US State Department building in Washington DC. File photoWASHINGTON, Apr 19 US State Department spokesman Ned Price told CNN that the US is looking into listing Russia as a «terrorist accomplice».
"We are looking into the facts. We are carefully studying the law", Price said.
According to an unnamed channel source in the administration, the possibility of including Russia on the list is seen as a «tool to hold the Russian Federation accountable» for the situation around Ukraine.White House official Jen Psaki at a briefing on Monday did not speak about the prospects for including the Russian Federation in the list of countries sponsoring terrorism. According to Psaki, there are only three countries on the corresponding list — North Korea, Iran and Sudan. operation in Ukraine on 24 February. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and , on March 25, completed the main tasks of the first stage — significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.