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A man looks at the posters during the International poster campaign to support Ukraine in center Kiev, Ukraine, Wednesday, March, 12, 2014. U.S. President Barack Obama is hosting the new Ukrainian prime minister at the White House on Wednesday a gesture aimed at rebuking Russia and cementing the West's allegiance to Ukraine's fledgling government. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Ukraine accuses Russia of military buildup

By MARIA DANILOVA - Associated Press

In this photo taken Saturday, March 8, 2014, Russian President Vladimir Putin watches downhill ski competition of the 2014 Winter Paralympics in Roza Khutor mountain district of Sochi, Russia. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky, Presidential Press Service)

Ukrainian PM accuses Putin of wanting war

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

President Obama confers by phone from the Oval Office with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, about the situation in Ukraine recently. Ukraine's prime minister is due Wednesday in Washington. (White House)

White House touts leadership in handling of crisis in Ukraine, despite lack of results

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Illustration by Paul Tong/Tribune Content Agency

LOZANSKY: World War III over Ukraine, anyone?

By Edward Lozansky

In this picture publicly provided by the Charite hospital in Berlin, former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko , center, poses with her doctors Professor Karl Max Einhaeupl , left, CEO of the Charite Hospital and doctors from left : Dr. Anett Reisshauer , Professor Nobert Haas, Professor Matthias Endres, and Professor Peter Vajkoczy in the Charite Hospital in Berlin, Germany, on Saturday March 8, 2014. Ukraine's former prime minister, Yulia Tymoshenko, has started medical treatment at Berlin's Charite hospital after arriving late Friday, but doctors treating her say it's too soon to say how long this will take. (AP Photo/ho/Charite Universitaetsmedizin Berlin) MANDATORY CREDIT

Ukraine ex-leader Tymoshenko’s back pain improving

Associated Press

Crimean Tatars shout slogans during the pro-Ukraine rally in Simferopol, Crimea, Ukraine, Monday, March 10, 2014. Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday defended the separatist drive in the disputed Crimean Peninsula as in keeping with international law, but Ukraine's prime minister vowed not to relinquish "a single centimeter" of his country's territory. The local parliament in Crimea has scheduled a referendum for next Sunday. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

88 percent of Americans agree: No U.S. ground troops to Ukraine

By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Obama delivering on ‘flexibility’ vow to Moscow

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., speaks at the Conservative Political Action Committee annual conference in National Harbor, Md., Friday, March 7, 2014. Friday marks the second day of the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, which brings together prospective presidential candidates, conservative opinion leaders and tea party activists from coast to coast. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

DEACE: Rand Paul introducing new paradigm on foreign policy views

By Steve Deace

** FILE ** President Barack participates in a bilateral meeting with President Vladimir Putin of Russia at the Esperanza Resort in San Jose Del Cabo, Mexico, June 18, 2012. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

Reset? What reset? U.S.-Russia ties at worst since Cold War

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

CIA Director John O. Brennan speaks at the Council on Foreign Relations, Tuesday, March 11, 2014, in Washington. The head of the Senate Intelligence Committee said Tuesday the CIA improperly searched a stand-alone computer network established for Congress in its investigation of allegations of CIA abuse in a Bush-era detention and interrogation program and the agency's own inspector general has referred the matter to the Justice Department for possible legal action. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Brennan: Russia ‘absolutely’ could invade eastern Ukraine

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

A woman holds a banner that reads: &quot;Putin is Occupier&quot; during a rally against the breakup of the country in Simferopol, Crimea, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 11, 2014. The Crimean parliament voted Tuesday that the Black Sea peninsula will declare itself an independent state if its residents agree to split off from Ukraine and join Russia in a referendum. Crimea's regional legislature on Tuesday adopted a &quot;declaration of independence of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.&quot; The document specified that Crimea will become an independent state if its residents vote on Sunday in favor of joining Russia in the referendum. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

Crimea’s parliament pushes for independence

By MIKE ECKEL - Associated Press

** FILE ** Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., questions Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 5, 2014, during the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing focusing on the Defense Department’s budget request for fiscal year 2015. The committee's ranking member Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla. is at left. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

McCain: Putin will not leave Crimea

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Sept. 2010 photo released on Saturday, Oct. 30, 2010, then Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin carries a hunting rifle during his trip in Ubsunur Hollow in the Siberian Tyva region (also referred to as Tuva), on the border with Mongolia, Russia. Vladimir Putin turns 60-years old on Sunday, Oct. 7, 2012, and has recently sought to demonstrate his youthful vigor by many personal endeavors, but while he has shown creativity in his action-man stunts, the Russian president seems surprisingly vulnerable to the vagaries of oil prices. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Dmitry Astakhov, Government Press Service, file)

ISTOOK: Meet Vladimir Putin’s best friend — America’s energy red-tape

By Ernest Istook

Pro-Russian soldiers stand outside an Ukrainian air defense military base outside Yevpatoria, Ukraine, Sunday, March 9, 2014. As separatists in Crimea kept up pressure for unification with Moscow, Ukraine on Sunday solemnly commemorated the 200th anniversary of the birth of its greatest poet, with the prime minister vowing not to give up &#8220;a single centimeter&#8221; of Ukrainian territory.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Americans don’t support sending U.S. troops to Ukraine

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

A convoy of military vehicles bearing no license plates travels on the road from Sevastopol to Simferopol, Crimea, Ukraine, Monday, March 10, 2014. Ukraine's foreign minister said Monday his country already feels like it's almost in a state of war after Russian forces took effective control of Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

CARNES: Kissinger’s flawed and offensive analysis of Ukraine

By Ben Carnes

White House press secretary Jay Carney answers questions during his daily news briefing at the White House in Monday, March 10, 2014. Carney spoke about the ongoing situation in the Ukraine and this week's visit of Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk to the White House. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

White House: Exporting natural gas to Europe, Ukraine not the answer

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Topeka family finally makes it home from Ukraine

Associated Press

Ukraine's Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk speaks during a media conference at NATO headquarters in Brussels on Thursday, March 6, 2014. Yatsenyuk is in Brussels to meet with EU heads of state and NATO officials to discuss the current situation in Ukraine. (AP Photo/Eric Vidal)

Ukrainian Prime Minister Yatsenyuk to meet with Obama at White House

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama return to Washington after spending the weekend in Florida. (Associated Press)

As Crimea falls, Obama takes Key Largo golf vacation, Biden hits Virgin Islands

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

FILE - In this June 15, 2011, file photo, then-Secretary of Defense Robert Gates testifies regarding the Department of Defense Fiscal Year 2012 budget request before the Senate Appropriations Committee Subcommittee on Defense on Capitol Hill in Washington. Gates asserts in a new memoir that President Barack Obama grew frustrated with U.S. policy in Afghanistan and that Vice President Joe Biden has been wrong on nearly every foreign policy and national security issue. He also accuses members of Congress of inquisition-like treatment of administration officials. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

Gates: Obama strategy won’t stop Putin

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times