Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) on Wednesday introduced a bi-partisan bill that would designate the Russian government as a “state sponsor of terrorism.”
It comes the same day that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy described Russia as a “terrorist state” after Russian forces fired a missile on the Karachunivske reservoir, which broke and flooded the president’s home city, Kryvyi Rih, forcing evacuations.
“Putin has crossed every line of civilized norms during the war in Ukraine and years before,” Graham said in a statement.
“He has engaged in state-sponsored assassinations, the Wagner group supported by Russia terrorizes the world, and the war crimes being committed in Ukraine on a daily basis shock the conscious,” he continued, referring to the private Russian military, Wagner group, whose mercenaries have been accused of war crimes in Africa and Ukraine….