Sen. Lindsey Graham is pushing legislation to designate Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism if it does not return the approximately 19,000 Ukrainian children whom international monitors say were forcibly taken to Russia, the South Carolina Republican told Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures.”
“Russia has kidnapped 19,000 Ukrainian children, taken from Ukrainian families and sent to Russia,” the senator said. “If they do not return these children to Ukraine, then I’m going to push legislation to make Russia a state sponsor of terrorism under U.S. law.”
Graham stressed that Russia “should be a state sponsor of terrorism until they return the children. So any peace deal must include the return of the kidnapped children by Russia to Ukraine.”
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