U.S. Congresswoman introduces res. asking NATO and EU countries not to sell major weapons to Russia, says Russia needs to withdraw troops from Moldova

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, a Republican congresswoman from Florida, recently introduced a resolution "expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that France and other member states of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the European Union should decline to sell major weapons systems or offensive military equipment to the Russian Federation."

The bill is co-sponsored by John Shimkus, a Republican congressman from Illinois.

It mentioned, among other things, that NATO and E.U. states should not give Russia major weapons systems until Moscow has "fulfilled its commitments to withdraw its military forces from the Transnistrian region of the Republic of Moldova."

The text of the resolution is available here.

The resolution has been referred to the House Foreign Affairs Committee and is currently being analyzed.