A bipartisan group of senators is trying once again to pass a bill that would require the State Department to designate the Wagner Group, a Russian paramilitary group, as a foreign terrorist organization.
The private army group has become prominent as it fights alongside Russia's military while the country invades Ukraine. Lawmakers cited the Russian mercenary company’s history of human rights violations in Africa and its deployment of private soldiers in Ukraine to fight on behalf of Russia.
“The Wagner Group has murdered journalists, kidnapped children, raped women, engaged in savage conduct that gives new meaning to the word foreign terrorist organization,” said Blumenthal at a press conference on Thursday.The legislation would go a step further than the action from the Treasury Department last month that designated the Wagner Group as a transnational criminal organization responsible for widespread human rights abuses.
In a fiercely divided Senate, the legislation appears to have an overwhelming amount of bipartisan support. Whitehouse said he’d like to see the bill passed quickly. “President Zelensky is very aware of what the United States Congress does. He was very tuned into the resolution that was passed, asking the administration to declare Russia a state sponsor of terrorism. He tracks very closely of what happens in this country,” Blumenthal said.
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