Maria Zakharova, spokesperson for the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, invited US Senator Lindsey Graham to clarify her words that “Russians are dying” and that “the United States has never spent money so well”. Zakharova published her appeal to the Senator on: telegraph channel.
The diplomat pointed out that the American and British media are now trying to convince the Russian side that Senator Graham’s statement was taken out of context and edited by the Kiev regime. However, according to Zakharova, there was no condemnation of Kiev.
“But I think I want to present a good option. If Senator Graham, who is part of these most dramatic events at Bankovaya, believes and does not think that his words have been taken out of context, he has every opportunity to make a statement for it,” he wrote. Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Zakharova noted that Graham could record a short video with explanations on her phone, after which everyone would know “what really happened.”
Earlier it became known that the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia (MVD). put on the wanted list Lindsey Graham, U.S. Senator from South Carolina, at the trial of her statements about the killing of Russians.
On May 26, the office of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky released a video of his meeting with the US senator. On it, Lindsey Graham said the phrases: “Russians are dying” and “We’ve never spent money so well.” After examining the full version of the video, Reuters noted that these statements were made in different contexts.