Fresh poll: as many as 44% of Ukrainians say they trust U.S. president-elect Donald Trump, and it’s a record-high support rate in Europe.
Lasts year, only 10% said they trusted Trump.
Undoubtedly, this says a lot about Ukrainians being frustrated about the Biden admin policy and looking for a new opportunity with Trump.
64% oppose unconditional talks with Russia as a result of which Ukraine would not get any real security guarantees from the West. 30% believe Ukraine needs negotiations with Russia because it has no resources left for war of attrition.
53% consider it unacceptable to have any territorial concessions to Russia (against 76% in 2023). 48% would not accept dropping NATO membership aspirations, 50% would not accept never joining the EU at Russia’s demand.
71% oppose having Russian as Ukraine’s official language at the Kremlin's demand. 74.5% would not accept the reduction of armed forces as a “concession” to Russia.
31% consider nuclear weapons as Ukraine’s best security guarantee, 29% - gradual accession to NATO.
Only 11% believe in a military alliance with the U.S., 8.9% believe in UN peacekeepers. Only 6.4% believe European militaries would be effective in Ukraine.
70% support Ukraine joining NATO under the “West Germany model”, which is gradual accession.
Kyiv Oblast, not far away from Bucha.
We all heard this blast before the dawn this morning.
To me, this looks a bit strange - we sure had a powerful blast this morning in our district, but we interpreted it as air defense at work.
At the same time, we know there was an impact in the vicinity of the village of Buda Babynetska, with no casualties and a number of local households damaged.
Maybe that giant crater is a hole in which the military carry out ammunition disposal works? That's what we have on a daily basis in Kyiv Oblast.
Nothing but my speculation!
I'll try to go and see what's in there today.
So - here I am, at the scene.
It’s real.
It’s really an impact crater some 3.5 meters deep. It’s new, and journalists and locals are coming over to see it.
There was no ammo depot or something - nothing but a meadow in the woods at the village’s end.
People - I got contacts of this girl, she was among those who were in that house in Dnipro ruined by a Russian missile today.
She’s not a soldier — but what do you say if I suggest that we send a bit of our aid to her from you donations?
She has lost everything.
May I?
Just to give you guys an idea of how people in Ukraine adapt to the lack of electricity because of Russia’s missile terror.
It’s all thanks to modern technology and a bit of imagination (and money, yeah).
For instance, I have a gas boiler in my apartment. If the power…
...is off, I have neither heating nor hot water. And I’m screwed. So I get myself a charging station, and if things are really bad, I can turn the boiler on for a couple of hours a day and sustain more or less acceptable air temperature at home.
And I can recharge the thing…
…wherever the power is on at the moment. Or if there’s total blackout, many business centers, or gas stations, or shopping malls, or companies have purchased and installed large power generators to ensure stable electricity access. There’s always a way to recharge…