Vladimir Putin suffered a major setback after bipartisan U.S. senators moved to advance a sweeping anti-Russia sanctions bill as his friendship with Donald Trump unravels.
In an overwhelming 86-12 vote, senators cleared the way for the sanctions bill, a measure championed by Sen. Lindsey Graham, the South Carolina Republican who died suddenly on July 11 at age 71. Graham had spent more than a year relentlessly pushing for tougher sanctions on Moscow and had just returned from Kyiv when he suffered a fatal aortic dissection.
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