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In this photo taken on Tuesday, April 5, 2016, Natalya Vetrova, one year old, sleeps holding a bottle with fresh cow milk at home in Zalyshany, 53 km (32 miles) southwest of the destroyed reactor of the Chernobyl plant, Ukraine. Her village is in one of the sections of Ukraine contaminated by radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl nuclear explosion. (AP Photo/Mstyslav Chernov)

Ukraine children eat food tainted by Chernobyl

By Yuras Karmanau - Associated Press

The shell of pre-revolutionary building in Mariupol, Ukraine. (Photo by L. Todd Wood)

L. TODD WOOD: War Is ending in Ukraine

By L. Todd Wood

A newly mobilized Ukrainian soldier shows his skills during military drills in base Desna 100km north from Kiev, Ukraine, Friday, Feb. 13, 2015. Fierce fighting surged in East Ukraine as Russian-backed separatists mounted a major and sustained new push Friday to capture a strategic railway hub ahead of a weekend cease-fire deadline. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

L. TODD WOOD: Is East Ukraine about to blow?

By L. Todd Wood

Gen. George S. Patton Jr., left, commander of the U.S. 15th Army, and his chief of staff, Maj. Gen. H.R. Gay, right, are pictured in an undated photo. (AP Photo) ** FILE **

L: TODD WOOD: If you want to arm Ukraine, arm it with economic progress

By L. Todd Wood

Ukrainian government soldier walks atop of his armored vehicle on the road between the towns of Dabeltseve and Artemivsk, Ukraine, Sunday, Feb. 15, 2015. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

Battle persists for Ukraine railway hub, despite peace deal

By Petr Josek - Associated Press

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, left, inspects military armored personnel carriers during his visit to the State Border Guard Service in Kiev, Ukraine, Saturday, Feb. 14, 2015. (AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov)

Fierce fighting in Ukraine as cease-fire deadline approaches

Associated Press

German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks during a joint news conference with the Prime Minster of Moldova Iurie Leanca, as part of a meeting at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, July 10, 2014. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn) ** FILE **

German government sites downed by pro-Russian hackers: ‘We will not forgive’

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

The Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy hospital ship Peace Ark. (AP Photo/Marco Garcia)

Inside China: Money dispute with Kiev threatens future Chinese arms buys

By Miles Yu

Coal miners stuck in the middle of Ukraine’s war

By Nataliya Vasilyeva - Associated Press

FILE In this file photo taken on Friday, Aug. 29, 2014, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov speaks to the media during his and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif after their talks in Moscow, Russia . Russia’s foreign minister Sergey Lavrov urged those holding a new round of talks Monday on easing Ukraine’s crisis to push for a cease-fire between Ukrainian government troops and pro-Russian separatists.(AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, file)

Pro-Russian rebels lower demands in peace talks

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV and JIM HEINTZ - Associated Press

President Barack Obama pauses while speaking about the economy, Iraq, and Ukraine, Thursday, Aug. 28, 2014, in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, before convening a meeting with his national security team on the militant threat in Syria and Iraq. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Russian fund with US advisers eludes sanctions

By JEFF HORWITZ and STEPHEN BRAUN - Associated Press

Ukrainian troops inch closer to rebel city Donetsk

By Peter Leonard - Associated Press

People walking among burning debris at the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 near the village of Hrabove, eastern Ukraine. Ukrainian armed forces mounted a major onslaught against pro-Russian separatist fighters Sunday in an attempt to gain control over the area. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky, File)

Fighting intensifies near MH17 disaster site

Associated Press

A pro-Russian rebel holds a gun passing by plane wreckage as members of the OSCE mission to Ukraine arrive for a media briefing at the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, near the village of Hrabove, eastern Ukraine, Tuesday, July 22, 2014. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda) ** FIL E**

U.S. intelligence nearly certain pro-Russian separatists downed Malaysian Airlines flight

By Guy Taylor and Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

A difficult duty: The stench of death was nearly overwhelming Monday as Alexander Hug (center right), deputy head of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, led a forensics investigation team near the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in eastern Ukraine. (Associated Press)

Vladimir Putin pressured to aid Ukraine plane crash probe, rein in rebels

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Rescue workers carry a plastic bag with a dead body at the crash site of a Malaysia Airlines jet near the village of Hrabove, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, July 19, 2014. Ukraine accused Russia on Saturday of helping separatist rebels destroy evidence at the crash site of a Malaysia Airlines plane shot down in rebel-held territory &#8212; a charge the rebels denied. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Monitors try to secure Ukraine crash site of Malaysian airliner

Associated Press

Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, July 9, 2014, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing to examine Russia and developments in Ukraine. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Senate committee presses Obama administration on inaction against Russia

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Pro-Russian insurgents with the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic man a checkpoint by the Karl Marx coal mine seen in the background near Korsun, a small town about 30 km north-east from Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, Tuesday, May 13, 2014. The words on the wall of barricades read &quot; No fascism&quot;. The Donetsk People's Republic has proclaimed independence from Ukraine after a contentious autonomy referendum Sunday that has been rejected by the government and the international community. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Ukraine launches talks but its foes are missing

By NATALIYA VASILYEVA and YURAS KARMANAU - Associated Press

Ukraine: 6 soldiers ambushed, killed in the east

By Nataliya Vasilyeva - Associated Press

Roundup for Russia: Militants march Ukrainian state employees away from the regional administration building in Donetsk on Monday, continuing their campaign of seizing and ransacking government buildings across restive eastern Ukraine. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

With eye on Ukraine’s May 25 elections, U.S. warns Russia to quell crisis as violence intensifies

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times