2023-05-29 21:35:33
Russia has put South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham on its wanted list for allegedly saying in a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday that killing Russians is the best US investment in supporting Ukraine. in the war.
“Graham Olin Graham, American, born July 9, 1955, is wanted under a section of the Penal Code,” It appears in the database of the Ministry of the Interior, said today the official TASS agency, which stresses that it is not specified by virtue of which position the senator has been placed on the search list.
However, the chairman of the Investigation Committee of Russia, Alexandr Bastrikin, has ordered the opening of a criminal case for “russophobic statements” against Graham, according to this medium.
The reason would be an edited video posted by the Ukrainian Presidency of a meeting last Friday in kyiv between Zelensky and Graham, to whom the Ukrainian president thanks the American financial aid in the war against Russia.
“Freedom or death. We are free and we will be free”, Zelensky tells him, to which Graham replies: “(…) yes, and the Russians are dying. (It’s) the best money we’ve ever spent”according to the video broadcast on the Ukrainian leader’s Telegram channel.
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