A day before his death, Graham was in Ukraine, announcing a breakthrough

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Source Sen. Lindsey Graham stood in front of captured Russian military equipment in Kyiv on Friday and announced a breakthrough. After more than a year of excruciating negotiations with the White House, the South Carolina Republican had reached an agreement to advance a bipartisan bill that would clamp down on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s wartime economy. “We have the best chance since I’ve been coming here in the last five years to get Putin to the peace table,” Graham said at a news conference. Graham’s death this weekend, after what a preliminary medical report said was an “aortic dissection,” has cast uncertainty over the moment of triumph for Ukraine and its allies in Congress. In the Senate, Kyiv has lost a chief Republican backer who served as an envoy to President Donald Trump. “I can’t imagine who can take his place,” Oleksandr Merezhko, head of the foreign relations...