<p>South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham and Connecticut Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal introduced a resolution on Tuesday to designate Russia as a state sponsor of terror.</p>
<p>The resolution urged Secretary of State Antony Blinken to add the designation to Russia over its invasion of Ukraine.</p>
<p>&#8220;Now, therefore, be it Resolved, That the Senate &#8212; views the actions of the Government of the Russian Federation, at the direction of President Vladimir Putin, as acts of terrorism,&#8221; the<a href="https://www.lgraham.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/5496358a-cb7d-43c4-ad73-34866ec00e87/sst-resolution.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> resolution</a> noted.</p>
<p>https://twitter.com/tobydouthat/status/1524063085383884801</p>
<p>The U.S. currently lists only four nations as state sponsors of terror. The nations include Cuba, Iran, North Korea, and Syria.</p>
<p>&#8220;Last week the Ukrainian government took a vote urging the U.S. Congress to designate Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism. So we heard their plea and we&#8217;re answering their request,&#8221; Graham <a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?520119-1/senators-graham-blumenthal-news-conference-war-ukraine" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.</p>
<p>&#8220;We should be all-in in making sure that Putin is marginalized and his country is marginalized as long as his country is engaged in the matter that they are engaging in,&#8221; he added during the press conference.</p>
<p>Graham also spoke out against Putin in an interview on &#8220;Fox News Sunday&#8221; to call for regime change.</p>
<p>&#8220;If we back off prosecuting Putin as a war criminal, all the laws on the books become a joke. If we don&#8217;t get this right, China will certainly invade Taiwan,&#8221; the senator argued.</p>
<p>&#8220;There is no off ramp in this war. Somebody&#8217;s going to win and somebody&#8217;s going to lose,&#8221; he <a href="https://news.yahoo.com/graham-pushes-label-russia-state-135543943.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.</p>
<p>Graham noted Monday on Twitter that he also <a href="https://twitter.com/LindseyGrahamSC/status/1523660202758873089" target="_blank" rel="noopener">supports</a> Finland and Sweden joining NATO.</p>
<p>&#8220;NATO needs to get bigger, not smaller,&#8221; the senator tweeted. &#8220;If Finland and Sweden join NATO and Europe breaks away from dependence on Russian oil and gas, and Putin is declared a war criminal, that would be the best outcome for the world writ large.&#8221;</p>
<p>Blumenthal, who serves as the bipartisan sponsor of the resolution, has also spoken out strongly against Russia.</p>
<p>&#8220;Russia’s horrific inhumanity—barbaric atrocities &amp; war crimes—have richly earned its designation as a state sponsor of terrorism. I’ll be leading this resolution with Senator Graham, applying stiffer sanctions &amp; making it a true pariah among nations,&#8221; he <a href="https://twitter.com/SenBlumenthal/status/1523332910073335808" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> on Twitter Monday.</p>
<p>The resolution comes as missiles continue to strike civilians in Ukraine more than 70 days after Russia&#8217;s invasion launched on February 24.</p>
<p class="Component-root-0-2-258 Component-p-0-2-249">&#8220;Ukraine said Russian forces fired seven missiles Monday at Odesa, hitting a shopping center and a warehouse in the country’s largest port. One person was killed and five wounded, the military said,&#8221; the Associated Press <a href="https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-putin-business-nato-moscow-c8e00f7bbc4f24aa40d70a4ac2d97adb" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.</p>
<p>&#8220;Images overnight showed a burning building and debris — including a tennis shoe — in a heap of destruction in the city on the Black Sea. Mayor Gennady Trukhanov later visited the warehouse and said it &#8216;had nothing in common with military infrastructure or military objects,'&#8221; the report added.</p>
<p>Graham&#8217;s announcement also comes one day after Putin&#8217;s Victory Day speech that many feared could escalate the war. Putin&#8217;s words did not declare victory but instead indicated the Ukrainian invasion could be part of a long-term war.</p>

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