Republican Sen. Thom Tillis (N.C.) and Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (N.H.), the ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued a joint statement Wednesday calling on colleagues to “swiftly pass” sanctions legislation against Russia in response to its latest airstrike against Kyiv.

Tillis and Shaheen accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of escalating the war by launching a massive drone and cruise missile attack over the weekend that damaged a key government building in Kyiv.

And more than 20 civilians were killed in the Donbas region by a Russian bomb as they lined up to receive pension payments.

“At the very moment Putin escalates, the United States appears to be cutting back. Programs like Section 333 security cooperation, which includes the Baltic Security Ini

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