Group of senators push for Congress to have the Russian-backed paramilitary Wagner group formally labeled as terrorists.
ahead of next week's one-year anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, they said during a joint press conference.
"This means people associated with the group can be expelled from the United States, denied admission, people assisting with the Wagner group in any fashion subject to sanctions," Graham, R-S.C., said. "And we're putting you on the baddest list we know how to put any organization." The Wagner group reportedly first emerged around 2014, toward the beginning of the Ukraine-Russia conflict on the Crimean Peninsula, which Russia illegally annexed from Ukraine.
The HARM Act notes that Wagner fighters have been "have committed, or are credibly accused of committing, terrorist activity" including "massacres, rape, and torture of civilians in Bucha, Ukraine" as well as "massacres in Moura, Mali" and the "kidnapping of children in the Central African Republic," among other incidents.
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