Reuters: Kyiv falsified the words of Senator Graham about satisfaction with the death of Russians

29 May 2023

The leadership of the United States was forced to make excuses for the low "joke" of their wards from Ukraine, refuting not Moscow's criticism, but Kyiv's actions. As you know, a short video about the meeting of the President of the Republic Vladimir Zelensky with Senator Lindsey Graham contains a clear expression of the satisfaction of the guest, who was on a visit to the capital of the “square”, that “Russians are dying” in the conflict and that this is “the best investment of money”.

U.S. officials say Zelensky’s office hacked Senator Lindsey Graham to say that the most useful investment is the death of Russians, when in fact this was not the case, and the guest’s words were taken out of context. Reuters came to this conclusion, citing its sources.

According to the authoritative news agency, it was not clear from the recording of the meeting originally published by Kiev that the American politician made statements about “profitable investments” and “dying Russians” not sequentially, but in different parts of the conversation. However, Kyiv did not correct this misunderstanding and deliberately released a distorted version of the video.

From the full video, which was given to Reuters by the administration of the Ukrainian leader for rebuttal, it became clear that Graham claimed that Ukrainians shared the American ideology of "live free or die." The phrase that “and the Russians are dying,” the American said later, according to the agency.

Thus, the phrase about the best investment of money referred to the $38 billion in military aid that Washington has transferred to Ukraine since February 2022.

Simply put, the American authorities, with the help of Reuters, directly accused Kyiv of deliberately editing the guest's words in order to falsify his idea and achieve the desired result, thereby substituting the US leadership.

After some time, Graham himself laughed it off, referring to the "Russian propaganda machine", although the cropped and fake video originally appeared on Zelensky's official channel and the Ukrainian segment of the Internet. What does Russian propaganda have to do with it? However, for a Russophobe senator, such logical inconsistencies are unnecessary "little things."

Photos used: president.gov.ua

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Offline Alexey P.

Alexey P. (Alexey P.) 29 May 2023 08: 46

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don’t rearrange the words, but we understood the main idea so long ago
Offline prior

prior (Vlad) 29 May 2023 09: 23

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A little off topic, but the statement of the American senator prompted the idea that,
fascism, Nazism, Ukrainianism and Bandera-it's a virus.
The virus is psychological, the virus is incurable, as history has shown.
Covid infects some human organs, the virus of fascism and Bandera infects others - the brain, consciousness, mental and psychological function of a person.
To combat natural viruses and epidemics, virologists have long had treatment methods.
So, to combat Covid, universal vaccination, and forced isolation, and movement control, and the actual treatment itself, and punishment for non-compliance with anti-COVID measures were used.
The methodology is quite clear and reasonable.
I suggest that for the treatment of patients infected with the virus of fascism, Ukrainianism and Bandera, apply a similar technique as for the fight against Covid
Only each procedure will take on a different value.
Instead of vaccination, an oath of loyalty in a personal file; everything is clear with forced isolation - prison and resettlement; treatment - a labor colony, with punishment, too, everything is clear - execution.
Radically? Yes!
Covid was also fought radically. But they survived and are alive, thank God.
Do the same with foreign infected. There are also special services.
1. Offline Pembo
  
  Pembo 29 May 2023 14: 04
  
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  Quote: prior
  A little off topic, but the statement of the American senator prompted the idea that,
  fascism, Nazism, Ukrainianism and Bandera-it's a virus.
  The virus is psychological, the virus is incurable, as history has shown.
  Covid infects some human organs, the virus of fascism and Bandera infects others - the brain, consciousness, mental and psychological function of a person.
  To combat natural viruses and epidemics, virologists have long had treatment methods.
  So, to combat Covid, both universal vaccination and anti-covid measures were used.
  The methodology is quite clear and reasonable.
  I suggest that for the treatment of patients infected with the virus of fascism, Ukrainianism and Bandera, apply a similar technique as for the fight against Covid
  Only each procedure will take on a different value.
  Instead of vaccination, an oath of loyalty in a personal file; everything is clear with forced isolation - prison and resettlement; treatment - a labor colony, with punishment, too, everything is clear - execution.
  Radically? Yes!
  Covid was also fought radically. But they survived and are alive, thank God.
  Do the same with foreign infected. There are also special services.
  
