Senator Lindsey Graham, RS.C., warned on Sunday of potentially disastrous consequences for Ukraine if the Trump administration does not restart military aid and the exchange of intelligence with the nation of Eastern Europe.
“While the fight is happening, if we plug at Ukraine, it would be worse than Afghanistan,” Graham said during an “Fox News Sunday” interview.
“Until we were high, the fire would give Ukraine what they need in terms of intelligence and weapons to defend themselves,” Graham added. “In terms of Russia, I will present sanctions to its banking sector and their energy sector next week, urging them to get to the table. If fire and peace conversations do not participate in high, we must punish them. “
His comments occur a few days after the Trump administration stopped military aid and the exchange of intelligence with Ukraine, which only marked the three -year anniversary of Russia’s invasion on the eastern border of Ukraine.
The United States help for Ukraine reached an abrupt pause last week after the tensions between President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy passed through a meeting of the Oval office that became a shout match. In the consequences of that meeting, Russia has launched an increase in attacks against Ukraine.
Zelenskyy had been visiting the White House to sign an agreement that would have granted the United States ownership of certain minerals in Ukraine. But Zelenskyy left the White House without an agreement after the Ukrainian President insisted on security guarantees and Trump and Vance accused him of not being grateful enough for the continuous support of the United States.
“We are trying to integrate our economies. We are trying to ensure that Ukraine has value for the US economy, a situation of winning, ”said Graham, who had previously asked Zelenskyy to resign after the Oval office meeting.
American and Ukrainian officials are preparing to meet in Saudi Arabia this week to work towards a possible mineral agreement and a high fire agreement with Russia. But Trump has pointed out to his domestic allies that he wants more than the Ukraine Minerals Agreement in exchange for restarting help and exchange of intelligence.
When asked about the Minerals Agreement in Ukraine during a separate interview in “Sunday Morning Futures” of Fox News, Trump told Maria Bartiromo: “I think so. I think it will happen.”
Trump also responded to the criticism that he has not been hard with Russia, telling Bartyrome: “I have been very difficult for Russia, more difficult than anyone who has been in Russia, if you think about it.”
In the weeks before the Oval Office meeting with Zelenskyy, Trump and the Ukrainian President exchanged the spikes from the distance, with the president of the United States at one time by calling Zelenskyy a “dictator” and implying that Ukraine was responsible for starting the war, not Russia.
