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The report indicates that republican Senator Lindsey Graham, a close ally of US President Donald Trump, has died at the age of 71.
It further notes that his office released a statement saying he died on Saturday evening following “a brief and sudden illness”.
Elected to the Senate in 2002, the South Carolina politician was one of Washington’s most influential voices on foreign policy.
He had just returned from Kyiv, where he met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday. There were no known health concerns ahead of his trip.
In a social media post marking the senator’s death, Trump stated Graham was a “true American Patriot”.
While Trump and many of his allies have been lukewarm in their support for Ukraine and have taken a more conciliatory tone towards Russia, Graham was a staunch supporter of arming Kyiv and applying sanctions against Moscow.
In his most recent trip to the country, Graham was working on a version of the Russia sanctions bill, which he stated would give “tools to President Trump to end this war”.
Zelensky stated he was “deeply saddened” by the news of the senator’s death.
In a post on his official X account, he stated Graham had visited the country 10 times since Russia’s full-scale invasion and was “with our people when it was most needed”.
“America and the world have lost a determined leader,” he added.
Graham initially clashed with the US president.
He told CNN in 2015 that Trump was “a race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot”, and during the 2016 campaign he posted on social media: “If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed… and we will deserve it.”
After the US Capitol riots in 2021, Graham gave a speech on the Senate floor in which he said: “Trump and I, we’ve had a hell of a journey. I hate it to end this way.
“All I can say is a count me out. Enough is enough.”
