Ukrainians rally around their president after Trump seeks to...

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

43% : Millions of displaced Ukrainians living abroad would struggle to participate - not to mention the hundreds of thousands Ukrainians living in Russian-occupied territories, whose ability to vote would be virtually impossible.
43% : (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky) United States Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth takes his seat during a meeting of the North Atlantic Council in defense ministers format at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025.
37% : After Trump called Zelenskyy a "dictator" - for legally postponing an election last year -- and as reports emerged of U.S. and Russian officials meeting in Saudi Arabia to discuss a possible ceasefire without input from Ukraine, even some of Zelenskyy´s harshest domestic critics have begun defending him.
36% : " On Wednesday, Trump echoed one of Putin´s frequent talking points, claiming Zelenskyy, whose term expired last year, must hold elections.
31% : The mood only became gloomier in recent days as Trump signaled his desire to rapidly bring the fighting to a close on terms that Zelenskyy and many in the West say are too favorable to Russia.
18% : After their initial shock at Trump´s false claims this week that Ukraine is led by a "dictator" who started the war with Russia, the Ukrainian people are rallying around a defiant President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who publicly criticized Trump for promoting Russian "disinformation.
17% : But Vice President JD Vance admonished Zelenskyy for publicly warning Trump about falling for Russian disinformation.

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