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In this photo provided by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attends a meeting of the Workers' Party of Korea in Pyongyang, North Korea Monday, June 27, 2022. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this image distributed by the North Korean government. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified. Korean language watermark on image as provided by source reads: &quot;KCNA&quot; which is the abbreviation for Korean Central News Agency. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)

An unlikely ally gives Putin’s Ukraine sovereignty grab a boost

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

In this handout photo released by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Saturday, July 23, 2022, Russian Army special forces soldiers are seen on a mission at an undisclosed location in Ukraine. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)

Hungarian diplomat pushes talks for swift end to Russia-Ukraine war

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

A farmer collects harvest on a field around a crater left by a Russian rocket 10 kilometers from the front line in the Dnipropetrovsk region, Ukraine, on July 4, 2022. Turkish officials say a deal on a U.N. plan to unblock the exports of Ukrainian grain amid the war and to allow Russia to export grain and fertilizers will be signed Friday, July 22, 2022, in Istanbul. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky) **FILE**

Ukraine, Russia sign U.N. deal to export grain on Black Sea

By Ayse Wieting and Suzan Fraser - Associated Press

National Security Council spokesman John Kirby speaks during a press briefing at the White House, Tuesday, July 19, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden administration to send $270 million in security aid to Ukraine

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan speaks at a press briefing at the White House in Washington, Monday, April 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) ** FILE **

Biden administration preps Taiwan for Chinese attack after Ukraine invasion

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

A woman looks at a trolleybus damaged by Russian shelling at Barabashovo market in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Thursday, July 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

School in east Ukraine hit by Russian strike; bodies found

By Susie Blann - Associated Press

Maksym and Andrii 11, years old boys, salute to Ukrainian soldiers holding plastic guns as they play at the self-made checkpoint on the highway in Kharkiv region, Ukraine, Wednesday, July 20, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Russia pounds major Ukrainian city after expanding war aims

By Mstyslav Chernov - Associated Press

A launch truck fires the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) produced by Lockheed Martin during combat training in the high desert of the Yakima Training Center, Washington in May 23, 2011. The HIMARS systems supplied by the U.S. and similar M270 provided by Britain have significantly bolstered the Ukrainian army's precision strike capability. The deliveries of Western arms have been crucial for Ukraine’s efforts to fend off Russian attacks in the nearly 5-month-old war. (Tony Overman/The Olympian via AP, File)

HIMARS and howitzers: West helps Ukraine with key weaponry

Associated Press

Ukrainian soldiers ride a tank, on a road in Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Wednesday, July 20, 2022. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told state-controlled RT television and the RIA Novosti news agency that Russia has expanded its "special military operation" from eastern Ukraine's Donetsk and Luhansk provinces to include the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions and other captured territories. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

U.S. steps up rocket shipments to Ukraine amid intense fighting in Donbas region

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

People from Mariupol and eastern Ukraine disembark from a train at the railway station in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, Thursday, April 7, 2022, to be taken to temporary residences in the region. About 500 refugees from the Mariupol area arrived in Nizhny Novgorod on a special train organized by Russia from eastern Ukraine, about 500 miles (800 kilometers) from the border. (AP Photo)

‘The mouth of a bear’: Ukrainian refugees sent to Russia

By Lori Hinnant, Cara Anna, Vasilisa Stepanenko and Sarah El Deeb - Associated Press

In this April 14, 2021 file photo, CIA Director William Burns testifies during a Senate Select Committee on Intelligence hearing about worldwide threats, on Capitol Hill in Washington. A U.S. official says that CIA Director William Burns visited Kabul on Monday to meet with the Taliban’s top political leader. The official told The Associated Press the meeting between Burns and Abdul Ghani Baradar came amid the ongoing evacuations at the Kabul airport. (Saul Loeb/Pool via AP)

CIA chief: China set for takeover of Taiwan in next few years

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin listens to a question during a media briefing at the Pentagon, Wednesday, July 20, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Pentagon chief Austin pledges more firepower to Ukraine for Russia fight

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

A Ukrainian serviceman looks at a crater and damaged school after Russian shelling in a residential area in Chuhuiv, Kharkiv region, Ukraine, Saturday, July 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Ukraine’s defense chief says Russia should be given terrorist tag

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, speaks to Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi, back to a camera, on the sideline of the summit of Caspian Sea littoral states in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, on June 29, 2022. Putin's visit to Iran starting Tuesday, July 19, is intended to deepen ties with regional heavyweights as part of Moscow's challenge to the United States and Europe amid its grinding campaign in Ukraine. (Grigory Sysoyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

Putin in Tehran for talks with leaders of Iran, Turkey

By Nasser Karimi and Vladimir Isachenkov - Associated Press

This handout photo taken from video released by the Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Monday, July 18, 2022, shows Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, listening during a meeting during inspection of the Vostok battlegroup at an undisclosed location. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service photo via AP)

Russian minister says U.S. missiles a prime target in Ukraine bombing campaign

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Dairy cooperative managing director Bernhard Pointner poses in front of a turbine generator in Piding near Munich, Germany, Friday, July 15, 2022. The Molkerei Berchtesgadener Land has stockpiled 200,000 liters of fuel oil so it can continue to produce electricity and steam if natural gas supplies to its turbine generator are cut off. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

Economics of war: Pain for Europe now, later for Russia

Associated Press

South Korean Foreign Minister Park Jin, left, and Japanese counterpart Yoshimasa Hayashi bump elbows before their talks in Tokyo, Monday, July 18, 2022. (Kim Kyung-Hoon/Pool Photo via AP)

Japan, South Korea foreign ministers agree to improve ties

By Yuri Kageyama and Hyung-Jin Kim - Associated Press

Ukrainian soldiers ride a tank on a road, in Stupochky, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Sunday, July 10, 2022. Ukrainians living in the path of Russia's invasion in the besieged eastern Donetsk region are bracing themselves for the possibility that they will have to evacuate. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty, File)

Despite bravado, Russia seen ‘weakened’ by costs of Ukraine campaign

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy attends a joint press conference with Prime Minister of the Netherlands, Mark Rutte, following their meeting in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, July 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Kravchenko)

Zelenskyy fires top security chief over security breaches

By Hanna Arhirova and Cara Anna - Associated Press

Ukrainian soldiers ride a tank on a road, in Stupochky, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Sunday, July 10, 2022. Ukrainians living in the path of Russia's invasion in the besieged eastern Donetsk region are bracing themselves for the possibility that they will have to evacuate. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty, File)

Russia strikes south Ukraine city, presses attacks in east

By Hanna Arhirova and Cara Anna - Associated Press