A top Senate Republican accused Russia of engaging in “state terrorism” following the murder of a prominent critic of President Vladimir Putin who had fled the country.

“Today, in yet another brazen act of Russian state terrorism, former Russia parliamentarian Denis Voronenkov was assassinated in broad daylight on the streets of Kiev,” Senate Armed Services Committee chairman John McCain, R-Ariz., said Thursday.

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