Ukraine Mourns an Unlikely Champion

(Photo illustration by Bill Kuchman/The Bulwark | Photos: Getty)WHATEVER COMPLICATED FEELINGS Americans may have about Lindsey Graham, whose last ten years were marked by a morally compromised bargain with Donald Trump, there is no such ambivalence for Ukrainians or for pro-Ukraine Russian dissidents, who speak of the late South Carolina senator with unqualified admiration. “Lindsey Graham knew how to maneuver, but he also knew to take the right stand at the right time,” said Ukrainian TV journalist Olena Kurbanova on Monday. She spoke of her “personal sorrow” at Graham’s death, calling him “a close friend who championed our side” and noting that he had just made his latest visit to Kyiv—his tenth altogether.Kurbanova’s guest, expatriate Russian human rights lawyer and political activist M