The Russian foreign ministry accused U.S. Senators of undermining the work of Moscow and Washington on the reunification of Ukrainian children with their families, an effort spearheaded by First Lady Melania Trump .

The U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations advanced a bill from Senator Lindsey Graham that would designate Russia a state sponsor of terrorism under U.S. law " if they do not return the almost 20,000 Ukrainian children they kidnapped from occupied areas," the South Carolina Republican said in a statement hailing the progress of his legislation.

Russia is accused of taking thousands of Ukrainian children into Russia during the war, separating them from their families and indoctrinating them with Russian nationalism as part of its effort to erase the sovereignty and na

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