Two members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee called on Sunday for tougher Western sanctions against Russia to include its petrochemical and banking industries and warned that Moscow thus far has ignored US and European efforts to persuade it to back off its confrontation with Ukraine.
“We’ve helped in many ways to create the problems that exist there. And to leave them alone in the manner that we’re leaving them alone to me is just unconscionable,” Sen Bob Corker, the committee’s senior Republican member, said on NBC television’s “Meet the Press.”