“I think most Americans would like to help Ukraine.
But the idea of giving and not getting back should be taken off the agenda,” RIA Novosti quotes him as saying.
According to him, former US President Donald Trump previously offered to help the Kyiv authorities with loans “as they did with Britain during World War II.”
Graham also said the United States needs to think about American citizens, not allies, given the country's $34 trillion national debt.
“They, in Ukraine, have tons of minerals,” the senator added.
On February 20, Senator Graham was included in the Rosfinmonitoring list of individuals for whom there is information about involvement in extremism and terrorism.