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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

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

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

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

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

By Phillip Swarts - 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

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov attends a news conference after meeting with Foreign Ministers of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) in Moscow, Russia, Friday, April 4, 2014. Russia had no connection to the snipers in Ukraine and could not have any relation, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Friday in Moscow after the meeting with Foreign Ministers of the CIS. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)

Russian, Ukrainian soccer clubs cancel game

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A spiraling torque from the second century A.D., is displayed as part of the exhibit called The Crimea - Gold and Secrets of the Black Sea, at Allard Pierson historical museum in Amsterdam Friday April 4, 2014. The museum has gotten more than the bronze swords, golden helmets and precious gems it bargained for as it is unsure where to return the collection after Russia annexed Crimea. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Dutch doubt where to return Crimean gold

By TOBY STERLING - Associated Press

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov attends a news conference after meeting with Foreign Ministers of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) in Moscow, Russia, Friday, April 4, 2014. Russia had no connection to the snipers in Ukraine and could not have any relation, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Friday in Moscow after the meeting with Foreign Ministers of the CIS. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)

Russian, Ukrainian clubs cancel football friendly

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In this photo taken Tuesday, April 1, 2014, Viktor Levchenko, 36, a patient of treatment for drug addiction, poses at a bus stop with an advert reading &quot;Rehabilitation of drug and alcohol addicts&quot; in Sevastopol, Crimea. Across the Black Sea peninsula, some 800 heroin addicts and other needle-drug users take part in methadone programs, seen as an important part of efforts to curb HIV infections by taking the patients away from hypodermic needles that can spread the AIDS-causing virus. After Russia's annexation of Crimea methadone was banned. The ban could undermine years of efforts to reduce the spread of AIDS in Crimea. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

Crimea side-effect: Addicts deprived of methadone

By LAURA MILLS - Associated Press

UK asks EU to prepare more sanctions options

By ELENA BECATOROS and NATALIYA VASILEVA - 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

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

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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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

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

Chicago, Moscow sister-relationship continues

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** 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

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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SOWELL: Peering behind Obama’s foreign-policy curtain

By Thomas Sowell