{"id":1004,"date":"2025-04-26T17:04:52","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T17:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/?p=1004"},"modified":"2025-04-28T11:26:35","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T11:26:35","slug":"graham-lauds-trump-for-honorable-and-just-efforts-to-end-war-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/26\/graham-lauds-trump-for-honorable-and-just-efforts-to-end-war-in-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Graham lauds Trump for ‘honorable and just’ efforts to end war in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) took to social media on Saturday to laud the Trump administration’s efforts to broker a ceasefire<\/a> between Russia and Ukraine, more than three years after the war began.<\/p>\n

“I very much appreciate [Trump] and his team working diligently to end the war in Ukraine \u2014 that was created by [Russian President Vladimir] Putin\u2019s barbaric invasion \u2014 in an honorable and just way,” Graham wrote in a post on social platform X, while referring to a recent threat<\/a> of additional sanctions<\/a> on Moscow from lawmakers and the White House.<\/p>\n

“As to additional sanctions on Putin\u2019s Russia, I have bipartisan legislation with almost 60 cosponsors that would put secondary tariffs on any country that purchases Russian oil, gas, uranium or other products,” he wrote, adding, “The Senate stands ready to move in this direction and will do so overwhelmingly if Russia does not embrace an honorable, just and enduring peace.”<\/p>\n

His comments come just hours after Trump met with <\/a>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Vatican City, before the two leaders attended Pope Francis’s funeral<\/a>. The exchange, their first face-to-face interaction since a fiery meeting<\/a> at the White House earlier this year, came as the Trump administration has upped pressure<\/a> on Zelensky to sign a pending mineral deal.<\/p>\n

Trump has in recent days expressed frustration<\/a> with both Putin and Zelensky as peace talks <\/a>between the Eastern European nations have been slow-moving. <\/p>\n

Russia launched deadly strikes<\/a> in Ukraine on Thursday, after Trump lavished criticism<\/a> on the Ukrainian leader for saying he would never recognize Russia’s occupation of Crimea<\/a>. Following the drone attack in Kyiv \u2014 which killed at least eight people \u2014 the president turned his ire<\/a> on Putin. <\/p>\n

\u201cI am not happy with the Russian strikes on KYIV,\u201d Trump posted\u00a0on Truth Social<\/a>. \u201cNot necessary, and very bad timing. Vladimir, STOP! 5000 soldiers a week are dying. Lets get the Peace Deal DONE!\u201d<\/p>\n

On Saturday, he acknowledged<\/a> the Russian leader may be trying to swindle him \u2014 a stark contrast from what he said<\/a> nearly a week ago. <\/p>\n

Graham, who shared a screenshot of Trump’s post, has been a vocal supporter<\/a> of ongoing aid to Ukraine \u2014 a somewhat rare voice in the GOP. <\/p>\n

\u201cIf we pull the plug on Ukraine, it\u2019d be worse than Afghanistan. I don\u2019t think\u00a0President Trump<\/a> has any desire to do that,\u201d he said last month, after the Oval Office spat<\/a> led to Zelensky’s abrupt departure<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\u201cBut until we have a ceasefire, I would give Ukraine what they need in terms of intelligence and weapons to themselves,” he added at the time.<\/p>\n

The White House initially froze aid<\/a> to Ukraine following the disagreement, but it was later restored<\/a>. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Vice President Vance have also recently threatened to pull<\/a> the U.S. from the negotiating table<\/a> if a deal isn’t reached soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) took to social media on Saturday to laud the Trump administration’s efforts to broker a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine, more than three years after the war began. “I very much appreciate [Trump] and his team working diligently to end the war in Ukraine \u2014 that was created by [Russian President Vladimir] Putin\u2019s barbaric invasion \u2014 in an honorable and just way,” Graham wrote in a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1006,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1005,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004\/revisions\/1005"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}