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U.S. President Donald Trump delivers a speech in Krasinski Square, in Warsaw, Poland, Thursday, July 6, 2017.(AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

The Latest: Trump prepares for meeting with Putin

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Col. Serhiy Demydiuk, the head of Ukraine's national CyberPolice unit talks during an interview with The Associated Press in his office in Kiev, Ukraine, Monday, July 3, 2017. The small Ukrainian tax software company that is accused of being the patient zero of a damaging global cyberepidemic is under investigation and will face charges, Col. Serhiy Demydiuk suggested Monday. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Ukraine: We prevented second cyberattack

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People queue for their turn to pay at a slowly working cash desk in a building supermarket in Kiev, Ukraine, Wednesday, June 28, 2017. The cyberattack ransomware that has paralyzed computers across the world hit Ukraine hardest Tuesday, with victims including top-level government offices, energy companies, banks, cash machines, gas stations, and supermarkets. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Ukraine: Russian security services were behind cyberattack

By HOWARD AMOS - Associated Press

Trucks loaded with containers are lined up outside a terminal at the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust in Mumbai, India, Thursday, June 29, 2017. Operations at a terminal at India's busiest container port have been stalled by the malicious software that suddenly burst across the world’s computer screens Tuesday, another example of the disruption that continues to be felt globally. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)

Global cyberattack seems intent on havoc, not extortion

By Raphael Satter, Frank Bajak and Jan M. Olsen - Associated Press

Trucks loaded with containers are lined up outside a terminal at the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust in Mumbai, India, Thursday, June 29, 2017. Operations at a terminal at India's busiest container port have been stalled by the malicious software that suddenly burst across the world’s computer screens Tuesday, another example of the disruption that continues to be felt globally. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)

Global cyberattack seems intent on havoc, not extortion

By RAPHAEL SATTER and JAN M. OLSEN and FRANK BAJAK - Associated Press

A screen of an idle virus affected cash machine in a state-run OshchadBank says &quot;Sorry for inconvenience/Under repair&quot; in Kiev, Ukraine, Wednesday, June 28, 2017. The cyberattack ransomware that has paralyzed computers across the world hit Ukraine hardest Tuesday, with victims including top-level government offices, energy companies, banks, cash machines, gas stations, and supermarkets. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Global cyberattack may have aimed for havoc, not extortion

By RAPHAEL SATTER and JAN M. OLSEN - Associated Press

In this photo taken July 17, 2016, file photo, Paul Manafort talks to reporters on the floor of the Republican National Convention at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland. Manafort says he’s registering with the Justice Department as a foreign agent. Michael Flynn already did. And in both cases the filings by associates of President Donald Trump will come after the fact and accompanied by the admission that they violated federal law. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Paul Manafort, former Trump campaign chairman, registers as foreign agent

By Chad Day and Jeff Horwitz - Associated Press

A computer screen cyberattack warning notice reportedly holding computer files to ransom, as part of a massive international cyberattack, at an office in Kiev, Ukraine, Tuesday June 27, 2017. (Oleg Reshetnyak via AP)

The Latest: Maersk’s terminals still crippled in cyberattack

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In this March 23, 2016, file photo, a worker checks the radiation level on barrels in a storage of nuclear waste taken from the 4th unit destroyed by the 1986 explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, Chernobyl, Ukraine. A new and highly virulent outbreak of data-scrambling software — apparently sown in Ukraine — caused disruption across the world Tuesday, June 27, 2017. The virus hit the radiation-monitoring at Ukraine's shuttered Chernobyl power plant, site of the world's worst nuclear accident, forcing it into manual operation. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Kaspersky Lab says cyberattack involved ExPetr, a new malware

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A computer screen cyberattack warning notice reportedly holding computer files to ransom, as part of a massive international cyberattack, at an office in Kiev, Ukraine, Tuesday June 27, 2017. (Oleg Reshetnyak via AP)

New cyberattack wallops Europe; spreads more slowly in US

By RAPHAEL SATTER and FRANK BAJAK - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 31, 2014, file photo of A.P. Moller-Maersk containers on a ship in the Panama Canal. Hackers Tuesday June 27, 2017 caused widespread disruption across Europe, hitting Ukraine especially hard. Russia’s Rosneft energy company also reported falling victim to hacking, as did shipping company A.P. Moller-Maersk, which said every branch of its business was affected. (Thomas Borberg/Polfoto via AP,file)

The Latest: Pennsylvania health company restoring network

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President Donald Trump shakes hands with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, June 20, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump meets Ukrainian leader amid Russia investigation

By VIVIAN SALAMA - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin was denounced for aggressions including the annexation of Crimea, intervention in the Syrian civil war, meddling in Ukraine and threatening NATO countries. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

EU extends sanctions against Russia over Crimea for a year

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Illustration on Russian media disinformation in Ukraine by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Ukraine shut down Russian social media outlets

By Dmytro Shymkiv

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko speaks during a news conference in Kiev, Ukraine, Sunday, May 14, 2017. (AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov)

Ukraine blocks social networking sites with new sanctions against Russia

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

In this photo taken Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017, television journalist Julia Kirienko holds up her smartphone to show a text message reading “Ukrainian soldiers, they’ll find your bodies when the snow melts”, in Kiev, Ukraine. Ukrainian soldiers fighting pro-Russian separatists are being bombarded by threats and disinformation via text message, the 21st-century equivalent of dropping leaflets on the battlefield. (AP Photo/Raphael Satter)

‘You’re just meat’ - Ukrainian soldiers get chilling texts

By RAPHAEL SATTER - Associated Press

Ukraine bans American actor Steven Seagal for 5 years

Associated Press

Roman Kolodkin, head of the legal department of the Russian Foreign Affairs ministry, left, waits for the judges to enter the World Court to deliver the order on provisional measures in The Hague, Netherlands, Wednesday, April 19, 2017, in the case brought by the Ukraine against Russia accusing Moscow of financing separatist rebels and racially discriminating against ethnic Tartars and Ukrainians in the annexed Crimea peninsula. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

U.N. court rejects Ukraine request to block rebel funding

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In this July 17, 2016, file photo, then-Donald Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort talks to reporters on the floor of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. A firm headed by Manafort received more than $1.2 million in payments that correspond to entries in a handwritten ledger tied to a pro-Russian political party in Ukraine, according to financial records obtained by The Associated Press. The payments between 2007 and 2009 are the first evidence that Manafort’s consulting firm received funds listed in the so-called Black Ledger, which Ukrainian investigators have been investigating as evidence of off-the-books payments from the Ukrainian Party of Regions. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Paul Manafort’s firm received Ukraine ledger payout: AP exclusive report

By Jack Gillum, Chad Day and Jeff Horwitz - Associated Press