Bloomberg: US Senate panel backs measure calling Russia "terror sponsor"

The US Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee advanced a measure that would direct the secretary of state to designate Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism for its invasion of Ukraine, putting it in the same category as Iran, Syria, North Korea and Cuba.

Both chambers of Congress would have to pass the measure for it to be sent to President Joe Biden’s desk to be signed into law, Bloomberg reported on June 24. 

Earlier in the day, Senator Jim Risch, the top Republican on the committee, told an audience that included Ukrainian Ambassador to the US Oksana Markarova that Russia’s actions make it a “bully” and a state sponsor of terrorism because it invaded a country that was smaller in size, population and military capability.