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A Ukrainian soldier takes a selfie as an artillery system fires in the front line in Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, Sept. 3, 2022. As the war slogs on, a growing flow of Western weapons over the summer is now playing a key role in the counteroffensive, helping Ukraine significantly boost its precision strike capability. (AP Photo/Kostiantyn Liberov) **FILE**

White House pledges more support for Ukraine’s ‘success on the battlefield’

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

FILE - Russian opposition activist and a municipal deputy of the Krasnoselsky district Ilya Yashin stands in a cage at a court room during a hearing on his detention the Basmanny district court in Moscow, July 13, 2022. Yashin, 39, is one of the few prominent opposition figures that refused to leave Russia despite the unprecedented pressure the authorities have mounted on dissent in recent years. A sharp critic of the Kremlin, a vocal ally of imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny and an uncompromising member of a Moscow municipal council, Yashin was arrested in June. (AP Photo/Dmitry Serebryakov, File)

Jailed Kremlin critic: Government has ‘failed to shut me up’

By Dasha Litvinova - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin applauds during a plenary session at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, Russia, Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2022. (Sergei Bobylev/TASS News Agency Host Pool Photo via AP)

Putin mocks West, says Russia will press on in Ukraine

By Vladimir Isachenkov - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a plenary session at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, Russia, Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2022. (Vladimir Smirnov/TASS News Agency Host Pool Photo via AP)

Putin, Xi to meet in Uzbekistan next week, official says

Associated Press

Indonesian Environment and Forestry Minister Siti Nurbaya Bakar delivers her remarks as ministers and delegates listen during the opening session of the G20 Environment and Climate Ministerial Meeting in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022. (Made Nagi/Pool Photo via AP)

Russia is unfit for the G-20

By Anthony Kim

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, gestures while speaking to Chairman of National People's Congress Li Zhanshu during their talks on the sideline of the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, Russia, Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2022. (Egor Aleyev/TASS News Agency Host Pool Photo via AP)

China-Russia war games underway near Japan

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin watches the Vostok 2022 (East 2022) military exercise in far eastern Russia, outside Vladivostok, on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022. The weeklong exercise that began Thursday is intended to showcase growing defense ties between Russia and China and also demonstrate that Moscow has enough troops and equipment to conduct the massive drills even as its troops are engaged in military action in Ukraine. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Putin attends joint military drills with China, others

By Vladimir Isachenkov - Associated Press

FILE - Russian soldiers patrol a destroyed part of the Illich Iron &amp; Steel Works Metallurgical Plant in Mariupol, in territory under the government of the Donetsk People's Republic, eastern Ukraine, Wednesday, May 18, 2022. Despite getting bogged down in Ukraine, the Kremlin has resisted announcing a full-blown mobilization, a move that could prove to be very unpopular for President Vladimir Putin. That has led instead to a covert recruitment effort that includes trying to get prisoners to make up for the manpower shortage. This photo was taken during a trip organized by the Russian Ministry of Defense. (AP Photo, File)

Morale and discipline problems with Russian troops in Ukraine, analysts say

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

In this image taken from video provided by the Russian pool television on Thursday, Sept. 1, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin pays his last respect near the coffin of former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev at the Central Clinical Hospital in Moscow Russia. (Russian pool via AP)

Gorbachev to be buried in low-key funeral snubbed by Putin

By Jim Heintz and Vladimir Isachenkov - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev arrives at the German-Russian Petersburg Dialogue conference in Dresden on Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2006. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

Putin pays tribute to Gorbachev but won’t attend his funeral

By Vladimir Isachenkov - Associated Press

Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Mariano Grossi, right, walks in Kyiv, Ukraine, early Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022. The U.N. nuclear watchdog team set off on an urgent mission to safeguard the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia atomic power plant at the heart of fighting in Ukraine, a long-awaited trip the world hopes will help avoid a radioactive catastrophe. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

U.N. nuclear agency team arrives at Ukraine power plant

By Derek Gatopoulos - Associated Press

A volunteer soldier holds up a drone used to release explosives at a training area outside Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, Aug. 27, 2022. Some volunteers signed up to join a Chechen unit that fights alongside the Ukrainian military. Fighters from Chechnya, the Russian republic in the North Caucasus, are participating on both sides of the conflict in Ukraine, with pro-Kyiv volunteers loyal to Dzhokhar Dudayev, the late Chechen leader who headed the republic's drive for independence from Russia. (AP Photo/Andrew Kravchenko)

