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Illustration on Biden's foreign policy by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Biden has overseen most catastrophic foreign policy failures in recent history

By Robert Wilkie

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett delivers a statement at the Knesset, Israel's parliament, in Jerusalem on June 29, 2022. Bennett, a former Israeli prime minister who served briefly as a mediator at the start of Russia's war with Ukraine, said during an interview posted online Saturday, Feb. 4, 2023, he drew a promise from the Russian president not to kill his Ukrainian counterpart. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov, File)

Former Israeli PM: Putin promised not to kill Zelenskyy

By Tia Goldenberg - Associated Press

Illustration on the importance of a Ukrainian victory by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

A victory in Ukraine is a victory for the free world

By Yuri Yarim-Agaev

Illustration on Russian kidnapping and prisoner exchange by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Unsanctioned prisoner exchanges: Putin created culture that condones his army’s unethical actions

By Mitzi Perdue

Oleg Navalny, the brother of Alexey Navalny pose for media inside a replica of a punishment cell in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2023. Supporters of jailed Alexey Navalny install a replica off the cell in which he has spend 91 days in 2022 opposite the Russian embassy in the German capital. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Navalny supporters put replica cell outside Russian embassy

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Russian President Vladimir Putin attends events marking the 80th anniversary of the break of Nazi's siege of Leningrad, (now St. Petersburg) during World War Two at the Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery, where hundreds of thousands of siege victims are buried, in St. Petersburg, Russia, Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2023. The Red Army broke the nearly 900-day blockade of the city on Jan. 19, 1943, after fierce fighting. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Putin: Ukraine action aimed to end ‘war’ raging since 2014

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Ukrainian servicemen prepare to fire a 120 mm mortar towards Russian positions at the frontline near Bakhmut, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Battle rages in Ukraine town; Russia shakes up its military

By Andrew Meldrum - Associated Press

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, left, and Chief of the Russian General Staff Valery Gerasimov attend the meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin during his visit to the joint staff of troops involved in Russia's military operation in Ukraine, at an unknown location, Saturday, Dec. 17, 2022. The chief of the military's General Staff, Gen. Valery Gerasimov, was named the new chief of the Russian forces in Ukraine. (Gavriil Grigorov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

Top Russian military officer put in charge of Ukraine action

By Vladimir Isachenkov - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin leads a cabinet meeting via videoconference at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2023. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Putin replaces commander in Ukraine after only three months

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

The highest decoration of the Republika Srpska, Order of the Republika Srpska assigned to Russian President Vladimir Putin is seen during a ceremony in the Bosnian town of Banja Luka, 240 kms northwest of Sarajevo, Sunday, Jan. 8, 2023. The Bosnian Serb separatist leader has awarded Putin with the highest medal of honor for his "patriotic concern and love" for the Serb-controlled half of Bosnia. Dodik awarded Putin on the occasion of "the day of Republika Srpska" which has been proclaimed illegal by Bosnia's constitutional court. It marks the day when Bosnian Serbs proclaimed they are splitting from Bosnia in 1992 with the aim to separate the Serb-populated regions of the Balkan state and join them with Serbia. (AP Photo/Radivoje Pavicic)

Bosnian Serb separatists award Putin with medal of honor

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Russian President Vladimir Putin listens to Russian Minister of Science and Higher Education Valery Falkov during their meeting in Moscow, Russia. in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2023. (Aleksey Babushkin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Putin’s proposed cease-fire gets frosty reception in Kyiv, Washington

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Local residents carry the body of a 20-year-old man killed in Russian shelling in Kherson, Ukraine, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023. (AP Photo/LIBKOS)

Putin orders 36-hour cease-fire in Ukraine linked to Orthodox Christmas holiday

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

FILE - This Jan. 3, 2020 file photo, released by the Iraqi Prime Minister Press Office shows a burning vehicle at the Baghdad International Airport following a deadly airstrike in Baghdad, Iraq. On Thursday, Jan. 7, 2021, Iraq’s judiciary issued an arrest warrant for outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump in connection with the killing of an Iranian general and a powerful Iraqi militia leader last year. The warrant was issued by a judge in Baghdad’s investigative court tasked with probing the Washington-directed drone strike that killed Gen. Qassim Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the court’s media office said. (Iraqi Prime Minister Press Office via AP, File)

Escalation control: Lessons from the Soleimani strike

By Keith Kellogg

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping via videoconference at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Dec. 30, 2022. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

On New Year’s, Putin slams West for hypocrisy, aggression

By Jim Heintz - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, seen onscreen, via a video conference at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Dec. 30, 2022. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Putin, Xi hold talks as Russia fires another Ukraine barrage

By Felipe Dana - Associated Press

Russian recruits walk to take a train at a railway station in Prudboi, Volgograd region of Russia, Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022. Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered a partial mobilization of reservists to beef up his forces in Ukraine. With the Russian army retreating under the blows of Ukrainian forces armed with Western weapons, Putin raised the stakes by annexing four Ukrainian regions and declaring a partial mobilization of up to 300,000 reservists to buttress the crumbling frontline. (AP Photo, File)

Russian soldier beats own officer to death

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin takes part in the launch ceremony of the Titan-Polymer plant via videoconference in St. Petersburg, Russia, Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2022. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Putin bans Russian oil exports to Western nations that imposed price cap

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Ukrainian servicemen carry the coffin of their comrade during the funeral ceremony for Volodymyr Yezhov killed in a battlefield with Russian forces, at St. Volodymyr Cathedral in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2022. Yezhov was a game designer in the development of the game Cossacks 2. He was also one of the authors of the game S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky. Yezhov was also one of the most famous Ukrainian e-sportsmen — played StarCraft under the nickname Fresh. Since the Russian invasion, Volodymyr Yezhov went to the frontline and fought as part of the volunteer squadron. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Concessions refusals block any hope for Russia-Ukraine peace talks

By Ben Wolfgang and Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko on the sidelines of an informal meeting of the heads of ex-Soviet nations which are members of the Commonwealth of Independent States at the State Russian Museum, in St. Petersburg, Russia, Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2022. (Alexey Danichev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Putin ‘misleading’ in comments about Ukraine war negotiations

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

No negotiating with communists