2025-03-05
11 分钟Hi, I'm Kim Barker and I'm a reporter for the New York Times covering the war in Ukraine.
I'm currently based in London.
The news coming out of D.C. has not been great for Ukraine for a few weeks.
People here have been very freaked out
as they hear President Donald Trump calling Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky a dictator
and saying
that the war with Russia is somehow Ukraine's fault.
And then on Tuesday morning,
Ukrainians woke up to the news that the US Was temporarily suspending military aid to their country.
I knew exactly where I needed to go to get reactions to that news.
It's a place called the Trump Pizza Station in Kyiv.
It's one of actually two cafes here that are named for Trump
because he's historically been very popular here.
Many Ukrainians see Trump as a strong leader and admire his business skills.
Trump Pizza Station is this very clean looking cafe.
It's got white walls, pink neon lights, and serves pizzas like the Trumpino,
which I quite like, with artichoke hearts and mushrooms and prosciutto.
You hear American music like ZZ Top playing from the speakers and the menu has English lettering.
It's really, I would say,
a symbol of how this country has turned toward the US and the west over the past decade.