Senator Graham applauds Ukrainian resistance, dismissing Russian criticism. U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham denied Russian accusations that he had supported Ukraine by praising Ukrainians’ resistance to a Russian invasion with Washington’s help.

Graham thanked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy for $38 billion in military aid since the conflict began in February 2022 at a Friday meeting in Kyiv.
He called the help “the best money we’ve ever spent.”

Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin spokesman, accused Graham of linking his comment about U.S. financial support to his later claim that Russians “are dying” in the battle.

Graham’s full statements released by the Ukrainian president’s office disproved this.

Graham said Ukrainians opposing the invasion reminded him of “our better selves in America” on the 457th day of a war Russia thought would end in three days. We fought to the last in America to be free or perish.
“Now you are free,” Zelenskiy said. “And we will be.”

Graham: “And the Russians are dying.”

“Yes, but they came to our territory,” Zelenskiy said. We’re not fighting on their turf.”

Peskov and other Russian authorities immediately linked Graham’s appreciation for U.S. aid to his statements on Russians dying in the conflict.

Zelenskiy’s office is initially unable to distinguish between the two utterances.

Peskov told Shot Telegram, “It is difficult to imagine a greater shame for a country than having such senators.”

Dmitry Medvedev, Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman, dubbed 67-year-old Republican Graham, an old idiot.
“The old fool Senator Lindsey Graham said that the United States has never spent money so successfully as on the murder of Russians,” Medvedev added. “He shouldn’t have done that.”

Graham responded.

“As usual the Russia propaganda machine is hard at work,” Graham told Reuters in an email on Sunday, alluding to Medvedev’s statements about his Kyiv visit, which he used to encourage Washington to deploy more weapons to Ukraine.

Graham said to Zelenskiy, “Ukraine has adopted the American mantra, ‘Live Free or Die.'” To rescue Ukraine from Russian war criminals, the US invested well.”

“Mr. Medvedev, if you want Russians to stop dying in Ukraine, withdraw,” he said. Don’t invade. Stop war crimes. “You and Putin could care less about Russian soldiers,” he remarked.

On Sunday, Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak tweeted that “in a complete and unconditional victory of Ukraine” was the best investment for the US and West.