Senior Senator Lindsey Graham on Thursday called for “somebody in Russia”to assassinate President Vladimir Putin.
Speaking during a televised interview on Thursday evening, Graham said,“How does this end? Somebody in Russia has to step up to the plate… andtake this guy out.”
The senator was talking to conservative Fox News TV host Sean Hannity.
He repeated the call later in a series of tweets, saying “the only peoplewho can fix this are the Russian people.”
“Is there a Brutus in Russia?” asked the senator, referring to one of Romanruler Julius Caesar’s assassins.
The former presidential candidate also wondered if “a more successfulColonel Stauffenberg” existed in the Russian military, alluding to theGerman officer whose bomb failed to kill Adolf Hitler in 1944.
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“You would be doing your country — and the world — a great service,” headded.
The senator, who has served in Congress for over twenty years and has attimes been a close ally to former president Donald Trump, had earlier inthe day introduced a resolution condemning the Russian president and hismilitary commanders for committing “war crimes” and “crimes againsthumanity”.
Ukraine says at least 350 civilians have been killed since Putin launchedthe invasion last week, and over 1 million have fled the country.
Moscow claims it does not target civilian areas, despite widespreadevidence to the contrary.
