US Republican Senator Lindsey Graham has died following a brief and sudden illness.
His office has released a statement saying he died on Saturday evening.
Elected to the US Senate in 2002, the South Carolina politician was one of Washington’s most influential voices on defence and foreign policy and a key ally of US President Donald Trump.
He had just returned from Kyiv, where he met the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday.
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