“We’ll have to live in Trump’s world now.”
Ukrainians reacted with a mix of trepidation and grim resolve to the news that Donald Trump will likely be reelected U.S. president after he vowed to “stop wars” in a victorious speech Wednesday morning.
After almost three years of war, officials in Kyiv acknowledged that Ukraine would now likely have to look to its allies elsewhere in the West for support as it seeks to fend off a renewed Russian offensive, backed up by thousands of North Korean troops. Trump has repeatedly claimed he would end the war in Ukraine in one day and vowed to stop aid to Kyiv. The U.S. is Ukraine’s top backer when it comes to funding.
In a pragmatic statement on social media Wednesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy recalled his “great meeting” with Trump in September and praised the Republican’s “commitment to the ‘peace through strength’ approach in global affairs.”
But in a telling line, he added: “We rely on continued strong bipartisan support for Ukraine in the United States.”
Tymofiy Mylovanov, president of the Kyiv School of Economics, said in a Facebook post: “We’ll have to live in Trump’s world now. I am very skeptical that the war will end in 24 hours, as he promised. But we definitely won’t get bored.”
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