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Shoppers take a photo next to prayer notes for passengers aboard Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 at a shopping mall in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Thursday, July 24, 2014. The crash of the Malaysian passenger plane over eastern Ukraine a week ago killed all 298 people. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

U.N. rights chief: Flight MH17 downing possible war crime

By John Heilprin - Associated Press

White House says Russia ‘losing’ war in Ukraine

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

FILE - This, July 16, 2014, file photo shows Russia's President Vladimir Putin as he arrives for an official group photo during the BRICS summit at the Itamaraty palace, in Brasilia, Brazil. Months after Russia annexed Crimea and stepped up support for separatists in eastern Ukraine, Europe and the U.S. are still searching for an effective way to persuade Putin to change course. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File )

HOLMES: What’s at stake in Ukraine?

By Kim R. Holmes

People walking among burning debris at the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 near the village of Hrabove, eastern Ukraine. Ukrainian armed forces mounted a major onslaught against pro-Russian separatist fighters Sunday in an attempt to gain control over the area. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky, File)

Fighting intensifies near MH17 disaster site

Associated Press

Jerzy Dyczynski and Angela Rudhart-Dyczynski whose daughter, 25-year-old Fatima, was a passenger on Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, sit on part of the wreckage of the crashed aircraft in Hrabove, Ukraine, Saturday, July 26, 2014. The couple who live in Perth, Australia, crossed territory held by pro-Russian rebels to reach the wreckage-strewn farm fields outside the village of Hrabove. They last spoke to Fatima shortly before she boarded the flight for Kuala Lumpur in Amsterdam on July 17. Rudhart-Dyczynski said, &quot;We have promised our daughter we will come here.&quot; (AP Photo/Nicholas Garriga)

Ukraine launches offensive to retake Donetsk

By AYSE WIETING and DAVID McHUGH - Associated Press

In this photo taken on Thursday, July 17, 2014, Donetsk People's Republic fighters fill their tank with fuel at a gas station in Snizhne, 100 kilometers (62 miles) east of Donetsk, eastern Ukraine. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

Ukraine launches offensive to retake Donetsk from pro-Russia rebels

Associated Press

A pro-Russian rebel prepares to fire a rocket propelled grenade on the rooftop of an apartment building during clashes during clashes as they attack a border guard base held by Ukrainian troops on the outskirts of Luhansk, eastern Ukraine, Monday, June 2, 2014. Some hundreds of pro-Russia insurgents attacked the base on Monday, with some firing rocket-propelled grenades from the roof of a nearby residential building. At least five rebels were killed when the guards returned fire, a spokesman for the border guard service said. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Russia shipping sophisticated weapons systems to Ukraine separatists

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

Russian soldiers stand near a tank at a former Ukrainian military base in Perevalne, outside Simferopol, Crimea, March 27, 2014. Russia last week completed the annexation of Crimea following a referendum in which an overwhelming number of residents voted to break off from Ukraine and join Russia. The vote, rejected by Ukraine and the West, was hastily called after Russian forces had overtaken the peninsula. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

Evidence shows Russia firing artillery into Ukraine: Pentagon

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

Vladimir Putin Illustration by Gado/Daily Nation, Nairobi, Kenya

CANNON: With Russia, different airline crash, same results

By Lucja Swiatkowski Cannon

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Investigate airliner downing, but not Benghazi?

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

A pro-Russian rebel holds a gun passing by plane wreckage as members of the OSCE mission to Ukraine arrive for a media briefing at the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, near the village of Hrabove, eastern Ukraine, Tuesday, July 22, 2014. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda) ** FIL E**

U.S. intelligence nearly certain pro-Russian separatists downed Malaysian Airlines flight

By Guy Taylor and Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Sept. 5, 2013 file photo, President Barack Obama shakes hands with Russian President Vladimir Putin during arrivals for the G-20 summit at the Konstantin Palace in St. Petersburg, Russia, Thursday, Sept. 5, 2013. Congress is stepping up pressure on the White House to confront Russia over allegations that it is cheating on a key nuclear arms treaty, a faceoff that could further strain U.S.-Moscow relations and dampen President Barack Obama's hopes to add deeper cuts in nuclear arsenals to his legacy. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Putin calls for cease-fire in Ukraine

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

U.S. Marines with Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment board a CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter during a mission July 5, 2014, in Gereshk, Helmand province, Afghanistan. U.S. Marine Corps photo.

Obama orders Pentagon advisers to Ukraine

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

** FILE ** This March 11, 2014, file photo shows Rep. Ed Royce, R-Calif., chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, speaking to reporters after an all-member classified briefing on Ukraine on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Royce: Putin recruiting ‘every skinhead and malcontent around Russia’

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin listens during a meeting in Samara, Russia, Monday, July 21, 2014. Putin has lambasted those who use the downing of a passenger jet in eastern Ukraine for "mercenary objectives," the Kremlin said Monday. In a statement posted on the Kremlin website, Putin again lashed out at Ukraine for ongoing violence with pro-Russian rebels in the eastern part of the country. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky, Presidential Press Service)

Madeleine Albright: Vladimir Putin ‘caught in the web of his own lies’

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 15, 2014, during a news conference about competing bills from the Democrats and Republicans on employee health coverage and birth control under the Affordable Care Act. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Michael Lawson approved as nominee to U.N. aviation body

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times