Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, a close ally of President Donald Trump and a prominent voice for U.S. military support to Ukraine, died Saturday evening at age 71 after a short illness. He had just returned from Kyiv, where he met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday. Zelensky expressed deep sadness over the loss, noting that Graham had traveled to Ukraine ten times since Russia’s full-scale invasion began and had stood alongside the country during its most critical moments. The senator was working on a new Russia sanctions bill intended to provide Trump with tools to end the conflict.