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In this March 10, 2011, file photo, then-Vice President of the United States Joe Biden, left, shakes hands with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in Moscow, Russia. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

Vladimir Putin, Russia test Biden with ‘hybrid warfare’ operations in Ukraine, Arctic

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Sept. 25, 2019, file photo, President Donald Trump meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy at the InterContinental Barclay New York hotel during the United Nations General Assembly in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Volodymyr Zelenskiy offers to play host to Joe Biden

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

FILE - In this file photo dated Tuesday, March 31, 2020, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy wears a face mask to protect against coronavirus during an extraordinary parliamentary session in Kyiv, Ukraine. It is announced Monday Nov. 9, 2020, that Volodymyr Zelenskiy has tested positive for the COVID-19 coronavirus. (AP Photo, FILE)

Ukraine’s president tests positive for COVID-19

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In this photo taken on Saturday, May 9, 2020, Dr. Olha Kobevko speaks to a patient suspected of having coronavirus at the regional hospital in Chernivtsi, Ukraine. The hospital lacks a centralized oxygen supply and has to rely mostly on refillable oxygen masks, reflecting a pitiful state of Ukraine's underfunded health care system that was quickly overwhelmed by the coronavirus even with a relatively low number of infections. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Ukraine’s overburdened doctors in desperate virus fight

By Mstyslav Chernov and Yuras Karmanau - Associated Press

FILE - In this Wednesday, May 29, 2019 file photo, Georgia's ex-President Mikheil Saakashvili, greets his supporters upon his arrival at Boryspil Airport, outside Kyiv, Ukraine. Wednesday, May 29, 2019. Saakashvili said he has accepted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's offer to become a deputy prime minister in charge of reforms, a move that has angered his home country. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, FILE)

Georgia recalls its ambassador in Ukraine over ex-president

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FILE - In this Wednesday, May 29, 2019 file photo, Georgia's ex-President Mikheil Saakashvili, greets his supporters upon his arrival at Boryspil Airport, outside Kyiv, Ukraine. Wednesday, May 29, 2019. Saakashvili said he has accepted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's offer to become a deputy prime minister in charge of reforms, a move that has angered his home country. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, FILE)

Ex-president of Georgia given official job in Ukraine

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Ex-president of Georgia accepts top Cabinet job in Ukraine

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy gestures as he addresses the Ukrainian parliament in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, March, 4, 2020. Ukraine's parliament has endorsed the resignation of Prime Minister Oleksiy Honcharuk. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Ukraine prime minister ousted, president seeks ‘new brains’

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Ukraine’s prime minister submits resignation, lawmakers say

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Ukrainian Prime Minister Oleksiy Honcharuk, center, Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov, left, and Zoryana Skaletska healthcare minister attend a briefing in Novi Sarzhany, Ukraine, Thursday, Feb. 20, 2020. Several hundred residents in Ukraine's Poltava region protested to stop officials from quarantining the evacuees in their village because they feared becoming infected. Demonstrators put up road blocks and burned tires, while Ukrainian media reported that there were clashes with police, and more than 10 people were detained. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Oleksiy Honcharuk, Ukraine prime minister, submits resignation, lawmakers say

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, left, greets U.S. Senators Ron Johnson Chris, second left, Chris Murphy and John Barrasso during their visit in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, Feb. 14, 2020. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)

Ukraine’s president vows to end war, invites Trump to Kyiv

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People gather for a candlelight vigil to remember the victims of the Ukraine plane crash, at the gate of Amri Kabir University that some of the victims of the crash were former students of, in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, Jan. 11, 2020. Iran on Saturday, Jan. 11, acknowledged that its armed forces &quot;unintentionally&quot; shot down the Ukrainian jetliner that crashed earlier this week, killing all 176 aboard, after the government had repeatedly denied Western accusations that it was responsible. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

The Latest: Trump expresses support for ‘brave’ Iranians

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Activists attend a rally in central Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, Dec. 8, 2019. Several thousand people rallied Sunday in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv to demand that the president defend the country's interests in this week's summit with Russia, Germany and France on ending the war in eastern Ukraine. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Russia, Ukraine to revive peace process amid little progress

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV and SYLVIE CORBET and YURAS KARMANAU - Associated Press

FILE In this file photo taken on Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy speaks during talks with journalists in Kyiv, Ukraine. Ukraine's president sits down Monday, Dec. 9, 2019 for peace talks in Paris with Russian President Vladimir Putin in their first face-to-face meeting, and the stakes could not be higher. More than five years of fighting in eastern Ukraine between government troops and Moscow-backed separatists has killed more than 14,000 people, and a cease-fire has remained elusive. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)

Ukraine faces new challenges in peace talks with Russia

By VANESSA GERA - Associated Press

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy speaks during a news conference following his meeting with Lithuania's President Gitanas Nauseda at the Presidential Palace in Vilnius, Lithuania, Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2019. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)

Zelenskiy: Allies ‘can’t go blocking’ aid at time of war

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, foreground left, and his wife Olena Zelenska hold candles as they walk to a memorial in Independent Square (Maidan) in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, Nov. 21, 2019. The memorial is dedicated to people who died in clashes with security forces in 2013 during protests sparked by then President Viktor Yanukovych’s decision in November 2013 to freeze ties with the West and tilt toward Moscow. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)

Ukraine focuses on uprooting corruption amid US scrutiny

By YURAS KARMANAU - Associated Press

Gordon Sondland, U.S. ambassador to the European Union, center, appears before the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2019, during a public impeachment hearing of President Donald Trump's efforts to tie U.S. aid for Ukraine to investigations of his political opponents. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Quid pro quo, domestic errands: Takeaways from impeachment

By ERIC TUCKER - Associated Press

In this photo taken on Monday, Nov. 18, 2019, a Ukrainian soldier in a trench in the front line near the town of Avdiivka in the Donetsk region, Ukraine. U.S.-made X-ray equipment, helmets and missiles make a difference for Ukrainian troops fighting Kremlin-backed separatists on the front line of the 21st century standoff between Russia and the West. So when President Donald Trump froze $400 million in U.S. military aid to Ukraine, allegedly to pressure the country’s leader for personal political favors, Ukrainians got nervous. (AP Photo/Vitali Komar)

In Ukraine’s bleak east, US aid saves lives, raises morale

By INNA VARENYTSIA - Associated Press

U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland pauses as he gives his opening statement as he testifies before the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2019, during a public impeachment hearing of President Donald Trump's efforts to tie U.S. aid for Ukraine to investigations of his political opponents. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Impeachment hearings takeaways: `Everyone was in the loop’

By ERIC TUCKER AND AAMER MADHANI - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 15, 2019, file photo, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani smiles as he arrives to President Donald Trump's campaign rally in Manchester, N.H. Federal prosecutors are planning to interview an executive with Ukraine’s state-owned gas company as part of an ongoing probe into the business dealings of Giuliani and two of his Soviet-born business associates. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)

Burisma means Biden? Diplomats say the link escaped them

By COLLEEN LONG - Associated Press