Senators reintroduce bill to designate Russia’s Wagner Group as terrorist organization -
The Holding Accountable Russian Mercenaries Act, led by Sens. Benjamin L. Cardin, Maryland Democrat, and Roger Wicker, Mississippi Republican, aims to hold the paramilitary group accountable for human rights abuses in Ukraine by requiring the State Department to apply the designation to any entity associated with the Wagner Group.
Other sponsors include Sens. Richard Blumenthal, Connecticut Democrat; Sheldon Whitehouse, Rhode Island Democrat; Thom Tillis, North Carolina Republican; Jeanne Shaheen, New Hampshire Democrat; and Marco Rubio, Florida Republican. Adding the group to the State Department’s list of terrorist organizations would push the Wagner Group and its affiliates further to the fringes as the U.S. aims to sideline Russia for its invasion of Ukraine.
The White House assessed in December that the group has 50,000 mercenaries deployed to Ukraine, 40,000 of whom are convicts. The lawmakers cited a list of grievances beyond Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, including the Kremlin’s targeting of civilians during the Second Chechen War and the Syrian Civil War, as grounds for the designation.
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