The death of Senator Lindsey Graham leaves key U.S. allies like Ukraine, which have at times struggled to influence the Trump administration, without one of their most effective conduits to the White House.
In the last three days before he died, the South Carolina senator met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, strolled through a drone production factory in Ukraine and sealed an agreement with senators to advance a Russia sanctions bill.
It was the South Carolina Republican¡¯s 10th visit to the country since Russia launched a full-scale invasion in 2022, and he had spent much of Donald Trump¡¯s second term trying to sustain U.S. support for Ukraine¡¯s defense against a Russian invasion, despite the U.S. president¡¯s testy relationship with Zelenskyy.
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