Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., speaks during a Senate Appropriations hearing on the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2024, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May 16, 2023.
MOSCOW, Russia
Russia’s Interior Ministry has
issued an arrest warrant for Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.)
after he praised U.S. military aid to Ukraine as “the best money we’ve ever
spent.”
Russian officials reacted to a
video of Graham’s meeting Friday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in
which Graham acknowledged “Russians are dying” and then said in another moment
that “it’s the best money we ever spent.”
Graham appeared to make the
comments in different parts of the conversation, which was edited and posted on
Zelensky’s social media account.
Russia’s Investigative
Committee has also opened a criminal case against Graham, asserting that the
Republican senator “declared the financial involvement of the United States is
causing the death of Russian citizens.”
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov criticized
the comments as a “shame.”
“It’s difficult to imagine a
greater shame for a country than having such senators,” he said.
Russian Security Council
Deputy Chairman Dmitry
Medvedev said “Graham shouldn’t have done that” and called the
67-year-old lawmaker an “old fool.”
Graham later dismissed the
criticisms by Russian officials as “propaganda.”
“As usual the Russia
propaganda machine is hard at work,” he told Reuters.
“Mr. Medvedev, if you want
Russians to stop dying in Ukraine, withdraw. Stop the invasion. Stop the war
crimes. The truth is that you and Putin could care
less about Russian soldiers,” he said, referring to Russian President Vladimir
Putin.
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