KLEBAN-BYK, Ukraine — Olena Semykina, the owner of a village shop in east Ukraine, voted for President Volodymyr Zelenskyy 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.
Zelenskyy 'deserves respect' KIIS polling suggested that least 70 percent of Ukrainians oppose holding any ballot with the war raging -- but there is still a clear appetite for change, said the institute's Executive Director Anton Grushetsky.'It is obvious that the request from ordinary Ukrainians is for more and more competent, decent people to hold the most important government positions,' he wrote in an analytical note alongside the poll findings.
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