August 26, 2018 (KyivPost) Ukrainian politicians and activists
are mourning the death of United States Senator and presidential candidate John
McCain, who died on Aug. 25 at age 81. McCain died in Arizona surrounded by his
family. He was diagnosed with a brain tumor in July 2017 and had been
undergoing medical treatment, which he stopped on Aug. 24.
During his political
career, McCain repeatedly visited Ukraine and consistently argued that
Ukraine’s political and social future lay in Europe. The senator became famous
in December 2013 for visiting the then-incipient EuroMaidan Revolution, touring
protest camps arranged on Kyiv’s central square. “Ukraine will make Europe
better and Europe will make Ukraine better,” McCain said during the visit to
thousands of EuroMaidan protesters gathered on Kyiv’s Independence Square.
The Kyiv Post interviewed McCain on that trip, along with U.S. Senator Christopher
Murphy. Two years later, McCain spent New Year’s Eve 2017 at a forward combat
outpost with Ukrainian troops in the village of Shyrokine, near the Azov sea
port city of Mariupol. McCain once again supported Ukrainians “in their fight
against Putin’s aggression.”
@SenJohnMcCain:
Spending NewYearsEve with brave Ukrainian Marines at a forward combat outpost -
we stand with them in their fight against Putin's aggression
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