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** FILE ** A pro-Russian soldier is back dropped by Russia flag while manning a machine-gun outside an Ukrainian military base in Perevalne, Ukraine, Saturday, March 15, 2014. (Associated Press)

Russian tanks enter Ukraine; ‘encroachment’ condemned by world leaders

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks to the media after his talks with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in Minsk, Belarus, Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2014. Following Putin and Poroshenko's meetings that included a one-on-one session that stretched into the night, there was no indication of a quick end to the fighting that has engulfed eastern Ukraine. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, Pool)

VANNESS: Russia’s energy hegemony

By Alex VanNess

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, left, waves to people in Kiev, Ukraine, Sunday, Aug. 24, 2014. Ukraine's president announced plans Sunday to boost his country's defense spending by an estimated 50 percent as government forces seek to overpower pro-Russian separatists in the east. President Petro Poroshenko made his pledge to spend an extra 40 billion hryvnia ($3 billion) by 2017 during a speech marking Ukraine's independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. (AP Photo/Presidential Press Service, Mykhailo Markiv, Pool)

Ukrainian president dissolves parliament

By Jim Heintz - Associated Press

Ukraine accuses Russia of ‘direct invasion’ using aid convoy

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

Ukrainian border guards look at the first aid truck as it passes the border post at Izvaryne, eastern Ukraine, Friday, Aug. 22, 2014. The first trucks in a Russian aid convoy crossed into eastern Ukraine on Friday, seemingly without Kiev's approval, after more than a week's delay amid suspicions the mission was being used as a cover for an invasion by Moscow. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

Russian vehicles in Ukraine ‘a flagrant violation’: White House

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Mark Paslawsky died Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2014 while fighting with Ukraine's volunteer force in Donbas. (YouTube, Vice News)

West Point graduate who joined Ukrainian army unit died in ‘street battle’

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

A Russian sport called the Tank Biathlon has gripped China's military buffs and has been intensely reported and discussed in the media, including on hundreds of China's Internet-based military forums. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Inside China: Tanked in Russia

By Miles Yu

A worker takes a selfie before removing a yellow and blue Ukrainian flag attached by protesters atop Stalin-era skyscraper in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2014. Protesters on Wednesday scaled one of Moscow's famed Stalin-era skyscrapers and painted the Soviet star on its spire in the national colors of Ukraine. The dangerous prank, which set Russian social networking sites abuzz, drew a harsh response from the police.(AP Photo/Ilya Varlamov)

Activists plant Ukraine flag atop famous Moscow building

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

Ukrainian troops inch closer to rebel city Donetsk

By Peter Leonard - Associated Press

Pro-Russian rebels hold their positions on the frontline near the village of Krasnodon, eastern Ukraine, Friday, Aug. 15, 2014. Russia let Ukrainian officials inspect an aid convoy while it was still on Russian soil Friday and agreed that the Red Cross can distribute the goods in Ukraine's rebel-held city of Luhansk. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

Ukraine: Rebels fire on civilian convoy

By Jim Heintz - Associated Press

Drivers prepare to show the cargo to journalists in a field where the aid convoy is parked in Kamensk-Shakhtinsky, Russia, Friday, Aug. 15, 2014. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

Ukraine: We destroyed Russian military incursion

By Alexander Roslyakov and Jim Heintz - Associated Press

U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel speaks to the media during a press conference at the conclusion of the AUSMIN talks at Admiralty House in Sydney, Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2014. Hagel and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry are meeting with their Australian counterparts at the annual Australia-U.S. Ministerial Consultations (AUSMIN), which will focus on regional security and enhanced military co-operation. (AP Photo/Dan Himbrechts, Pool)

Russian assures Hagel on Ukrainian relief

By ROBERT BURNS - Associated Press

Russian Premier Dmitry Medvedev announces sanctions at the Cabinet meeting in Moscow on Thursday, Aug. 7, 2014.The Russian government has banned all imports of meat, fish, milk and milk products and fruit and vegetables from the United States, the European Union, Australia, Canada and Norway, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev announced Thursday. The move was taken on orders from President Vladimir Putin in response to sanctions imposed on Russia by the West over the crisis in Ukraine. The ban has been introduced for one year. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Dmitry Astakhov, Government Press Service)

Putin retaliates: Russia bans food from West, extends Snowden asylum

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

A Ukrainian government army soldier rests on his tank at a block-post in the village of Debaltseve, eastern Ukraine Friday, Aug. 1, 2014. With the sound of artillery blasts at a distance, dozens of international investigators arrived Friday at the eastern Ukraine site where Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 crashed and began a painstaking search for the remains of as many as 80 victims. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

Pentagon wants extra $19M to equip, train Ukrainian troops

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

People walk among the debris, at the crash site of a passenger plane near the village of Hrabove, Ukraine, in this July 17, 2014, file photo. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky, File)

Investigators reach Ukraine jet crash site

By Mstyslav Chernov - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin heads the Cabinet meeting in the Novo-Ogaryovo residence, outside Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, July 30, 2014. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky, Presidential Press Service)

Russians are unfazed by the West’s response to Putin’s actions in Ukraine: poll

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

House Speaker John Boehner announced June 25 that the House was going to sue President Obama. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

O’DONNELL: Reaction to Boehner lawsuit, IRS scandal affects Russian conflict

By Christine O’Donnell

BLOCK: No better friend in the world

By Josh Block

Russian President Vladimir Putin listens during a meeting with Mikhail Fedotov, head of presidential human rights council, in the Novo-Ogaryovo residence, outside Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, July 29, 2014. Putin asked Fedotov to help coordinate assistance for refugees from Ukraine. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti Kremlin, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service)

Putin a ‘megalomaniac’ who must be challenged with force: Sen. Johnson

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times