Editor’s Note: This Kyiv Post interview with U.S. Sen. John McCain, who died on Aug. 25, 2018, was published on Dec. 16, 2013, amid the EuroMaidan Revolution that ultimately drove Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych from power on Feb. 22, 2014. McCain, a leading foreign policy expert in the Republican Party, and Chris Murphy, a Democrat who sits on the Senate’s Europe subcommittee, were in Kyiv to deliver messages of support to EuroMaidan demonstrators as well as other messages to Ukraine’s opposition, oligarchs and top officials, including Yanukovych.

The senators gave a joint interview to the Kyiv Post on Dec. 15.Murphy leads an effort in the U.S. Senate to approve a new resolution, which calls for “targeted sanctions, including visa bans and asset freezes, against individuals responsible for ordering and carrying out violence” against peaceful protesters in Ukraine, now in their fourth week.