Following the tragic passing of Sen. Lindsey Graham, Congressional leaders and the White House worked together to advance S.5025 – the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia Act of 2026. Ninety-nine Senators agree that the bill needs to be fast-tracked and passed through the Senate this week.JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. One Senator, Raphael Warnock, a Democrat from Georgia, has put a hold on the bill, threatening to delay a vote until September or later. This is not good. You can’t get 99 Senators to agree on what time it is. This sort of unanimity is rarely seen and sorely needed in Congress. It is coming at the right time on the right topic. I worked for seven years on Capitol Hill. Time is not the friend of legislative coalitions. If this is delayed until September – September of an election year – you can be sure Senators will start peeling off. Sen. Warnock may have legitimate policy concerns on the bill, but 46 of his Democratic colleagues have looked past them to get relief to Ukraine. Warnock is putting the bill – and Ukrainian lives – at risk. Ukraine is at a crucial time in its fight against the Russian invader. Ukraine is winning by almost any metric. Putin has lost more than 1.4 million soldiers. Black smoke from Ukrainian drone and missile attacks is a regular feature on the Moscow skyline. He has spent by some measures a trillion dollars on the war and his economy is verging on collapse.