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Anna Betts in New York

New York City’s Ukrainian community ‘disappointed’ after Trump’s ‘betrayal’

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Members of the Ukrainian community in New York City, like Dora Chomiak and Victor Kurylyk, feel that, despite mounting odds, that Ukraine must never give up. Photograph: Julius Constantine Motal/The Guardian

Members of New York’s large Ukrainian community expressed a mix of disillusionment, betrayal, defiance and acute uncertainty about what the future holds for Ukraine after tensions escalated this week between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Geopolitical events in the last week have shocked Ukrainians at home and overseas as well as US lawmakers and allies, as the US president appeared to heavily favor the Russian president Vladimir Putin to dictate peace terms on the eve of the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

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