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Joe Biden retreats from angry crowd in Ukraine

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

US Vice President Joe Biden, center, gestures as he addresses entrepreneurs from around the Middle East during the opening session of the the Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Marrakech, Morocco, Thursday, Nov. 20, 2014. US ambassador to Morocco Dwight Bush is seated left and Moroccan entrepreneur Yasmine El Baggari right. Biden is attending the 5th annual Global Entrepreneurship Summit established by the U.S. in the latest vote of confidence for this North African kingdom. (AP Photo/Paul Schemm)

Joe Biden arrives In Ukraine; nonlethal aid announcement expected

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

Russian solders with their several military vehicle gather at the rail road crossing about 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Ukrainian border at Rostov-on-Don region, Russia, early Friday, Aug. 15, 2014. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

NATO: Russia engaged in ‘serious military buildup’ near Ukrainian border

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Fighting has continued in eastern Ukraine despite a September cease-fire agreement forged with Russia. (Associated Press)

Ukraine: Security deteriorating in rebel-held east

By Peter Leonard - Associated Press

This is a Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2014, file photo provided by Britain's Royal Air Force of a Russian military long-range bomber aircraft photographed by an intercepting RAF quick reaction Typhoon (QRA) as it flies in international airspace. Russia's defense minister says the military will conduct regular long-range bomber patrols, ranging from the Arctic Ocean to the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico. (AP Photo/Royal AIr Force)

Russian bomber patrols to reach Gulf of Mexico

By Vladimir Isachenkov - Associated Press

Fighting has continued in eastern Ukraine despite a September cease-fire agreement forged with Russia. (Associated Press)

Russia pushes into Ukraine, prompting Obama rebuke but no new sanctions

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

President Obama joins Philippine President Benigno Aquino III (second right), Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit Tuesday in Beijing. (Associated Press)

Obama, Vladimir Putin battle for China business alliance in Beijing

By Ben Wolfgang and Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Unmarked military vehicles parked on a road outside the separatist rebel-held eastern Ukrainian town of Snizhne, 80 kilometers (50 miles) from Donetsk on Saturday Nov. 8, 2014. AP reporters saw more than 80 military vehicles on the move Saturday in separatist-controlled areas, indicating intensified hostilities may lie ahead. (AP Photo/Mstyslav Chernov)

Ukraine rebels seen moving large military convoys

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Relatives of 18-year-old Andrei Yeliseyev and 14-year-old Daniil Kuznetsov cry during a funeral at a local cemetery in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, Friday, Nov. 7, 2014. The rebel stronghold of Donetsk on Friday mourned the two teenagers who were killed in Wednesday's artillery strike on a high school on the city's western outskirts. (AP Photo/Mstyslav Chernov)

Ukraine accuses Russia of sending dozens of tanks

By Peter Leonard - Associated Press

A child holds a Ukrainian flag during a rally against voting in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions in Kiev, Ukraine Sunday, Nov. 2, 2014. Some of participants are refugees from Donetsk and Luhansk regions. (AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov)

LYOVOCHKINA: The real meaning of unity for Ukraine

By Julia Lyovochkina

The Republican takeover of the Senate may pave the way for Sen. John McCain (left) and other GOP foreign policy hawks like Sen. Lindsey Graham to try to play "back-seat driver" to the White House, but at the end of the day, "if the president doesn't want to do what they push for, that's entirely up to him," said one senior congressional aide. (Associated Press)

Republican Senate takeover gives war hawks, neocons bully pulpit

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Since Russia's annexation of Crimea in March, religious groups there are facing persecution and restrictions on their ministry. Catholics, Ukrainian Orthodox of the Kyiv Patriarchate and Muslims are all facing persecution from local authorities, and anticipate that they may have to go underground in January, when laws change. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Muslims, Christians face new crackdown in Crimea

By Sofia Kochmar - Catholic News Agency

Election officials empty a ballot box during rebel elections at a polling station in the city of Donetsk, eastern Ukraine Sunday, Nov. 2, 2014. The pro-Russian rebels are holding the elections that were dismissed by Ukraine and the West as illegitimate. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

Russia backs Ukrainians separatists’ election

By Nataliya Vasilyeva - Associated Press

The Ukrainian national emblem is seen through a sticker with the rebel eagle symbol and the words Donetsk Peoples Republic on the ballot boxes at a polling station in the city of Donetsk, eastern Ukraine Friday, Oct. 31, 2014. On Sunday Nov. 2 supreme council and presidential elections will be held in Donetsk Peoples Republic. The eagle is a symbol of rebels Donetsk Peoples Republic, being placed over the trident national emblem of Ukraine. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

Ukraine rebels to hold election: ‘We are legitimizing our government’

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Coal miners stuck in the middle of Ukraine’s war

By Nataliya Vasilyeva - Associated Press

A woman sells vegetables in a street near Kiev's Independence Square, Ukraine, Monday, Oct. 27, 2014. Two pro-European parties that campaigned for tough reforms to battle corruption shared the lead Monday after Ukraine's parliamentary election, according to partial results. With more than half the votes counted, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk's Popular Front was leading with 21.6 percent of the vote while President Petro Poroshenko's party had captured 21.5 percent. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Obama charges Russia with interference in Ukraine elections

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russia, Friday, Oct. 24, 2014. The United States is destabilizing the global world order by trying to enforce its will, Russian President Vladimir Putin declared Friday, warning that the world will face new wars if Washington fails to respect the interests of other countries. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service)

Putin blasts U.S. in speech ‘reminiscent of the Cold War’: ‘The bear … will not surrender’

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

An F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft takes off for a night mission at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., Oct. 30, 2012. (U.S. Air Force photo by Val Gempis) ** FILE **

Vladimir Putin emboldened by weak U.S. response to Russian aggression

By Guy Taylor and Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times