POLL: PRESIDENT'S RATING FALLS FROM 90% TO 55%
Olena Semykina, the owner of a village shop in east Ukraine, voted for President Volodymyr Zelensky five-and-a-half years ago, hoping the fresh-faced political newcomer would end the fighting unleashed by Russian proxy forces in 2014.
The screech of an artillery shell over her leafy village in the war-battered Donetsk region and the plumes of dark smoke billowing on the horizon suggested that her hopes for his first term had fallen short.
"We expected the war to end, like he promised. But the war hasn't ended. There's even more fighting," the 43-year-old said in the village of Kleban-Byk, where invading Russian forces are fast approaching.
This story is from the August 31, 2024 edition of The Citizen.
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