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Former Ukraine President Viktor Yanukovych speaks during a news conference in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2019. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

Ukraine’s exiled ex-president claims possible vote rigging

By NATALIYA VASILYEVA - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 2, 2018 file photo, former Ukraine President Viktor Yanukovych gestures as he speaks at a news conference in Moscow. A court in the Ukrainian capital Kiev on Thursday Jan. 24, 2019, has found former president Viktor Yanukovych guilty of treason. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, File)

Ukrainian court convicts ex-president of treason

Associated Press

FILE - In this March 2, 2018 file photo, former Ukraine President Viktor Yanukovych gestures as he speaks at a news conference in Moscow. A lawyer representing Yanukovych said on Sunday, Nov. 18, 2018, that his client will be unable to appear before a Kiev court because of injuries sustained on a Moscow tennis court. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, File)

Ukraine ex-president Yanukovych to miss treason hearing

Associated Press

Ousted Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych speaks during the interview with The Associated Press, in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, on Wednesday, April 2, 2014. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)

Ukrainian prosecutors seek 15-year prison sentence for Yanukovych, Paul Manafort’s former client

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a joint press conference with Austrian President Alexander Van Der Bellen as part of a meeting in Vienna, Austria, Tuesday, June 5, 2018. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)

Vladimir Putin says no conditions exist for returning Crimea to Ukraine

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

Vice President Joseph R. Biden paid his respects in honor of the "Heavenly Hundred" during a ceremony at the monument dedicated to them in Kiev, Ukraine, on Dec. 7. The "Heavenly Hundred" is what Ukrainians call those who died during months of anti-government protests two years ago that ended in new leadership but not much change. (Associated Press)

Ukraine revolution ousted pro-Russia government, but ‘cancer of corruption’ remains

By Olga Rudenko - Special to The Washington Times

In this photo taken Saturday March 14, 2015, Ukrainian activist Andrei Schekun speaks to The Associated Press in the family's rented apartment outside Kiev, Ukraine. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Crimea exiles fight to keep Ukraine unity message alive

By Peter Leonard - Associated Press

ADDS THAT RUSSIAN NEWS AGENCIES REPORTED THAT THE MEETING WAS HELD AT AN EARLIER DATE In this image supplied by the Presidential Press Service Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with the regional leader of Karelia in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, March 11, 2015 . The Kremlin’s press service attempted to dispel the rumors about Putin's health Wednesday by issuing a photo of a meeting between Putin and the regional governor of Karelia. However, local news agencies had reported on the meeting as early as March 5. Russian news agency RBC cited an anonymous source in the Karelian governor’s office as saying that the meeting had actually taken place March 4. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Alexei Druzhinin, Presidential Press Service)

Putin: Russia prepared raising nuclear readiness over Crimea

By JIM HEINTZ - Associated Press

Ukraine, EU sign historic trade and economic pact

By John-Thor Dahlburg - Associated Press

In this Oct. 11, 2012, file photo Hunter Biden waits for the start of the his father's, Vice President Joe Biden's, debate at Centre College in Danville, Ky. Vice President Biden’s trip to Ukraine this weekend, June 7-8, 2014, to support that nation’s fragile democracy comes weeks after his youngest son, Hunter, 44, was hired by a private Ukrainian company that promotes energy independence from Russia. Hunter Biden’s employment means he will be working as a director and top lawyer for a Ukrainian energy company during the period when his father and the rest of the Obama administration attempt to influence the policies of Ukraine’s new government, especially on ever-important energy issues since Ukraine is an important natural-gas and petroleum-liquids transit country. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Ukrainian energy firm hires Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, as lawyer

By Stephen Braun - Associated Press

Ukrainian presidential candidate Petro Poroshenko, right, is welcomed by his supporters during a rally in Kruvuy Rig, Ukraine, Saturday, May 17, 2014. A Presidential vote in Ukraine is scheduled for May 25. (AP Photo/Mykola Lazarenko, Pool)

