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**FILE** Rep. Adam Schiff, California Democrat (Associated Press)

Rep. Schiff: Stronger sanctions needed on Russia

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

** FILE ** This Feb. 28, 2014, file-pool photo shows Russian President Vladimir Putin during his working meetings at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Russia. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti Presidential Press Service, Alexei Nikolsky, File-Pool)

Putin threatens to make Ukraine pay ahead for gas

By Laura Mills and Peter Leonard - Associated Press

Secretary of State John F. Kerry defends the Obama administration's response to Russia's moves on eastern Ukraine during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing. (Associated Press Photographs)

Amid growing unrest, GOP presses for arming Ukraine

By Guy Taylor and Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

President Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin (Associated Press) ** FILE **

LAMBRO: Putin’s Ukraine provocation, Obama’s inaction

By Donald Lambro

** FILE ** U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, listens as European Union High Representative Catherine Ashton speaks to the media at the start of a U.S.-EU Energy Dialogue meeting at the headquarters of the European Union in Brussels Wednesday, April 2, 2014. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, Pool)

John Kerry: Russia to face tougher new sanctions if meddling in Ukraine continues

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

Pro-Russian activist wears a hand-made mask behind a barricade in front of the regional administration building in Donetsk, Ukraine, Tuesday, April 8, 2014, as the makings of an improved self-appointed government began to take shape, with demonstrators dug in for their third day at the 11-storey regional headquarters. Ukrainian authorities on Tuesday reasserted control over an administration building in the country’s second-largest city of Kharkiv, 250 Km ( 155 miles) north of Donetsk, which had been seized by pro-Russian protesters, and authorities detained some dozens. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Report: 60 people taken hostage in eastern Ukraine

By PETER LEONARD - Associated Press

People gathered near of a barricade with razor wires at the regional administration building in Donetsk, Ukraine, Monday, April 7, 2014. Outside the Donetsk building, a barricade of car tires and razor wire was built up to thwart police from retaking it. Interfax cited police in Donetsk as saying one armed group fired into the air and attempted to seize the regional state television broadcaster Monday but retreated after police and guards in the building also fired warning shots into the air. (AP Photo/Andrey Basevych)

Ukraine’s interior minister: Pro-Russia protesters driven out of Kharkiv

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Pro-Russian activists set their flags over the entrance to the regional administration building in Donetsk, Ukraine, Tuesday, April 8, 2014. In the city protesters dug in for their third day at the 11-story regional administration headquarters they captured on Sunday and began to declare their own parallel government. Ukrainian authorities on Tuesday reasserted control over an administration building in the country&#8217;s second-largest city of Kharkiv, 250 Km ( 155 miles) north of Donetsk, which had been seized by pro-Russian protesters, and authorities detained some dozens. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

LYONS: Russian bear eats Obama’s lunch on Ukraine

By James A. Lyons

Activists prepare a barricade in front of the regional administration building in Donetsk, Ukraine, Tuesday, April 8, 2014. Ukrainian authorities on Tuesday reasserted control over an administration building in Kharkiv, the country’s second-largest city, which had been seized by pro-Russian protesters, detaining dozens. Meanwhile, in Donetsk, a city 250 kilometers (155 miles) further south, the makings of an improved self-appointed government began taking shape as demonstrators dug in for their third day at the 11-story regional administration headquarters. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

60 people taken hostage in Ukraine’s east

By Peter Leonard - Associated Press

People gathered near of a barricade with razor wires at the regional administration building in Donetsk, Ukraine, Monday, April 7, 2014. Outside the Donetsk building, a barricade of car tires and razor wire was built up to thwart police from retaking it. Interfax cited police in Donetsk as saying one armed group fired into the air and attempted to seize the regional state television broadcaster Monday but retreated after police and guards in the building also fired warning shots into the air. (AP Photo/Andrey Basevych)

Kerry to meet with top diplomats on Ukraine

By JOSH LEDERMAN and LARA JAKES - Associated Press

Activists prepare a barricade inside the regional administration building in Donetsk, Ukraine, Monday, April 7, 2014. A Ukrainian news agency is reporting that pro-Russian separatists who have seized the regional administration building in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk proclaimed the region an independent republic. (AP Photo/Alexander Ermochenko)

White House warns Russia against ‘overtly or covertly’ seizing more Ukrainian territory

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

OLIVER: After Ukraine, what should U.S. strategy be in Europe?

By Daniel Oliver

People gather near a barricade built up to thwart police from retaking the regional administration building in Donetsk, Ukraine, late Monday. (Associated Press)

Republicans hit administration for timid response to Russian war gaming

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

Pro-Russian activists with Russian national flags storm the Ukrainian regional office of the Security Service in Luhansk, Ukraine, Sunday, April 6, 2014. In Luhansk, 30 kilometers (20 miles) west of the Russian border, hundreds of people surrounded the local headquarters of the security service and later scaled the facade to plant a Russian flag on the roof. (AP Photo/Igor Golovniov)

Pro-Russians call east Ukraine region independent

By PETER LEONARD - Associated Press

In this photo taken on Saturday, April 5, 2014, Oleh Lyashko, center left, leader of Ukrainian Radical Party and presidential candidate who supported the protests that ousted Russian-leaning president Viktor Yanukovych, poses with Ukrainian soldiers and officers at their camp near Ukraine-Russian border outside Chernihiv, 140km (87 miles) northeast of Kiev, Ukraine. Ukraine's security service said Saturday it has detained a 15-strong armed gang planning to seize power in an eastern province on the border with Russia. (AP Photo/Osman Karimov)

Pro-Russians storm Ukraine government buildings

By PETER LEONARD - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 1, 2014, file photo, Rep. Cory Gardner, R-Colo., officially announces his candidacy for the U.S. Senate at Denver Lumber Company in Denver. Gardner will run against Democratic Sen. Mark Udall. The Senate race in Colorado has shot toward the top of the nation&#8217;s most competitive contests this midterm election year, giving the Democratic incumbent a tougher battle than he expected and Republicans a new pickup opportunity in their drive to win the chamber&#8217;s majority. Udall responded to Gardner&#8217;s surprise challenge by quickly trying to define his opponent as an extremist. (AP Photo/Chris Schneider, File)

House Republicans to push gas exports

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel speaks to members of a travel press pool, Friday, April 4, 2014, in flight, while en route to Tokyo, from Honolulu. Hagel is traveling to Japan, China and Mongolia. (AP Photo/Alex Wong, Pool)

Hagel: US strongly committed to protecting Japan

By LOLITA C. BALDOR - Associated Press

** FILE ** Ronald McDonald. (Associated Press)

Ronald McDonald splits after Russians move in; hamburger chain closes in Crimea

By Phillip Swarts - The Washington Times

Ukrainian soldier reinforce a check point in the village of Strilkove, Ukraine, Monday, March 17, 2014. Ukraine's parliament on Monday voted for a partial military mobilization in response to Russia's invasion onto the Ukrainian territory. (AP Photo/Petro Zadorozhnyy)

Ukraine foils coup attempt; 300 machine guns, antitank grenade launcher seized

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UK asks EU to prepare more sanctions options

By ELENA BECATOROS and NATALIYA VASILEVA - Associated Press