The US Senate has registered a resolution recognizing the Russian Federation as a state sponsor of terrorism, reports " The document was co-sponsored by Democrat Richard Blumenthal and Republican Lindsey Graham..

In a resolution, the Senate recognizes the actions of the Russian government under the chairmanship of Vladimir Putin as acts of terrorism. In addition, the Senate calls on United States Secretary of State Anthony Blinken to recognize the Russian Federation as a state sponsor of terrorism..

" There are only four countries with this recognition: Cuba, Syria, Iran and North Korea. We are trying to include Russia in this list so that it is the fifth. This is the company to be associated with. These are totalitarian regimes, and they are not good,” said Lindsey Graham during the presentation of the resolution.

He added that for 20 years, Putin has avoided responsibility for the killings, so now is the time to recognize him as one that is in line with his actions..

" And Russia is in the hands of a terrorist state run by Putin,” said Senator Lindsey Graham..

In turn, Richard Blumenthal said that Russia sponsored terrorism even before the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.. After all, she had benefits, mercenaries, proxies in the Ukrainian state.

“I was visiting Ukraine as part of a bipartisan delegation shortly before the full-scale invasion, and my colleagues asked Zelensky: Are you afraid of a 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 been sponsoring terrorism for years and years and they should be held accountable for that,” Blumenthal added..

In the resolution, the senators identified a number of grounds for determining the Russian Federation as a state sponsored by terrorism, among them:.

at the direction of Putin, the Russian government continues to introduce acts of international terrorism against political opponents and other countries;

since 2014, the government of the Russian Federation has been supporting separatists involved in violence against civilians of Ukraine in Donbas;

Russia spreads terror around the world through private military mercenary networks such as the Wagner Group;

in February 2022, more than 400 Russian mercenaries from the Wagner group arrived in Kyiv on the orders of the Kremlin to kill President Volodymyr Zelensky and members of the Ukrainian government;

On March 14, 2022, OSCE Chairman-in-Office Zbigniew Rau stated that the actions of the Russian government in Ukraine against the civilian population and civilian infrastructure are “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 stated that \;

under Putin's orders, Russia continues to commit war crimes by ordering and giving permission to attack peaceful centers in Chechnya, Georgia, Syria, Ukraine, resulting in a myriad of deaths of civilian men, women and children;

The Russian military has committed countless murders of innocent civilians and tried to hide their 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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Yesterday, the Lithuanian Seimas recognized Russia as a terrorist state.. The corresponding resolution was supported by 128 votes in favour.. In the resolution, the Seimas stated that the armed forces of the Russian Federation and their mercenaries are massively committing war crimes in Ukraine, especially in Bucha, Irpen, Borodyanka, Gostomel and Mariupol. The document says that by its actions, the Russian Federation wants to destroy the Ukrainian nation in whole or in part, to break the spirit by killing entire families with children, kidnapping, torture, rape, mockery of the killed and tortured.