A bipartisan congressional effort to designate Russia a state sponsor of terrorism received a renewed push during a Dec. 3 Senate hearing on allegations that Moscow is kidnapping and brainwashing tens of thousands of Ukrainian children.
Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) first introduced legislation in 2022 to designate the Russian government as a “state sponsor of terrorism” months after it invaded Ukraine, and on the same day, Russian forces shot a missile on the Karachunivske reservoir, causing it to break and flood Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s home city, Kryvyi Rih.
