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    Commentary: The ultimate sanction: Listing Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism

    by Jason M. Blazakis, Los Angeles Times Mar 04, 2022 3 minutes
    Anastasia Vakulenko, left, consoles Natalya Chikonova, right, as she breaks down talking about her worries and the war that is raging above ground, while they seek shelter underground in a subway station in Kyiv, Ukraine, on March 2, 2022.

    Almost daily since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last week, the United States and allies in Europe and Asia have been tightening the sanctions vise on Moscow. Yet even devastating blows to the Russian state and its economy did not give President Vladimir Putin pause as he unleashed a brutal overnight assault on Ukraine’s second-largest city.

    “The attack on Kharkiv is a war crime,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Tuesday. “This is state terrorism of the Russian Federation.”

    Zelenskyy’s words

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