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MaxHunder and SergiyKarazy
KYIV — Two U.S. Senators trying to pass a law designating Russia as a "national sponsor of terrorism" will move the capital of Ukraine on Thursday With President Volodymyr Zelensky, who visited and discussed the bill.
Republican Lindsey Graham told Reuters in a joint interview with Democrat Richard Blumenthal that the bill would put Russia in the "Iran, Syria, and North Korea categories." Graham said he believes he can get almost unanimous support in the US Senate.
Zelensky thanked his senator for his work and emphasized the importance of bipartisan US support.
Blumenthal quoted a photo of alleged Russian troops committing atrocities in the Kyiv satellite city of Bucha in March as evidence that Russia deserves designation. Ukrainian and international prosecutors are investigating who is responsible.
"If it's not terrorism, I don't know what it is," he said.
Russian troops invaded Ukraine on February 24, and Moscow denied they targeted civilians.
INSURGENCY SUPPORT
Both Senators launch a counterattack and regain the occupied territory by Ukraine effectively using the rebellion in the Russian occupied territories with a US-supplied weapons system. According to Russia, who said he believed he could.
"Long-range artillery is very important, but so is the hand-to-hand combat we want to see in eastern Ukraine, a territory already occupied by Russians," Brumenthal said. I did.
Blumenthal also said that under conditions made by Ukraine, it helped supply more weapons to Ukraine, including "longer range" HIMARS anti-ship missiles and air defense systems. .. Do not use these to attack Russian territory.
The Biden administration previously decided to give Ukraine long-range HIMARS ammunition up to 300 miles in fear that Ukraine could use its weapons aggressively rather than defensively. I refused.
Graham emphasized the urgent need for the transportation of weapons, reflecting the call for prompt delivery by Ukrainian officials seeking to retain part of Moscow's coveted eastern Donbus region. ..
"There is an opportunity here in the next 60 days ... The decisions we make can change the course of this war in favor of Ukraine," Graham said.
Russia's President Vladimir Putin will defeat it on the battlefield on Thursday, claiming that Russia has barely started in Ukraine and Moscow is still open to the idea of peace talks. Said that he dared to go to the west. (Report by Max Hunder and Sergiy Karazy, edited by Grant McCool)
