Russia reacted sharply on Sunday to the statements of US Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, who, in a conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi, said that the military aid offered to Ukraine by the US was the best way that Washington had ever spent money and that “Russians are dying.” , reports Reuters Agerpres.

“Now we are free,” Zelenskyy says to Grem, whom he received on Friday in Kyiv. “And the Russians are dying,” the American senator replies, according to footage released by the press service of the Ukrainian president.

“It’s the best way I’ve ever spent money,” says Lindsey Graham, referring to U.S. military support for Ukraine’s war with Russia.

“It’s hard to imagine a greater shame for the country than having such senators,” Kremlin press secretary Dmytro Peskov responded to these statements on Telegram.

For his part, former Russian President and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev described Graham, 67, as a “crazy old man.”

In the explanations given to the Reuters agency after the reaction from Moscow, the American senator claims that “Russian propaganda, as always, is working hard.” He recalls telling Zelensky that “Ukraine has adopted the American mantra of ‘Life in freedom or death’, so ‘it’s a good investment for the US to help free Ukraine from Russian war criminals.’ “Mr. Medvedev, if you want Russians to stop dying in Ukraine, go away! Stop the invasion! Stop the war crimes!” – adds the congressman.