A group of U.S. senators said on February 15 that they would try again to pass legislation that would require the State Department to designate the Russian mercenary company Wagner Group as a foreign terrorist organization (FTO). Led by Senator Ben Cardin (Democrat-Maryland) and Senator Roger Wicker (Republican-Mississippi), the senators said they had reintroduced the Holding Accountable Russian Mercenaries (HARM) act, seeking to hold Wagner accountable for human rights violations in Ukraine and elsewhere by adding it to the FTO blacklist. To read the original story from Reuters, click here.
U.S. Lawmakers Want Terrorist Designation For Russia's Wagner Group
Yevgeny Prigozhin is the founder of the Wagner mercenary group. (file photo)