Co-authors of the resolution were representatives of both parties.
The US Senate registered a resolution on recognition of Russia as a sponsor of terrorism , reports “Voice of America”. Democrat Richard Blumenthal and Republican Lindsey Graham co-sponsored the document. The Senate also calls on United States Secretary of State Anthony Blinken to recognize Russia as a sponsor of terrorism.
“This recognition will be important in American law. There are only four countries that have such recognition: Cuba, Syria, Iran and North Korea. We are trying to include Russia in this list so that it is fifth. This is a company that should be associated with. These are totalitarian regimes, and they don't do any good, “Lindsay Graham said during a presentation of the resolution. his actions.
“He is a terrorist. And Russia is in the hands of a terrorist state ruled by Putin, “said Senator Lindsey Graham.
In turn, Richard Blumenthal said that Russia sponsored terrorism before the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. After all, she had allowances, mercenaries, proxies in the Ukrainian state.
“I visited Ukraine as part of a two-party delegation shortly before the full-scale invasion, and my colleagues asked Zelensky: Are you afraid of the Russian invasion? And he looked at us and said: “The Russians invaded our country in 2014, they killed 14,000 of our people.” They (the Russians) have sponsored terrorism for years and years, and they should be held accountable, “Blumenthal added.
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- on Putin's instructions, the Russian government continues to implement acts of international terrorism against political opponents and other countries;
- since 2014, the Russian government has supported separatists involved in violence against civilians in Donbas;
- Russia is spreading terror around the world through private military mercenary networks, such as the Wagner Group;
- In February 2022, more than 400 Russian Wagner mercenaries arrived in Kyiv on Kremlin orders to assassinate President Volodymyr Zelensky and members of the Ukrainian government;
- On March 14, 2022, the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Zbigniew Rau, stated that the actions of the Russian government in Ukraine against civilians and civilian infrastructure were “state terrorism”;
- On March 17, 2022, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky called on the world to recognize Russia as a terrorist state;
- On April 27, 2022, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken declared that “without a doubt, Russians are terrorizing the people of Ukraine”;
- on Putin's orders, Russia continues to commit war crimes by ordering and authorizing attacks on peaceful centers in Chechnya, Georgia, Syria, and Ukraine, resulting in countless deaths of civilian men, women, and children;
- Russia's military has committed countless killings of innocent people and tried to hide its atrocities in mass graves across Ukraine.
Senators want to add a resolution to the package of legislation on additional support for Ukraine.
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On the eve of Russia recognized the Lithuanian Seimas as a terrorist state . The resolution was supported by 128 votes in favor. In the resolution, the Seimas stated that the Russian armed forces and their mercenaries are committing mass war crimes in Ukraine, especially in Bucha, Irpen, Borodyanka, Gostomel and Mariupol. The document states that by its actions the Russian Federation wants to destroy the Ukrainian nation in whole or in part, to break the spirit by killing whole families with children, kidnapping, torture, rape, bullying of the killed and tortured.
