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In this Feb. 28, 2014, photo, President Barack Obama speaks about the ongoing situation in Ukraine in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. Analysts and former Obama administration officials say Russia is unlikely to pull back its forces in Ukraine&#8217;s Crimea peninsula, forcing the United States and Europe into a more limited strategy of trying to prevent President Vladimir Putin from making advances elsewhere in the former Soviet republic. It&#8217;s an unsettling scenario for Obama, who is under pressure to show he has leverage over Putin in a deepening conflict between East and West. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

HOLMES: The world as it is

By Kim R. Holmes

The world as it is

The Washington Times

In this frame grab provided by the Russian Television via the APTN, President Vladimir Putin, during a live feed, answers journalists' questions on the current situation around Ukraine at the Novo-Ogaryovo presidential residence outside Moscow, on Tuesday, March 4, 2014. (AP Photo/Russian Television via APTN)

Defiant Putin drops cool demeanor in Ukraine talk

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV - Associated Press

Illustration by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

MAY: Obama’s new world disorder

By Clifford D. May

Kansas woman trying to help kids in Ukraine

Associated Press

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry departs Andrews Air Force Base, Md., en route to Ukraine, Monday, March 3, 2014. In remarks Monday, U.S. President Barack Obama said Kerry will propose ways in which a negotiation between Russia and Ukraine could be overseen by a multilateral organization when he goes to Kiev on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Kevin Lamarque, Pool)

Kerry heads to Ukraine as West ponders sanctions

By LARA JAKES - Associated Press

U.S. Lawmakers see exports of natural gas as a way to help Ukraine

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Juergen Klinsmann, coach of the US American national soccer team, leads a training session of his team in Frankfurt Germany, Monday March 3, 2014. The USA will face Ukraine on Cyprus on Wednesday. (AP Photo/dpa,Boris Roessler)

Ukrainian team united despite turmoil at home

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS - Associated Press

Illustration by Kevin Kreneck/Tribune Content Agency

LAMBRO: Aggressive Putin, feckless Obama

By Donald Lambro

Associated Press
Secretary of State John F. Kerry remembers Ukrainian protesters at the Shrine of the Fallen in Kiev. Over the course of the Maidan demonstrations, almost 100 were killed by police.

Obama tells Putin stop ‘meddling’ in Ukraine and withdraw troops from Crimea

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Juergen Klinsmann, coach of the US American national soccer team, leads a training session of his team in Frankfurt Germany, Monday March 3, 2014. The US team will face Ukraine on Cyprus on Wednesday. (AP Photo/dpa,Boris Roessler)

Ukraine soccer team praises U.S. support ahead of Wednesday match

By Menelaos Hadjicostis - Associated Press

Florida editorial roundup

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Ukrainian officers march at the Belbek air base, outside Sevastopol, Ukraine, on Tuesday, March 4, 2014. Russian troops, who had taken control over Belbek airbase, fired warning shots in the air as around 300 Ukrainian officers marched towards them to demand their jobs back. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)

Ukrainians soldiers caught in the middle in Crimea

By RAUL GALLEGO - Associated Press

Col. Yuri Mamchur, commander of the Ukrainian garrison at the Belbek air base, lead his men to the base outside Sevastopol, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 4, 2014. Russian troops, who had taken control over Belbek airbase, fired warning shots in the air as around 300 Ukrainian officers marched towards them to demand their jobs back. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)

OSCE sending military observer mission to Ukraine

By George Jahn - Associated Press

Toomey slaps Obama’s Ukraine reaction as ‘tepid’

Associated Press

Rep. Fred Upton, Michigan Republican (Associated Press)

Ukraine deeply vulnerable to Russian energy threats — report

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Ukrainian navy corvette Ternopil is anchored at Ukrainian navy base in Sevastopol, Ukraine, early Tuesday, March 4, 2014. Russian troops said to be 16,000 strong tightened their stranglehold on Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula Monday, openly defying the U.S. and the European Union and rattling world capitals and stock markets. (AP Photo/Andrew Lubimov)

Putin talks tough but cools tensions over Ukraine

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV and TIM SULLIVAN - Associated Press

Russian soldiers fire warning shots at the Belbek air base, outside Sevastopol, Ukraine, on Tuesday, March 4, 2014. Russian troops, who had taken control over Belbek airbase, fired warning shots in the air as around 300 Ukrainian officers marched towards them to demand their jobs back. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)

Shots fired in Crimea as Kerry lands in Ukraine

Associated Press

Ukrainian seamen stand guard on the Ukrainian navy ship Slavutich at harbor of Sevastopol, Ukraine, Monday, March 3, 2014. The Ukrainian Defense Ministry said that Russian forces that have overtaken Ukraine's strategic region of Crimea are demanding that the ship's crew surrender. (AP Photo/Andrew Lubimov)

Ukraine: Russia demands that 2 warships surrender

By Dalton Bennett and David McHugh - Associated Press

A Ukrainian armored personnel carrier is stationed behind the gate of a military base in the port of Kerch, Ukraine, Monday, March 3, 2014. Pro-Russian troops controlled a ferry terminal on the easternmost tip of Ukraine's Crimea region close to Russia on Monday, intensifying fears that Moscow will send even more troops into the strategic Black Sea region in its tense dispute with its Slavic neighbor. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

Ukraine mobilizes: ‘This is a red alert’ of war

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times