Washington, May 13 -- Rep. Joe Wilson issued the following press release:

Representatives Joe Wilson (R-SC), senior member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Europe and Jonathan Jackson (D-IL), member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa, introduced the'Countering Russia's Forced Recruitment and Kidnapping in Africa Act.'

This legislation imposes sanctions on foreign persons and foreign governments participating in or facilitating the recruitment of foreign nationals from African countries for the purpose of fighting war criminal Putin's war in Ukraine.

"War criminal Putin and his state-run "mercenary" outfits have generated chaos and misery everywhere they've gone, now extending into k...