Some of the largest pockets of the more than 1 million Ukrainian Americans in the United States live in swing districts and battleground states, raising the potential political consequences for President Donald Trump’s latest tiff with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky just two weeks out from the Nov. 3 midterm elections.
Trump has eased Russian sanctions in an effort to bring down high domestic fuel prices that are jeopardizing Republicans at the polls, and criticized Zelensky for war tactics while simultaneously denying that he limited U.S. intelligence sharing and Ukraine’s access to key satellite communications service Starshield that it uses against missile attacks.
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