Time for Ukraine to panic about Trump-Biden?
The first-ever nationwide poll conducted by The Counteroffensive, a collab with the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology. Plus, what a Trump or Biden administration would mean for Ukraine.
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With panic spreading about a potential second Trump term — not to mention his calls to hold military tribunals for his enemies— we’ve been looking at how the American election is likely to affect the war in Ukraine.
The Counteroffensive’s team was awake in the 3 a.m. hour to watch and cover the debates. Midway through the exchanges, Myroslava turned to me and, referring to my dual citizenship, said: “well, at least you are Canadian as well!”
There’s plenty of polling that shows who Americans prefer.
But we wanted to survey *Ukrainians* as part of our commitment to covering this country as more than just a chess piece between great powers — a place worth covering on its own merits.
So for the first time, and with the help of experts at the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology, we conducted a poll with more than 2,000 respondents across Ukraine to get a sense of who they prefer between Trump and Biden.
Here are the results:
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