Candy tycoon the front-runner for Ukraine’s next president

Associated Press

** FILE ** In this April 29, 2014, file photo, Ukrainian Prime Minister, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, speaks to lawmakers during a session at the Ukrainian parliament in Kiev. (AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov, File)

Ukraine’s leader gains stature with honest image

By Maria Danilova - Associated Press

Pro-Russian gunmen guard the central square of Slovyansk, eastern Ukraine, Friday, May 2, 2014. Fighting broke out around dawn near Slovyansk, a city 160 kilometers (100 miles) from the Russian border that has become the focus of the armed insurgency. Two helicopter crew members were killed in the crashes, both sides said, and the insurgents reported one member killed. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Ukraine offensive sparks deadly clashes in Odessa

By Jim Heintz and Peter Leonard - Associated Press

Andriy Poklonov, 35, his daughter Sofia, 8, and wife Evhenia, 35, pose for a photo in Kiev, Ukraine, Thursday, May 1, 2011. Despite the danger of war with Russia, the fear of losing more of their territory and tough economic times ahead, many Ukrainians in the center and west of the country are convinced that their country is moving in the right direction toward becoming a law-abiding European nation. (AP Photo/Maria Danilova)

Despite Russia crisis, Ukraine hopeful for future

By MARIA DANILOVA - Associated Press

A man warms himself at a fire next to barricades in front of an entrance of the Ukrainian regional office of the Security Service in Luhansk, 30 kilometers (20 miles) west of the Russian border, in Luhansk, Ukraine, late Saturday, April 12, 2014. Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov described the unrest as &quot;Russian aggression&quot; and said Ukraine's security officials would be gathering for an extraordinary meeting late Saturday evening. (AP Photo/Igor Golovniov)

Kiev government to deploy troops in Ukraine’s east

By PETER LEONARD - Associated Press

Armed pro-Russian activist stands at a makeshift checkpoint at the entrance into the eastern Ukrainian town of Slovyansk on Saturday, April 12, 2014. Pro-Moscow protesters have seized a number of government buildings in the east over the past week, undermining the authority of the interim government in the capital, Kiev. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Armed men occupy Donetsk police station; ‘Russian aggression’ blamed for unrest

By Peter Leonard - Associated Press

Masked pro-Russian activists pass by a barricade as they guard a regional administration building that they had seized earlier in Donetsk, Ukraine, Friday, April 11, 2014. Ukraine’s prime minister on Friday told leaders in the country’s restive east that he is committed to allowing regions to have more powers. Yatsenyuk Friday morning flew into Donetsk, where pro-Russian separatists are occupying the regional administration building and calling for a referendum that could prefigure seeking annexation by Russia. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Ukraine PM: Regions should have more powers

By PETER LEONARD - Associated Press

** FILE ** This Feb. 28, 2014, file-pool photo shows Russian President Vladimir Putin during his working meetings at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Russia. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti Presidential Press Service, Alexei Nikolsky, File-Pool)

Putin threatens to make Ukraine pay ahead for gas

By Laura Mills and Peter Leonard - Associated Press

President Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin (Associated Press) ** FILE **

LAMBRO: Putin’s Ukraine provocation, Obama’s inaction

By Donald Lambro

Pro-Russian activist wears a hand-made mask behind a barricade in front of the regional administration building in Donetsk, Ukraine, Tuesday, April 8, 2014, as the makings of an improved self-appointed government began to take shape, with demonstrators dug in for their third day at the 11-storey regional headquarters. Ukrainian authorities on Tuesday reasserted control over an administration building in the country’s second-largest city of Kharkiv, 250 Km ( 155 miles) north of Donetsk, which had been seized by pro-Russian protesters, and authorities detained some dozens. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Report: 60 people taken hostage in eastern Ukraine

By PETER LEONARD - Associated Press