Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. this week reiterated his objection to U.S. involvement in the Russia–Ukraine war, criticizing American defense contractors who met with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Washington.

“I was surprised that they did it so openly," Mr. Kennedy told The Epoch Times after a Dec. 13 voter rally in Kansas City. "The optics of it are very, very bad. The grift is right in our faces. No one bothers to conceal who the real stakeholders are in the Ukraine war.”

During the rally, Mr. Kennedy told supporters that the conflict is “a proxy war between the U.S. and Russia” and U.S. funding of Ukraine is a “money-laundering scheme” that takes wealth out of taxpayer pockets and puts it “into the coffers” of companies like Boeing, Raytheon, and Lockheed-Martin.

Since announcing his candidacy in April to challenge President Biden, the Democrat-turned-Independent candidate has called for peace negotiations to end the war in Ukraine and has repeatedly chastised the Biden administration for continuing to fund Ukraine.

He says he's sympathetic to the Ukrainian cause and that Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded the country illegally, but he has chastised the United States for its role in the conflict.

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