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FILE - In this file photo taken on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014, Olesya Zhukovska, left, is helped after being shot in her neck by a sniper bullet, in Independence Square, the epicenter of the country's current unrest, Kiev, Ukraine. &quot;I am dying&quot;, Olesya Zhukovska, a 21-year-old volunteer medic, wrote on Twitter, minutes after she got shot in the neck by a sniper's bullet as deadly clashes broke out in the center of the Ukrainian capital between protesters and police. The tweet, accompanied by a photo of her clutching her bleeding neck and being led away under fire, went viral, as social media users around the world presumed she had died and shared their grief and anger. Authorities in Ukraine said on Thursday that they have detained several members of an elite riot police unit on suspicion of shooting protesters during bloody anti-government clashes in February that left more than 100 dead. (AP Photo/Alexander Sherbakov, File)

Ukraine: Yanukovych ordered snipers to shoot

By MARIA DANILOVA - Associated Press

U.S. Air Force Gen. Philip Breedlove, left, the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, speaks to colleagues during a meeting of the North Atlantic Council with Non-NATO ISAF Contributing Nations at NATO headquarters in Brussels on Wednesday, April 2, 2014. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

Ukrainian officers join NATO drills in Bulgaria

By VESELIN TOSHKOV - Associated Press

Chicago, Moscow sister-relationship continues

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President Barack Obama meets with NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen in Brussels, Belgium, Wednesday, March 26, 2014. Obama is on a one day trip to Belgium to shore up commitments he received from allies in The Hague, Netherlands, to reassure Eastern Europeans members of NATO that the alliance will stand by them and to make a larger point about European security a quarter-century after the fall of the Iron Curtain. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama signs law providing Ukraine $1B in loan guarantees

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From left, Northwest College students from Ukraine, Inna Kucherenko, Iurii Kyrychenko and Yarsolava Krypak pose for a photo at Northwest College in Powell, Wyo., on March 27, 2014. Events at home occupy the thoughts of three Northwest College students more than usual these days. For them, home is Ukraine, a place that, due to Russia's annexation of Crimea, has dominated world news in recent weeks. (AP Photo/The Powell Tribune, Ilene Olson)

Ukrainian students in Wyoming watch Crimean crisis

By ILENE OLSON - Associated Press

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, left, and French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, right, shake hands in the lobby of the foreign ministry in Paris, Monday, March 31, 2014. Lavrov is in Paris for talks about Ukraine. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

Russia demands that NATO explain military buildup in Eastern Europe

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

***FILE** U.S. European Commander and Supreme Allied Commander – Europe (SACEUR) Air Force Gen. Philip Breedlove (front), joined by KFOR Commander Maj. Gen. Volker Halbauer, speaks during a joint press conference in Kosovo capital Pristina military airport in Slatina on June 7, 2013. (Associated Press)

Russia prepped to invade Ukraine within 12 hours, NATO warns

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Ousted Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych reacts during an interview with The Associated Press, in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, on Wednesday, April 2, 2014. Yanukovych says the annexation of Crimea was a tragedy and he would have done everything possible to prevent it, had he remained in power. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)

Viktor Yanukovych admits he was ‘wrong’ to have invited Russian troops to Crimea

By Caro Kriel and Vladimir Isachenkov - Associated Press

Business Highlights

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President Barack Obama listens to a journalist's question during a joint press conference with Italian Premier Matteo Renzi at the end of their meeting at Rome's Villa Madama, Thursday, March 27, 2014. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Obama to meet with top lawmakers on Ukraine crisis

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FILE - In this Tuesday, March 25, 2014 file photo, U.S. astronaut Steven Swanson, left, and Russian cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov, crew members of the mission to the International Space Station, speak with relatives during pre-launch preparations at the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev is at center background. In an announcement Wednesday, April 2, 2014, NASA says it is suspending its work with Russia except for the International Space Station. The move comes a week after the space agency said U.S.-Russian space relations were fine despite Russia's annexation of the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine. NASA employees are barred from traveling to Russia until further notice. Workers also can't email or hold teleconferences with their Russian counterparts. (AP Photo/Maxim Shipenkov, Pool, File)

NASA cuts ties with Russia except on space station

By ALICIA CHANG - Associated Press

** 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)

Obama approval rating at 42 percent; Americans can’t decide if he’s stronger than Putin

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

The Rev. Jeremiah Wright

SOWELL: Peering behind Obama’s foreign-policy curtain

By Thomas Sowell

FILE - In this Jan. 31, 2009 file photo, Ukrainian business tycoon Dmytro Firtash speaks in his office in Kiev, Ukraine. Firtash, one of Ukraine's most influential oligarchs and a major player in the sale of Russian natural gas to Ukraine allegedly spearheaded an international conspiracy to pay at least $18 million in bribes to mine titanium in India and sell it to a Chicago-based company, according to an indictment unsealed Wednesday, April 2, 2014, by U.S. prosecutors in Chicago. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, file)

US details charges against Ukrainian oligarch

By MICHAEL TARM - Associated Press

Congress to pass aid Ukraine, sanction Russia

By DEB RIECHMANN - Associated Press

Russian officers gesticulate to the driver of Russian tank T-72B at the Ostryakovo railway station not far from Simferopol, Crimea, Monday, March 31, 2014. Russian tanks T-72B will be stationed on former Ukrainian military bases. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

Outgunned Ukraine strives for military overhaul

By PETER LEONARD - Associated Press

Illustration on China Taiwan economy by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

TKACIK: Taiwan struggles in China’s trade grip

By John J. Tkacik

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen gestures while speaking during a media conference ahead of a meeting of the North Atlantic Council at NATO headquarters in Brussels on Tuesday, April 1, 2014. NATO foreign ministers begin a two-day meeting on Tuesday in which they will discuss, among other issues, the situation in Ukraine. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

NATO allies pledge to beef up eastern defenses

By JOHN-THOR DAHLBURG and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV - Associated Press

Putin

HOLMES: Obama fails the Crimea Rorschach test

By Kim R. Holmes

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, shakes hands with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov before the start of their meeting at the Russian Ambassador's residence about the situation in Ukraine, in Paris Sunday March 30, 2014. Kerry traveled to Paris for a last minute meeting with Lavrov. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, Pool)

U.S., Russia offer differing solutions on Ukraine

By Matthew Lee - Associated Press