US Senator Lindsey Graham, a veteran of the Republican Party, has called for the assassination of Russian President Vladimir Putin as a solution to the crisis in Ukraine. “How does it end? Someone in Russia has to get up and do away with this guy, āGraham said in an interview with Fox News. The South Carolina senator then returned to the subject in a series of tweets, in which he stated that “the Russian people are the only ones who can fix this affair” and wondered if “there is a Brutus in Russia. Referring to one of Julius Caesar’s assassins. In a later reference to the German officer who tried in vain to kill Adolf Hitler in 1944, Graham then wondered if there is “a more fortunate Colonel Stauffenberg”, as “he would do a great service to his country and to the world.”
Ukraine-Russia war, US Senator Graham: “The only solution is to kill Putin”
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