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A Ukrainian refugee walks with her child at a camp in Utopia Park in Iztapalapa, Mexico City, Monday, May 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Live updates | UN: More than 300 evacuated from Mariupol

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

The bodies of unidentified men, believed to be Russian soldiers, arranged in a Z, a symbol of the Russian invasion, lie near a village recently retaken by Ukrainian forces on the outskirts of Kharkiv, Ukraine, Monday, May 2, 2022. The outskirts of Kharkiv have the feel of an open-air morgue, where the dead lie unclaimed and unexplained, sometimes for weeks on end, as Ukrainian and Russian forces fight for control of slivers of land. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

Live updates | Ukrainians wait in Mexico City for US entry

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Natalia Pototska, 43, cries as her grandson Matviy looks on in a car at a center for displaced people in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Monday, May 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Aid workers prep stretchers, toys for Mariupol evacuees

By Cara Anna and Yesica Fisch - Associated Press

Local residents walk along a street market in Mariupol, in territory under the government of the Donetsk People's Republic, eastern Ukraine, Friday, April 29, 2022. This photo was taken during a trip organized by the Russian Ministry of Defense. (AP Photo)

Civilian evacuation from besieged Ukrainian port of Mariupol underway, officials say

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

A dog rides in the back of a car as people fleeing the village of Ruska Lozova arrive at a screening point in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Friday, April 29, 2022. Hundreds of residents have been evacuated to Kharkiv from the nearby village that had been under Russian occupation for more than a month. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

Live updates l Zelenskyy urges Russian troops not to fight

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

People fleeing the village of Ruska Lozova wait at a screening point in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Friday, April 29, 2022. Hundreds of residents have been evacuated to Kharkiv from the nearby village that had been under Russian occupation for more than a month. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

Ukrainians plead for Mariupol rescue; Russian advance crawls

By Mstyslav Chernov and Yesica Fisch - Associated Press

In this image provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, right, and U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres leave a news conference during their meeting in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, April 28, 2022. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)

Live updates | US official: Ukraine resistance slows Russia

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

A priest blesses the remains of three people who died during the Russian occupation and were disinterred from temporary burial sites in Bucha, on the outskirts of Kyiv, on Wednesday, April 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Key players urge accountability for atrocities in Ukraine

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press

A local man sits in front of an apartment building damaged from heavy fighting as he waits for the kettle to boil in an area controlled by Russian-backed separatist forces in Mariupol, Ukraine, Tuesday, April 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Alexei Alexandrov)

Live Updates | Explosions in Ukrainian city of Kherson

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

A destroyed tank and a damaged apartment building from heavy fighting are seen in an area controlled by Russian-backed separatist forces in Mariupol, Ukraine, Tuesday, April 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Alexei Alexandrov)

U.S., allied military leaders defy Kremlin with new Ukraine aid plans

By Mike Glenn and David R. Sands - The Washington Times

People gather Saturday April 23, 2022 at the site of an explosion that took place the day before at an illegal oil refinery in Ohaji-Egbema local government area in Imo state, southeast Nigeria. At least 100 people are feared to have died in the explosion, authorities told The Associated Press, as the search for bodies at the site and for two people suspected of being involved in the incident intensified. (AP Photo)

Manhunt on for suspects as 100 die in Nigeria refinery blast

By Chinedu Asadu - Associated Press

Internally displaced people from Mariupol and nearby towns arrive at a refugee center fleeing from the Russian attacks, in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Thursday, April 21, 2022. Mariupol, which is part of the industrial region in eastern Ukraine known as the Donbas, has been a key Russian objective since the Feb. 24 invasion began. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Live updates | US convening talks on Ukraine’s defense needs

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

FILE - Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, speaks to the media about the Tigray region of Ethiopia during a press conference at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Nov. 3, 2021. The United Nations' human rights office on Friday, April 21, 2022 set out what it said is growing evidence of war crimes since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, declaring that international humanitarian law appears to have been “tossed aside.” Michelle Bachelet said that “our work to date has detailed a horror story of violations perpetrated against civilians.”(Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP, File)

U.N. rights chief sees ‘horror story’ of violations in Ukraine

Associated Press

Ukrainian soldiers walk on a destroyed bridge in Irpin, on the outskirts of Kyiv, on Wednesday, April 20, 2022. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Live updates | Russia-Ukraine War

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Sergei, 11, waits his turn to receive donated food during an aid humanitarian distribution in Bucha, in the outskirts of Kyiv, on Tuesday, April 19, 2022. Citizens of Bucha are still without electricity, water and gas after more than 44 days since the Russian invasion began. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Live updates | US set to send more military aid to Ukraine

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Dead bodies are placed into a mass grave on the outskirts of Mariupol, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 9, 2022 as people cannot bury their dead because of the heavy shelling by Russian forces. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)

Nearly 2,000 civilians have died in Ukraine since Russia’s invasion, according to U.N.

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

The tail of a missile in a yard of a residential area in a village of Senkivka, near the Belarus border, Chernihiv region, Ukraine, Thursday, April 14, 2022. The fluid nature of the conflict, which has seen fighting shift away from areas around the capital and heavily toward Ukraine's east, has made the task of reaching hungry Ukrainians especially difficult. (AP Photo/George Ivanchenko)

Live Updates | Russian’s Good Friday role angers Ukrainians

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

A woman collects wooden planks in a street destroyed by shellings in Chernihiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, April 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Live Updates | Russia-Ukraine War

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Illustration on mischaracterization of climate data by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Europe’s warming fears enable Putin’s destruction of Ukraine

By Editorial Board - The Washington Times

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, right, meets Ukrainian refugee children at Paradisbakken school in Nexoe, as she visits the island of Bornholm in Denmark, Thursday, April 7, 2022. Anna Prokopiuk, center, is from Ukraine but has lived in Denmark for three years and is therefore able to help interpret for the newly arrived refugees. (Pelle Rink/Ritzau Scanpix via AP)

UN: Nearly two-thirds of Ukraine’s children have fled homes

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press