This information may surprise many readers and observers of the conflict in the East. fresh public opinion polls conducted by Gradus have clearly indicated that moods in Ukraine have... improved. As many as 44% of Ukrainians think that matters in their country are going in the right direction, and this is the best consequence in many months. 36% of the respondents disagree.
The survey was already conducted after Friday's fight at the White House, and before Donald Trump's decision to suspend military assistance to Ukraine. We do not have any fresher data, but a glance at Ukrainian media and streets allows us to presume that nothing has changed in this substance since yesterday (or nothing).
The quoted poll besides shows that 46% of Ukrainians are convinced of the anticipation of continuing to wage war without the aid of the US. More than a 3rd of the surveyed (36%) do not consider this option realistic. The general conclusion from investigation is that the actions of the American president helped Volodymyr Zelensk rebuild his political capital and consolidate society. Sociologists and social psychologists talk about the phenomenon of gathering around the flag. External forces, seen as hostile, have a mobilising power and this is precisely the kind of mobilization we have been seeing for respective days in Ukraine.
Politically speaking, these are gestures of the most crucial players. specified as Petro Poroshenko, who publically and unequivocally supported Zelenski. The erstwhile president has a hard time with the current one, and the most powerful criminal charges are frequently filed in their common violations. Now they're on the set. besides for Julia Tymoshenko, the erstwhile prime minister and leader of the parliamentary opposition, unity is the most important. The declaration of continuation with the Ukrainian head of state was besides made by General Walery Załużny, a erstwhile commander of the Ukrainian army, seen as the number 1 counter-candidate of Zelenski, erstwhile the presidential elections were already held.
Ukrainian soldier from 117 Mechanized Brigade, February 2025
Not little crucial in their mass are the gestures of insignificant army commanders and public figures, and above all many expressions of solidarity of average people. “It may not be as it was in 2022, but it can be felt that we Ukrainians are together again, and the symbol of this union is the President,” writes a fellow writer from Kiev.
Another resident of the capital, a Pole of origin, adds: “Emotionally it was worse in 2014 and at the first moments of a full-scale invasion erstwhile all Friday ended with the fear that the Russians would be in Kiev on Monday. Now there's no panic or insignificant mood. But there are queues before the wars. 50 percent of what was in February 2022 – so rather big. And I see them all day.”
“If Zelensk succeeds in impeaching Trump, no next U.S. president dares to call him “an average successful comedian”, the jokes of this kind fill the Ukrainian Internet. Half a joke, half a serious talk is about the request to get closer to the Chinese if America truly “shoots a fudge”.
Good face for the bad game? Let us not forget that Ukrainians have had the experience of being abandoned by the United States. This occurred in the late 1920s–2024s, for almost half a year. As a consequence of the halting of American aid, among others, the Ukrainian Army's ammunition crisis, which had to have and had to translate into political and diplomatic activities of Kiev. This 1 paid more attention to Europe – France and Germany, but besides to the Czech Republic, whose initiative ended Ukrainian military ammunition famine. The return of the States to the support country in the spring of 2024 was welcomed over the Dnieprem with cautious optimism. With the conviction that America is simply a whimsical lady, it is better to play many allied pianos. The music from this American makes the most impression, but if it is missing, there are also instruments. They gotta be, after all, a life game, not a want concert.
The belief that Europe will aid is very strong in Ukraine today. But that doesn't mean they're preparing for a long war over the Dniepre without support from across the ocean. On Tuesday evening, president Zelenski announced that he was willing to act “under strong leadership” of the president of the United States and asked him to support the implementation of the “first phase of the end of the war”. It would consist of the following actions: the release of prisoners of war and the truce in the air and at sea if Russia did the same. The exchange of prisoners is alternatively a symbolic gesture, but the another declarations are concrete. Ukrainians have been attacking Russian refineries for respective weeks now, putting Moscow before the large crisis of the most crucial sector of the economy. And many months ago they chased the Russian fleet from Crimea, which is for the Kremlin and personally Vladimir Putin's painful cheek. The cessation of Ukrainian air and maritime attacks would bring a clear relief to Russia. Trump would have his proof of good Ukrainian intentions, and yet there is inactive Kiev's readiness to sign a mineral agreement with Washington. It's a truly solid offer...
