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People gathered near of a barricade with razor wires at the regional administration building in Donetsk, Ukraine, Monday, April 7, 2014. Outside the Donetsk building, a barricade of car tires and razor wire was built up to thwart police from retaking it. Interfax cited police in Donetsk as saying one armed group fired into the air and attempted to seize the regional state television broadcaster Monday but retreated after police and guards in the building also fired warning shots into the air. (AP Photo/Andrey Basevych)

Ukraine’s interior minister: Pro-Russia protesters driven out of Kharkiv

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Secretary of State John F. Kerry defends the Obama administration's response to Russia's moves on eastern Ukraine during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing. (Associated Press Photographs)

Amid growing unrest, GOP presses for arming Ukraine

By Guy Taylor and Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

** FILE ** U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, listens as European Union High Representative Catherine Ashton speaks to the media at the start of a U.S.-EU Energy Dialogue meeting at the headquarters of the European Union in Brussels Wednesday, April 2, 2014. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, Pool)

John Kerry: Russia to face tougher new sanctions if meddling in Ukraine continues

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

Pro-Russian activists with Russian national flags storm the Ukrainian regional office of the Security Service in Luhansk, Ukraine, Sunday, April 6, 2014. In Luhansk, 30 kilometers (20 miles) west of the Russian border, hundreds of people surrounded the local headquarters of the security service and later scaled the facade to plant a Russian flag on the roof. (AP Photo/Igor Golovniov)

Pro-Russians call east Ukraine region independent

By PETER LEONARD - Associated Press

People gathered near of a barricade with razor wires at the regional administration building in Donetsk, Ukraine, Monday, April 7, 2014. Outside the Donetsk building, a barricade of car tires and razor wire was built up to thwart police from retaking it. Interfax cited police in Donetsk as saying one armed group fired into the air and attempted to seize the regional state television broadcaster Monday but retreated after police and guards in the building also fired warning shots into the air. (AP Photo/Andrey Basevych)

Kerry to meet with top diplomats on Ukraine

By JOSH LEDERMAN and LARA JAKES - Associated Press

People gather near a barricade built up to thwart police from retaking the regional administration building in Donetsk, Ukraine, late Monday. (Associated Press)

Republicans hit administration for timid response to Russian war gaming

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

OLIVER: After Ukraine, what should U.S. strategy be in Europe?

By Daniel Oliver

Activists prepare a barricade inside the regional administration building in Donetsk, Ukraine, Monday, April 7, 2014. A Ukrainian news agency is reporting that pro-Russian separatists who have seized the regional administration building in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk proclaimed the region an independent republic. (AP Photo/Alexander Ermochenko)

White House warns Russia against ‘overtly or covertly’ seizing more Ukrainian territory

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

In this photo taken on Saturday, April 5, 2014, Oleh Lyashko, center left, leader of Ukrainian Radical Party and presidential candidate who supported the protests that ousted Russian-leaning president Viktor Yanukovych, poses with Ukrainian soldiers and officers at their camp near Ukraine-Russian border outside Chernihiv, 140km (87 miles) northeast of Kiev, Ukraine. Ukraine's security service said Saturday it has detained a 15-strong armed gang planning to seize power in an eastern province on the border with Russia. (AP Photo/Osman Karimov)

Pro-Russians storm Ukraine government buildings

By PETER LEONARD - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 1, 2014, file photo, Rep. Cory Gardner, R-Colo., officially announces his candidacy for the U.S. Senate at Denver Lumber Company in Denver. Gardner will run against Democratic Sen. Mark Udall. The Senate race in Colorado has shot toward the top of the nation&#8217;s most competitive contests this midterm election year, giving the Democratic incumbent a tougher battle than he expected and Republicans a new pickup opportunity in their drive to win the chamber&#8217;s majority. Udall responded to Gardner&#8217;s surprise challenge by quickly trying to define his opponent as an extremist. (AP Photo/Chris Schneider, File)

House Republicans to push gas exports

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Ukrainian soldier reinforce a check point in the village of Strilkove, Ukraine, Monday, March 17, 2014. Ukraine's parliament on Monday voted for a partial military mobilization in response to Russia's invasion onto the Ukrainian territory. (AP Photo/Petro Zadorozhnyy)

Ukraine foils coup attempt; 300 machine guns, antitank grenade launcher seized

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** FILE ** Ronald McDonald. (Associated Press)

Ronald McDonald splits after Russians move in; hamburger chain closes in Crimea

By Phillip Swarts - The Washington Times

U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel speaks to members of a travel press pool, Friday, April 4, 2014, in flight, while en route to Tokyo, from Honolulu. Hagel is traveling to Japan, China and Mongolia. (AP Photo/Alex Wong, Pool)

Hagel: US strongly committed to protecting Japan

By LOLITA C. BALDOR - Associated Press

In this photo taken Tuesday, April 1, 2014, Viktor Levchenko, 36, a patient of treatment for drug addiction, poses at a bus stop with an advert reading &quot;Rehabilitation of drug and alcohol addicts&quot; in Sevastopol, Crimea. Across the Black Sea peninsula, some 800 heroin addicts and other needle-drug users take part in methadone programs, seen as an important part of efforts to curb HIV infections by taking the patients away from hypodermic needles that can spread the AIDS-causing virus. After Russia's annexation of Crimea methadone was banned. The ban could undermine years of efforts to reduce the spread of AIDS in Crimea. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

Crimea side-effect: Addicts deprived of methadone

By LAURA MILLS - Associated Press

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov attends a news conference after meeting with Foreign Ministers of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) in Moscow, Russia, Friday, April 4, 2014. Russia had no connection to the snipers in Ukraine and could not have any relation, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Friday in Moscow after the meeting with Foreign Ministers of the CIS. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)

Russian, Ukrainian soccer clubs cancel game

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A spiraling torque from the second century A.D., is displayed as part of the exhibit called The Crimea - Gold and Secrets of the Black Sea, at Allard Pierson historical museum in Amsterdam Friday April 4, 2014. The museum has gotten more than the bronze swords, golden helmets and precious gems it bargained for as it is unsure where to return the collection after Russia annexed Crimea. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Dutch doubt where to return Crimean gold

By TOBY STERLING - Associated Press

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov attends a news conference after meeting with Foreign Ministers of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) in Moscow, Russia, Friday, April 4, 2014. Russia had no connection to the snipers in Ukraine and could not have any relation, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Friday in Moscow after the meeting with Foreign Ministers of the CIS. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)

Russian, Ukrainian clubs cancel football friendly

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UK asks EU to prepare more sanctions options

By ELENA BECATOROS and NATALIYA VASILEVA - Associated Press

U.S. Air Force Gen. Philip Breedlove, left, the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, speaks to colleagues during a meeting of the North Atlantic Council with Non-NATO ISAF Contributing Nations at NATO headquarters in Brussels on Wednesday, April 2, 2014. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

Ukrainian officers join NATO drills in Bulgaria

By VESELIN TOSHKOV - Associated Press

President Barack Obama meets with NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen in Brussels, Belgium, Wednesday, March 26, 2014. Obama is on a one day trip to Belgium to shore up commitments he received from allies in The Hague, Netherlands, to reassure Eastern Europeans members of NATO that the alliance will stand by them and to make a larger point about European security a quarter-century after the fall of the Iron Curtain. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama signs law providing Ukraine $1B in loan guarantees

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