President Joe Biden’s debate with former President Donald Trump was appointment viewing for diplomats and officials around the world, to their dismay.

“I woke up at 4 in the morning, Ukrainian time, specifically to watch because, you know, it’s not about elections only in the United States. It’s about [the] election of the most powerful person, on whom the fate of Ukraine also depends,” Ukraine’s foreign affairs chairman, Oleksandr Merezhko, told the Washington Examiner. “It was crushing.”