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Pro-Russian soldiers stand outside an Ukrainian air defense military base outside Yevpatoria, Ukraine, Sunday, March 9, 2014. As separatists in Crimea kept up pressure for unification with Moscow, Ukraine on Sunday solemnly commemorated the 200th anniversary of the birth of its greatest poet, with the prime minister vowing not to give up &#8220;a single centimeter&#8221; of Ukrainian territory.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Americans don’t support sending U.S. troops to Ukraine

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

White House press secretary Jay Carney answers questions during his daily news briefing at the White House in Monday, March 10, 2014. Carney spoke about the ongoing situation in the Ukraine and this week's visit of Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk to the White House. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

White House: Exporting natural gas to Europe, Ukraine not the answer

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., questions Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 5, 2014, during the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing focusing on the Defense Department’s budget request for fiscal year 2015. The committee's ranking member Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla. is at left. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

McCain: Putin will not leave Crimea

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

A convoy of military vehicles bearing no license plates travels on the road from Sevastopol to Simferopol, Crimea, Ukraine, Monday, March 10, 2014. Ukraine's foreign minister said Monday his country already feels like it's almost in a state of war after Russian forces took effective control of Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

CARNES: Kissinger’s flawed and offensive analysis of Ukraine

By Ben Carnes

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)

ISTOOK: Meet Vladimir Putin’s best friend — America’s energy red-tape

By Ernest Istook

Packing a punch: "Our task today is to save Ukraine, save peace and sovereignty, unity and integrity, to build a new country," says Vitali Klitschko, a serious contender to lead his country. (Associated Press)

Ex-boxer Klitschko eyes prize in Ukraine politics

By Olga Rudenko — Special to The Washington Times

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 5, 2014, before the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the Defense Department&#8217;s budget request for fiscal year 2015. In response to Russia's takeover of Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula, Hagel said the U.S. was stepping up joint aviation training with Polish forces. The Pentagon also is increasing American participation in NATO's air policing mission in its Baltic countries, he said. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

U.S. deploys 12 F-16 fighter jets to Poland as exercise in response to Ukraine situation

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama return to Washington after spending the weekend in Florida. (Associated Press)

As Crimea falls, Obama takes Key Largo golf vacation, Biden hits Virgin Islands

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Ukraine's Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk speaks during a media conference at NATO headquarters in Brussels on Thursday, March 6, 2014. Yatsenyuk is in Brussels to meet with EU heads of state and NATO officials to discuss the current situation in Ukraine. (AP Photo/Eric Vidal)

Ukrainian Prime Minister Yatsenyuk to meet with Obama at White House

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Topeka family finally makes it home from Ukraine

Associated Press

FILE - In this June 15, 2011, file photo, then-Secretary of Defense Robert Gates testifies regarding the Department of Defense Fiscal Year 2012 budget request before the Senate Appropriations Committee Subcommittee on Defense on Capitol Hill in Washington. Gates asserts in a new memoir that President Barack Obama grew frustrated with U.S. policy in Afghanistan and that Vice President Joe Biden has been wrong on nearly every foreign policy and national security issue. He also accuses members of Congress of inquisition-like treatment of administration officials. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

Gates: Obama strategy won’t stop Putin

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Rep. Griffin says ‘no’ vote on Ukraine was error

Associated Press

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas speaks at the Conservative Political Action Committee annual conference, Thursday, March 6, 2014, in National Harbor, Md. Thursday marks the first day of the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, which brings together prospective presidential candidates, conservative opinion leaders and tea party activists from coast to coast. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

CPAC 2014: Conservatives say Ukraine crisis fueled by Obama weakness, ‘diplomatic babble’

By Phillip Swarts - The Washington Times

A convoy of military vehicles bearing no license plates travels on the road from Feodosia to Simferopol in the Crimea, Ukraine, Saturday, March 8, 2014. More than 60 military trucks bearing no license plate numbers was headed from the eastern city of Feodosia toward the city of Simferopol, the regional capital. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

Russia reinforces military presence in Crimea

By Yuras Karmanau and Dalton Bennett - Associated Press

Biathlete Mykhaylo Tkachenko, representing Ukraine, enters the arena during the opening ceremony of the 2014 Winter Paralympics at the Fisht Olympic stadium in Sochi, Russia, Friday, March 7, 2014. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

Plea for peace and Ukraine’s independence in Sochi

By ROB HARRIS - Associated Press

The team of doctors involved in treating Yulia Tymoshenko, from left, Peter Vajkoczy, Norbert Haas, Matthias Endres, Anett Reisshauer and Karl Max Einhaeupl attend a press conference at Charite Hospital in Berlin, Germany, Saturday March 8, 2014. Ukraine's former prime minister, Yulia Tymoshenko, has started medical treatment at Berlin's Charite hospital after arriving late Friday, but doctors treating her say it's too soon to say how long this will take. Hospital chairman Karl Max Einhaeupl says doctors will decide by Monday whether the 53-year-old needs an operation for her severe back pain resulting from slipped discs she suffered more than two years ago. (AP Photo/dpa,Kay Nietfeld)

Ailing Tymoshenko may get back operation in Berlin

By FRANK JORDANS - Associated Press

22 Mormon missionaries pulled from Ukraine

Associated Press

**FILE** President Obama waves before his departure on Air Force One from Bradley Air National Guard Base in East Granby, Conn., on March 5, 2014. Obama, who was heading to Boston, was in Connecticut to talk about increasing the federal minimum wage. (Associated Press)

Obamas, Bidens jetting off to warm resorts for mini-vacations

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

FILE - In this file photo dated Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014, a skier passes by the Olympic rings at the 2014 Winter Olympics, in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. Overshadowed by the international crisis over Ukraine, Russia welcomes the sporting world back to Sochi this week for the Winter Paralympics that will be snubbed by some politicians and will struggle to match the successful Winter Olympics that ended less than two weeks ago in the Russian Black Sea resort. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, FILE)

Ukraine decides to compete in Paralympics in Sochi

Associated Press

Biathlete Mykhaylo Tkachenko, representing Ukraine, enters the arena during the opening ceremony of the 2014 Winter Paralympics at the Fisht Olympic stadium in Sochi, Russia, Friday, March 7, 2014. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

Putin declares Sochi Paralympics open amid Ukrainian protest

Associated Press