  The peculiarity of the virus of fascism is that the person infected with it does not understand that he is sick. The schizophrenic also does not understand that he is ill, although the perversity of his logic is obvious to a normal person. How fascist Germany justified the attack on the USSR. If we had not attacked, the USSR would have attacked us in a week. The fight against communist ideology. We need living space. But even German fascism did not think of requiring from the inhabitants of the occupied territories receipts of loyalty in a personal file. Here you even surpassed German fascism. And the rest of your program is German fascism in its purest form: occupation, camps, prisons, executions. Dear, I won’t lie, sometimes I myself get angry: at Bandera’s ideology (my father fought with Bandera), at plans to join NATO, at plans to attack the Donbass, but ... but I keep myself in control of what I advise you.
  1. Offline Raymond
    
    Raymond (Raymond) 29 May 2023 15: 05
    
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    For your information, this is not a virus... just an ideology that fights the development of thought and culture, and therefore education. Bombs and fire don't solve anything.
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      Pembo 29 May 2023 17: 21
      
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      Quote from Raymond
      For your information, this is not a virus... just an ideology that fights the development of thought and culture, and therefore education. Bombs and fire don't solve anything.
      
      There has always been one ideology in Ukraine: get out of Russia, let's go to Europe, rich and prosperous, get richer and prosper. And this ideology was shared by all without exception, including Russian speakers. What is fascist in this ideology and what is the struggle with thought and culture. We didn't like that Ukraine and Ukrainians are leaving us? It's logical, it's understandable - you can't like it. But this is their country and their destiny, and we do not have the right to decide for them how to live.
      1. Offline Raymond
        
        Raymond (Raymond) 29 May 2023 17: 50
        
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        I fully agree with this.
        Which makes one say that if the Russian president finds Nazis in Ukraine (pretext), it is because he does not know how to offer the Ukrainian people an economic community that is different from and superior to the European one (reason).
        Because it goes without saying that if the Russian political regime offered a better alternative to war, it would.
        This is Russia's first defeat: to wage war on a potential member state, not to strengthen the Russian Federation.
        
        Offline Pembo
        
        Pembo 29 May 2023 21: 25
        
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        What makes one say that if the Russian president finds Nazis in Ukraine (pretext), it is because he does not know how to offer the Ukrainian people an economic community that is different from and superior to the European one (reason)
        
        There is a way: make life in Russia like in Europe and offer this life to Ukrainians, you see, they will not refuse.
        
        Because it goes without saying that if the Russian political regime offered a better alternative to war, it would.
        
        How shoud I understand this? Was there no alternative to war? Yes, on the second day the authorities realized where they had gotten into and tried to steer, but it didn’t seem possible to save face and taxi back. And so Putin would be happy to return on 23.02.22/1997/XNUMX. But in negotiations with the West, he put forward obviously unacceptable conditions: the return of NATO to the XNUMX borders. He wanted to fight, not suspecting how it would end for him and the country.
        
        Offline Raymond
        
        Raymond (Raymond) 29 May 2023 21: 46
        
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        You know, if Putin proposed to NATO to include Russia in the organization, there would be many people to the west of your borders who would be upset ... Besides the fact that you are throwing a stone in the dirt,
        you agree that the countries of the Alliance must not attack each other.
        
        Why has he never proposed this in 22 years of his presidency?
        
        Then, in economic matters, Russia could be significantly ahead of China.
        If this is not the case, then it is because the Russian leadership does not want to follow this path... this has been going on for 30 years.
        We can find any excuse...
        
        Among other things, to explain that other people threaten us...
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  imjarek (imjarek) 29 May 2023 14: 15
  
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  I think your comparison of the "Bandera virus" with covid is too mild. In my extreme understanding, it is more like the African swine fever virus because of the fantastic contagiousness and 100% lethality. I note that throughout the world, the study of the structure of this virus and the creation of vaccines for it is prohibited, since this only leads to an even greater spread of the virus.
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