Image: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is greeted, from left, by Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., Sen. Jim Risch, R-Idaho, and Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., as he arrives to meet with senators in the Capitol on Tuesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

John M. Donnelly for Roll Call reports: “The Senate on Wednesday evening took another step closer to advancing a bill that would impose long-stalled sanctions on Russia over its war on Ukraine and extend for five more years sanctions on Iran.

The Senate voted 84-12 in favor of a motion to proceed to consideration of the legislative vehicle for the measure, which would punish certain Russians and Iranians and those who do business with them.

Champions of the measure are fresh off a satisfying initial Senate procedural vote Tuesday night to abridge debate on the motion to proceed to the legislative vehicle for the bill. With Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy looking on from the gallery, the 86-12 vote Tuesday showed overwhelming support for the bill…”

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