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Ukrainian tanks are transported from their base in Perevalnoe, outside Simferopol, Crimea, Wednesday, March 26, 2014. Ukraine has started withdrawing its troops and weapons from Crimea, now controlled by Russia. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

House and Senate pass aid to Ukraine, sanctions on Russia

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

A tank maneuvers near 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)

Ukraine’s top security official: Individual sanctions in Russia not enough

By Stephen Dinan and Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Ukrainian tanks are transported from their base in Perevalnoe, outside Simferopol, Crimea, Wednesday, March 26, 2014. Ukraine has started withdrawing its troops and weapons from Crimea, now controlled by Russia. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

Platini ‘fed up’ with calls to boycott 2018 WCup

Associated Press

President Barack Obama is greeted by Belgian King Phillippe, left, and Belgian Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo upon his arrival on Air Force One at Brussels International Airport, Tuesday, March 25, 2014 in Brussels, Belgium. Obama is visiting Brussels to attend European Union and NATO summits. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama prods allies while downplaying Russian power

By Jim Kuhnhenn - Associated Press

FILE - This March 20, 2014 file photo shows President Barack Obama making a statement on Ukraine, on the South Lawn at the White House in Washington. Even if Russia makes no further advances into Ukraine, can the West’s relationship with Moscow go back to business as usual? That’s the complex question underlying President Barack Obama’s discussions in Europe this week, one that poses particular challenges for the U.S. leader, whose foreign policy agenda has seemingly inextricable links to Russia. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

Analysis: Russia deeply linked to Obama priorities

By JULIE PACE - Associated Press

** FILE ** Russian paratroopers march during the Victory Day Parade, which commemorates the 1945 defeat of Nazi Germany in Moscow, Russia, May 9, 2011. (Associated Press)

Russian paratroopers along Ukraine border conduct training to take over airfields

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

In this March 24, 2014 photo winter wheat grows near Wichita, Kan. Political instability in Ukraine _coupled with potential freeze damage to winter wheat in the United States and a deepening drought in some major wheat producing countries _ are conspiring to significantly drive up wheat prices, economists said Tuesday, March 25, 2014. (AP Photo/The Wichita Eagle, Mike Hutmacher)

Political instability, weather spur wheat prices

By ROXANA HEGEMAN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 2010 photo released on Saturday, Oct. 30, 2010, then Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin carries a hunting rifle during his trip in Ubsunur Hollow in the Siberian Tyva region (also referred to as Tuva), on the border with Mongolia, Russia. Vladimir Putin turns 60-years old on Sunday, Oct. 7, 2012, and has recently sought to demonstrate his youthful vigor by many personal endeavors, but while he has shown creativity in his action-man stunts, the Russian president seems surprisingly vulnerable to the vagaries of oil prices. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Dmitry Astakhov, Government Press Service, file)

Inside the Ring: U.S. fears Russia planning to federalize Ukraine, alarming Congress

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Ukrainian tanks are transported from their base in Perevalne, outside Simferopol, Crimea, Wednesday, March 26, 2014. Ukraine has started withdrawing its troops and weapons from Crimea, now controlled by Russia. Even if Russia makes no further advances into Ukraine, can the West’s relationship with Moscow go back to business as usual? That’s the complex question underlying President Barack Obama’s discussions in Europe this week, one that poses particular challenges for the U.S. leader, whose foreign policy agenda has seemingly inextricable links to Russia.(AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

6 Ukrainian officers freed by Russia; 5 captive

By PETER LEONARD - Associated Press

This photo taken March 20, 2014 shows President Barack Obama speaking in Orlando, Fla. Foreign policy used to stand out as a not-so-bleak spot in the public’s waning assessment of Barack Obama. Not anymore. He’s getting low marks for handling Russia’s swoop into Ukraine, and more Americans than ever disapprove of the way Obama is doing his job, according to a new poll. Close to 9 out of 10 Americans support sanctions as a response to Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula. They are divided over whether the U.S. sanctions so far are about right or not strong enough, the Associated Press-GfK poll found. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Poll: Ukraine crisis hurting Obama at home

By CONNIE CASS and JENNIFER AGIESTA - Associated Press

President Barack Obama pauses before answering a questions during a joint news conference with EU Council President Herman Van Rompuy and EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso at the EU-US summit meeting, Wednesday, march 26, 2014, at the EU Council building in Brussels, Belgium. 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)

Amid Russia’s seizure of Crimea, Obama urges NATO members to ‘chip in’

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Indiana Sen. Donnelly backs more Russian sanctions

Associated Press

Despite chill, cooperation between US and Russia

By LARA JAKES and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV - Associated Press

U.S. President Barack Obama, left, shakes hands with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, right, as they pose for a group photo on the last day of the Nuclear Security Summit (NSS) in The Hague, Netherlands, Tuesday, March 25, 2014. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)

Obama expresses concern Russia moving on Ukraine

By JIM KUHNHENN - Associated Press

Chicago, Moscow sister-relationship at question

Associated Press

Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

CARSON: Expanding our energy resources serves peace

By Ben S. Carson

A Ukrainian marine reacts as his comrades leave the base in Feodosia, Crimea, Tuesday, March 25, 2014. In Crimea, Ukrainian soldiers piled onto buses and began their journey to Ukrainian territory on Tuesday, as former comrades saluted them from outside a base overrun by Russian forces. (AP Photo/Valeriy Kulyk)

Busloads of Ukrainian troops leave Crimea

By Adam Pemble and Peter Leonard - Associated Press

U.S. President Barack Obama, left, Pakistan's Prime Minister Mohammad Nawaz Sharif, center, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, attend the opening session of the Nuclear Summit in The Hague, the Netherlands, on Monday, March 24, 2014. (AP Photo/Yves Herman, POOL)

Obama’s Russia sanctions unlikely to make impact, experts say

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama Obama, accompanied by Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, speaks during their joint news conference at the conclusion of the Nuclear Security Summit in The Hague, Netherlands, Tuesday, March 25, 2014. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama doubts Russian retreat in Ukraine, threatens tougher sanctions

By Dave Boyer and Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times