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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Ukrainian parliament thundered with applause as Joe Biden stepped into the wood-paneled chamber a little more than six years ago. Five hundred miles to the south and east, Russian troops and separatists were occupying parts of the country, and President Barack Obama had dispatched his vice president in a show of solidarity with the besieged nation.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Ukrainian parliament thundered with applause as Joe Biden stepped...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Ukrainian parliament thundered with applause as Joe Biden stepped...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Ukrainian parliament thundered with applause as Joe Biden stepped...

Washington, and its allies in Europe, are finalizing an extensive package of sanctions if Russia were to launch an invasion according to U.S. and European officials.

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America’s chaotic exit from Afghanistan last year was a made-for-TV tragedy — complete with camera-ready scenes of frantic civilians, harried US Marines and helicopters hovering over an embassy roof. Ukraine is a foreign policy conundrum of an entirely different sort. President Joe Biden’s task is to stop a war from beginning, not to end one with dignity. But even if he wards off a Russian invasion, he shouldn’t expect any ticker tape on Fifth Avenue.

Sanctions experts say more than any other measure, aggressive action against Russia's state banks would hit its economy the hardest

AVDIIVKA, Ukraine—In the trenches of eastern Ukraine, across the tense contact lines with Russia-backed separatists, a soldier’s calm verges on numbness after a sniper’s bullet recently killed one of the 50 or so men under his command. It is the sort of thing that has happened from time to time…

In the trenches of eastern Ukraine, across the tense contact lines with Russia-backed separatists, a soldiers calm verges on numbness after a snipers bullet recently killed one of the 50 or so men under his command.