2023-05-29 21:22:30
US Senator Lindsey Graham denies calling the death of Russians “a better expense than [les Etats-Unis aient] never made”
During an interview with Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday in kyiv, whose video was published on the Telegram channel of the Ukrainian PresidencyRepublican Lindsey Graham, a senator from South Carolina, describes US aid to the country as “the best expense that [les Etats-Unis aient] never made”. A statement that immediately precedes, through an unfortunate editing of the video of the meeting, another of his remarks: “And the Russians are dying. »
This sequence of remarks, which obviously have no connection between them, was immediately extracted – and taken out of context – by the channel Telegram Shot (near the Kremlin), who hastened to comment on these images: “Lindsey Graham said, in a meeting with Mr. Zelensky, that the Russians were dying thanks to “the best expense that [les Etats-Unis aient] never made”. » And to add the reaction of Vladimir Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov: “It’s hard to imagine a greater disgrace to the country than to have senators like this. »
However, in the full version of the recorded conversation made available by the Ukrainian president’s office and seen by Archyde.com, the sentence about the death of the Russians and the one about the American investments do not follow each other. Lindsey Graham tells Vlodymyr Zelensky that the Ukrainian resistance reminds her of a time when Americans were fighting to the last man: “There was a time in America when we were [dans la même situation], fighting to the end, to be free, or die. » Volodymyr Zelensky lui répond : “Now you are free. We will be too. » It is at this moment that the American senator retorts: “And the Russians are dying. » The Ukrainian president then replied: “Yes, but they entered our territory. We are not at war on their territory. »
Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, meanwhile called Lindsey Graham in flowery terms: “Old fool Senator Lindsey Graham said the United States had never spent money so successfully as on murdering Russians. He shouldn’t have done that. »
Remarks that Lindsey Graham criticized in a press release sent on Sunday at Archyde.com : “As usual, the Russian propaganda machine is working hard. » He adds that he had told Volodymyr Zelensky “that Ukraine has embraced the American mantra ‘Live free or die’ (“live Free or Die”). It was a good investment by the United States to help liberate Ukraine from Russian war criminals”. He concludes by addressing the Vice-President of the Security Council: “Mr. Medvedev, if you want Russians to stop dying in Ukraine, stand down. Stop the invasion. Stop war crimes. The truth is that you and [le président Vladimir] Putin doesn’t care about Russian soldiers anymore. »
The Russian Interior Ministry has taken up the case, reports RIA Novosti, Monday, May 29. According to the news agency, the investigating committee had been ordered to initiate criminal proceedings following the remarks described as “Russophobes” of the US senator.
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