The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs has put American Senator Lindsey Graham on the wanted list for words taken out of context

The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs put Republican US Senator Lindsey Graham on the wanted list. The corresponding card appeared in the search base of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. It does not specify under what article the American politician is wanted.

to initiate a criminal case against Graham The day before, the head of the Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin ordered . The reason for this was a video with a fragment of Graham's meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

“In a video circulated on the Internet, US Senator Lindsey Graham, during a meeting with the President of Ukraine, announced the financial participation of the United States in causing the death of Russian citizens,” the UK press release says.

In the video in question, Graham actually says that "the Russians are dying" and then, after a cut, adds, "We've never spent money so well."

Representatives of the Russian authorities sharply reacted to the video of the meeting with Graham published on Zelensky's Telegram channel.

“It is hard to imagine a greater shame for the country than to have such senators,” said Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov. And the representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, compared US assistance to Ukraine with the work of American enterprises in Nazi Germany.

In turn, the chairman of the Russian Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev , said that the United States spends money not only on killing Russians, but also on killing ordinary people and even senators. He reminded Graham of the sad fate of American politicians who died at the hands of assassins in different years.

“Let him remember the sad fate of Robert Kennedy, Huey Long, Clementa Carlos Pinckney, John Milton Elliott, Wayne Owens, and other American politicians,” Medvedev wrote.

Meanwhile, Reuters, which studied the full recording of Zelensky's meeting with Graham, claims that the words about the death of Russians and the successful spending of American money were said at different times and do not refer to each other.

So, according to the agency, the phrase about the successful spending of money concerned only financial assistance to Ukraine from the United States, and not the death of Russian soldiers.

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