a military parade to celebrate Independence Day in Kiev, Ukraine, Thursday, Aug. 24, 2017. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

CROSSTALK: Ukrainian crisis: Is there a way out?

By Edward Lozansky

U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis, right, speaks with Lithuania's Minister of Defense Raimundas Karoblis prior to a military parade to celebrate Independence Day in Kiev, Ukraine, Thursday, Aug. 24, 2017. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

CROSSTALK: Trump, Putin, Ukraine, Reagan, Obama

By L. Todd Wood

Dortmund signs forward Andrey Yarmolenko from Dynamo Kiev

Associated Press

U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, center, attends a military parade to celebrate independence day in Kiev, Ukraine, Thursday, Aug. 24, 2017. The Ukraine officially declared itself independent from the Soviet Union on April 24, 1991. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

James Mattis in Kiev says Moscow wants to redraw borders by force

By Robert Burns - Associated Press

Ongoing fighting between rebels of the so-called Donetsk People's Republic and Ukrainian government forces has resulted in collateral damage such as the destruction of civilians' homes. Western powers, though realizing the situation there is grim, are increasingly faced with few viable intervention options. (Reuters)

Ukraine fighters vow to press on in four-year conflict

By Seth J. Frantzman

FILE - In this Friday, Feb. 26, 1999 file photo, a Ukrainian defense official examines a SS-19 nuclear missile just before it is to be dismantled in the southeastern city of Dnipro, Ukraine. The New York Times reported Monday, Aug. 14, 2017 that Pyongyang's quick progress in making ballistic missiles potentially capable of reaching the United States was made possible by black-market purchases of powerful rocket engines, probably from the Ukrainian plant in Dnipro. Ukrainian officials denied the claim. (AP Photo/Sergey Pashchenko, File)

Ukraine rocket maker denies leaking know-how to North Korea

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In this June 20, 2017, photo, President Donald Trump shakes hands with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. Seeking leverage with Russia, the Trump administration has reopened consideration of long-rejected plans to give Ukraine lethal weapons, even if that would plunge the United States deeper into the former Soviet republic’s conflict. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

U.S. takes another look at providing lethal weapons to Ukraine

By MATTHEW LEE - Associated Press

U.S. State Secretary Rex Tillerson gives an opening statement during the ASEAN-U.S. Ministerial meeting of the 50th Association of Southeast Asia Nations Regional Forum in suburban Pasay city southeast of Manila, Philippines Sunday, Aug. 6, 2017. (Erik De Castro/Pool Photo via AP)

Rex Tillerson sets deadline with Russia on U.S. diplomats

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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, center, and leader of Nochniye Volki (the Night Wolves) biker group, Alexander Zaldostanov, also known as Khirurg (the Surgeon), right, pose for a press attending a meeting of motorbikers at their camp at Gasfort lake near Sevastopol in Ukraine's Crimea Peninsula, Saturday, July 24, 2010. Putin has lept on a Harley Davidson and roared into a international biker convention in southern Ukraine. Around 5,000 bikers from Europe and beyond are gathered in Sevastopol for the annual festival on Ukraine's Crimea peninsula. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, Pool)

Vladimir Putin grants funds to Russia ‘foreign agent’ groups

By Marc Bennetts - Special to The Washington Times

In this July 18, 2017 photo, Energy Secretary Rick Perry attends a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington. The Trump administration says a Pennsylvania-based coal company has won a contract to supply coal used for heating to Ukraine’s state-owned power company. The deal announced Monday calls for Xcoal Energy and Resources to ship 700,000 tons of thermal coal to the Ukraine to heat homes and businesses. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Trump administration hails deal to export coal to Ukraine

By MATTHEW DALY - Associated Press

Illustration on Russian cyber attacks on Ukraine by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Cyberattack on Ukraine deserves help from the West

By Dmytro Shymkiv

FILE - In this Nov. 7, 2016, file photo, ExxonMobil CEO and chairman Rex W. Tillerson gives a speech at the annual Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition &amp; Conference in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The Treasury Department hit Exxon Mobil Corp. with a $2 million fine on July 20, 2017, for violating Russia sanctions while Tillerson was the oil company’s CEO. Treasury said in a statement that Exxon under Tillerson’s leadership had shown “reckless disregard” for sanctions that the Obama administration imposed on Russian entities in 2014 over Russia’s annexation of Crimea. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell, File)

Exxon fined $2M for Tillerson-era breach of Russia sanctions

By JOSH LEDERMAN and MATTHEW LEE - Associated Press

In this photo taken Wednesday, July 5, 2017, patients stand at the reception in a private clinic in Kiev, Ukraine. The clinic was one of many institutions disrupted by June 27 cyberattack which paralysed computers in Ukraine and across the globe. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Cyberattack on Ukrainian clinics, pharmacies worries experts

By RAPHAEL SATTER and SVETLANA KOZLENKO and DMYTRO VLASOV - Associated Press

Trump administration taps former NATO envoy for Ukraine role

By JOSH LEDERMAN and MATTHEW LEE - Associated Press