Rival Chechen fighters take war to battlefields of Ukraine

By Derek Gatopoulos and Andrew Kravchenko - Associated Press

Russian army soldiers march during an event in support of the soldiers involved in the military operation in Ukraine, at the Mamaev Kurgan, a World War II memorial in Volgograd, Russia, July 11, 2022. Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday, Aug. 25 ordered the Russian military to increase the size of the country's armed forces by 137,000 amid Moscow’s military action in Ukraine. (AP Photo/Alexandr Kulikov, File)

Putin orders an increase in Russia’s military as invasion of Ukraine bogs down

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

In this handout photo taken from video released by Investigative Committee of Russia on Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022, investigators work on the site of explosion of a car driven by Daria Dugina outside Moscow. Daria Dugina, the daughter of Alexander Dugin, the Russian nationalist ideologist often called &quot;Putin's brain&quot;, was killed when her car exploded on the outskirts of Moscow, officials said Sunday. The Investigate Committee branch for the Moscow region said the Saturday night blast was caused by a bomb planted in the SUV driven by Daria Dugina.(Investigative Committee of Russia via AP)

Russia hawks blame Ukraine for car bomb that killed Putin adviser’s daughter

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

FILE - Then Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin rides a horse while traveling in the mountains of the Siberian Tyva region (also referred to as Tuva), Russia, Aug. 3, 2009. Putin has shot back at Western leaders who mocked his athletic exploits, saying they would look þÄúdisgustingþÄù if they tried to emulate his bare-torso appearances. Putin made the comment during a visit to Turkmenistan early Thursday, June 30, 2022 when asked about Western leaders joking about him at the G-7 summit. (Alexei Druzhinin/Pool Photo via AP, file)

Russia’s good old days are gone

By R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.

Natali Sevriukova reacts next to her house following a rocket attack the city of Kyiv, Ukraine, on Feb. 25, 2022. By ending 77 years of almost uninterrupted peace in Europe, war in Ukraine war has joined the dawn of the nuclear age and the birth of manned spaceflight as a watershed in history. After nearly a half-year of fighting, tens of thousands of dead and wounded on both sides, massive disruptions to supplies of energy, food and financial stability, the world is no longer as it was.(AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Analysis: A world changed, maybe permanently, by Ukraine war

By John Leicester - Associated Press

Illustration on climate change policy by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Climate change is not a national security emergency

By Clifford D. May

In this Monday, March 9, 2020, file photo released by the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), a Russian Tu-142 maritime reconnaissance aircraft, top right, is intercepted near the Alaska coastline. A similar incursion by two Russian maritime patrol aircraft tested the U.S. and Canadian air defense zone in early July 2022, in a show of force in the midst of Moscow's military operation in Ukraine and nuclear saber-rattling, the commander of the Northern Command said on July 22. The U.S.-Canadian air defense command is playing down two recent Russian military encounters near Alaska as non-threatening — despite one intrusion that included nuclear-capable bombers. The North American Aerospace Defense command delayed releasing details on the two separate incidents for two days, even though multiple U.S. fighter jets and support aircraft were used to intercept and escort the Tu-95 bombers and Su-35 jets off the Alaskan coast on May 11. (North American Aerospace Defense Command via AP, File)

Russia tests U.S. air defenses in midst of Ukraine war

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, speaks to Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi, back to a camera, on the sideline of the summit of Caspian Sea littoral states in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, on June 29, 2022. Putin's visit to Iran starting Tuesday, July 19, is intended to deepen ties with regional heavyweights as part of Moscow's challenge to the United States and Europe amid its grinding campaign in Ukraine. (Grigory Sysoyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

Putin in Tehran for talks with leaders of Iran, Turkey

By Nasser Karimi and Vladimir Isachenkov - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Russian Industry and Trade Minister Denis Manturov arrive to attend the opening of the MAKS-2021 International Aviation and Space Salon in Zhukovsky outside Zhukovsky, Russia, Tuesday, July 20, 2021. Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday replaced Russian Roscosmos head Dmitry Rogozin with Yuri Borisov, a deputy prime minister who was in charge of weapons industries. Borisov's duties were handed over to Denis Manturov, the minister of industry and trade who was also given the rank of a deputy prime minister. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, Pool, File)

Putin reshuffles top officials, names new space agency head

By Vladimir Isachenkov - Associated Press