Interior Ministry puts US Senator Lindsey Graham on the wanted list

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia put US Senator Lindsey Graham on the wanted list under a criminal article, follows from the base of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

The day before, on May 28, the chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia, Alexander Bastrykin, instructed to open a criminal case in connection with the senator’s statements about the death of Russians. The press service of the UK called Graham’s words “Russophobic”. They noted that on a widespread video recording of the meeting between the senator and the Ukrainian president, Graham announced “the financial participation of the United States in causing the death of Russian citizens.” The department promised to give his statements a proper legal assessment, without specifying under which article a criminal case would be initiated.

Senator Graham during a meeting with Zelensky on May 27 named death of Russians “the most successful waste” of the money of the American authorities. Russians are dying <...> We have never spent money so well,” said Graham. The message, which was published by the press service of the Ukrainian president, also mentions the latest US military aid package for Ukraine for $375 million.

After that, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova reminded about the US “investment” in Nazi Germany that led to the Holocaust. In particular, she mentioned the founder of the Ford automobile company, Henry Ford, who was a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the German Eagle, as well as the Coca-Cola company, which “dutifully supplied” German soldiers with soda. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov named “a great shame for the country” to have senators like Lindsey Graham.

Today, May 29, Reuters wrotethat Graham, during a meeting with Zelensky, praised the morale of the Ukrainian military, which they fight with military assistance from Washington, but he did not say that the death of Russians was the best investment the United States made. According to the agency, in the full version of the politicians’ conversation, the words about the death of Russians were uttered after Graham’s discourse on the heroic pages of US history, when Americans “fought to the last man” to be free. After that, Zelensky expressed the hope that the Ukrainians would also be free. Graham responded by noting that “the Russians are dying,” after which Zelensky said: “Yes, but they came to our territory. We are not fighting on their territory.” There were no words about the successful investment of American funds in this fragment.