At a pizza and coffee joint in Kyiv named for the U.S. president, patrons are having second thoughts about its moniker after President Trump suspended military aid to Ukraine.
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You got to be more thankful. Because let me tell you, you don’t have the cards. With us, you have the cards. But without us you don’t have any cards. It was clear from Friday that we are in a very bad situation. Now we are moving to catastrophic situation. I understand that we have crisis in relationships right now after Friday’s meeting in Oval Office, but I just want to ask President Trump, just to reconsider, to give some time to Ukraine.
Reporting from Kyiv, Ukraine
At the Trump Pizza Station in Kyiv, where the internet password is “TrumpLovesYou,” one woman burst into tears when she learned that the United States was suspending military aid to Ukraine. Another sipped a cappuccino with banana milk and lamented that the whole world seemed to be abandoning her country.
Most people at the neighborhood pizza and coffee joint on Tuesday morning agreed that it was time for the Trump Pizza Station to change its name, citing the losses they had suffered in three years of war.
Then she stopped.
“Honestly, I don’t even think I have enough fingers to count everyone I know who has died,” she said. “I think this is all very sad for us, for Ukrainians. It only means one thing — that even more Ukrainians may die.”
In recent weeks, every day feels like a fresh punch in the gut to Ukraine, whose cities have been under assault by Russian forces since the full-scale invasion of February 2022.
Under Joseph R. Biden Jr., the United States was Ukraine’s biggest ally. But since President Trump took power in January, the United States has done an about-face on its foreign policy, making good relations with Russia a priority over those with Ukraine.
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