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Russian businessman and founder of USM Holdings Alisher Usmanov points while speaking to Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, at the Lebedinsky GOK JSC, in Gubkin, Belgorod Region, Russia, July 14, 2017. The U.S. Treasury Department on April 12, 2023, announced new sanctions aimed at Usmanov, targeting the financial network of one of Russia's wealthiest businessmen. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP) **FILE**

U.S., U.K. aim sanctions at Russian oligarchs’ finance networks

By Aamer Madhani - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Russian Health Minister Mikhail Murashko at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Friday, April 7, 2023. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Russian defector describes Putin as a paranoid war criminal

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

French President Emmanuel Macron, right, and Chinese President Xi Jinping take part in a Franco-Chinese business council meeting in Beijing, Thursday, April 6, 2023. (Ludovic Marin/Pool via AP)

Chinese President Xi calls for Ukraine peace talks

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In this image from video provided by the Dossier Center, a London-based investigative group funded by Russian opposition figure Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Gleb Karakulov speaks during an interview in Turkey in December 2022. Karakulov, who was responsible for setting up secure communications for Russian President Vladimir Putin, said moral opposition to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and his fear of dying there drove him to speak out, despite the risks to himself and his family. He said he hoped to inspire other Russians to speak out also. “Our President has become a war criminal,” he said. “It is time to end this war and stop being silent.” (Dossier Center via AP)

Elite Putin security officer defects, calls Russian leader a ‘war criminal’

By Erika Kinetz - Associated Press

In this image from video provided by the Dossier Center, a London-based investigative group funded by Russian opposition figure Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Gleb Karakulov speaks during an interview in Turkey in December 2022. Karakulov, who was responsible for setting up secure communications for Russian President Vladimir Putin, said moral opposition to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and his fear of dying there drove him to speak out, despite the risks to himself and his family. He said he hoped to inspire other Russians to speak out also. “Our President has become a war criminal,” he said. “It is time to end this war and stop being silent.” (Dossier Center via AP)

Antiwar officer from Vladimir Putin’s elite security team defects

By Erika Kinetz - Associated Press

This photo provided by the North Korean government shows what it says is a ballistic missile in North Pyongan Province, North Korea, on March 19, 2023. North Korea says its ballistic missile launch over the weekend simulated a nuclear attack against South Korea. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this image distributed by the North Korean government. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified. Korean language watermark on image as provided by source reads: "KCNA" which is the abbreviation for Korean Central News Agency. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)

Nuclear-armed North Korea threatens all nations

By Joseph R. DeTrani

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a ceremony to open new pharmaceutical production facilities in the Kaliningrad Region, Mordovia and St Petersburg via videoconference in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, March 30, 2023. An international arrest warrant for President Vladimir Putin raises the prospect of justice for the man whose country invaded Ukraine but complicates efforts to end that war in peace talks. (Gavriil Grigorov/Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

War-crimes warrant for Putin could complicate Ukraine peace

By Mike Corder - Associated Press

A senior priest of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church blesses parishioners in the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra monastery complex in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 29, 2023. The Russian invasion of Ukraine is reverberating in a struggle for control of a monastery complex. The government says it's evicting the Ukrainian Orthodox Church from the complex as of March 29, accusing it of pro-Russia actions and ideology. (AP Photo/Andrew Kravchenko)

Ukraine asks court to put Orthodox leader under house arrest

By Karl Ritter - Associated Press

Russian recruits walk to take a train at a railway station in Prudboi, the Volgograd region of Russia, on Sept. 29, 2022. A campaign to replenish Russian troops in Ukraine with more soldiers appears to be underway again, with makeshift recruitment centers popping up in cities and towns, and state institutions posting ads promising cash bonuses and benefits to entice men to sign contracts enabling them to be sent into the battlefield. (AP Photo, File)

Putin expands military draft, risking social tensions in Russia

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

The Wall Street Journal journalist Evan Gershkovich is shown in this undated photo. Russia's security service arrested the American reporter for The Wall Street Journal on espionage charges, the first time a U.S. correspondent has been detained on spying accusations since the Cold War, the Federal Security Service, known by the acronym FSB, said Thursday, March 30, 2023. The newspaper denied the allegations and demanded his release. (The Wall Street Journal via AP)

Russian spy charges for U.S. reporter spark outrage

By Tom Howell Jr. and Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, presents a medal to Russian cellist Sergei Roldugin, during an awarding ceremony in Moscow's Kremlin, Russia, on Thursday, Sept. 22, 2016. Four former bankers with the now-shuttered Swiss affiliate of a major Russian bank have gone on trial over allegations that they didn't properly check accounts opened in the name of a Russian cellist with longtime ties to President Vladimir Putin. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev, Pool, File)

4 bankers convicted over Swiss account of longtime Putin pal

By Jamey Keaten - Associated Press

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy gestures as he speaks during an interview with Julie Pace, senior vice president and executive editor of The Associated Press, on a train traveling from the Sumy region to Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday March 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Ukraine’s Zelenskyy is ‘ready’ for Chinese leader to visit

By Julie Pace and Hanna Arhirova - Associated Press

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy waves goodbye after an interview with The Associated Press on a train traveling from the Sumy region to Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday March 28, 2023. In the interview, Zelenskyy warned that unless his nation wins a drawn-out battle in the key eastern city of Bakhmut, Russia could begin building international support for a deal that could require Ukraine to make unacceptable compromises. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Ukraine’s Zelenskyy is ‘ready’ for Chinese leader to visit

By Julie Pace and Hanna Arhirova - Associated Press

In this photo taken from video provided by the Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2022, The Russian army's Iskander missile launchers take positions during drills in Russia. Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that Russia has helped upgrade 10 Belarusian aircraft to make them capable to carry nuclear weapons and also provided Belarus with nuclear-capable Iskander short range missiles as Moscow plans to station nuclear weapons in Belarus. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP, File)

Belarus and Russia bringing Europe to ‘brink of nuclear war,’ opposition leader Tsikhanouskaya warns

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a Security Council meeting in Moscow, Russia, Friday, March 24, 2023. (Alexei Babushkin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Putin says Russia will station tactical nukes in Belarus

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Ukrainian servicemen fold the national flag over the coffin of their comrade Andrii Neshodovskiy during the funeral ceremony in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, March 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Ukraine demands emergency UN meeting over Putin nuclear plan

By Karl Ritter - Associated Press

Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman and the head of the United Russia party Dmitry Medvedev speaks to the Russian media at the Gorki state residence, outside Moscow, Russia, Thursday, March 23, 2023. (Ekaterina Shtukina/Sputnik Pool Photo via AP)

Russia’s security chief blasts West, dangles nuclear threats

By Vladimir Isachenkov - Associated Press

Former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign event at the South Carolina Statehouse, Jan. 28, 2023, in Columbia, S.C.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Trump arrested? Fake AI images spread online

By Arijeta Lajka and Philip Marcelo - Associated Press

Chinese President Xi Jinping, center left, and Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, walk after their dinner at The Palace of the Facets in the Moscow Kremlin, Russia, Tuesday, March 21, 2023. (Grigory Sysoyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

China calls Xi’s Russia visit one of friendship, peace

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A Ukrainian Mi-24 attack helicopter releases flares after an attack on Russian positions during a combat mission in Donetsk region, Ukraine, Sunday, March 19, 2023. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Blinken warns of ‘Pandora’s box’ if Ukraine support falters

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times