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The Reporter's Notepad: Social media posts, business announcements and even political discourse slow to a crawl, even as far away as Ukraine, as US voters head to the polls in an unusually divisive election.
Just The Facts: Germany announces another €200 million in aid to help Ukrainians face a cold winter, survey shows 70% of members of the Ukraine-based European Business Association plan to invest in Ukraine even with the war still ongoing, and the USAID Competitive Economy Program in Ukraine announces a job retraining program to help Ukraine cope with the labor crunch.
Here's What They Think: The New York Times says Ukrainian officials, including President Volodymyr Zelensky, are experimenting with ways to gain the support of Donald Trump if he wins the election, emphasising that defending Ukraine is in America’s economic interests since his country “is rich in natural resources, including critical metals worth trillions of U.S. dollars.”
Sober Second Thought: The percentage of Ukrainians who say they are willing to bear the burdens of war indefinitely in order to win dropped sharply over the past eight months, according to a survey by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS).
The Rebuilder's Social: The Ministry of Economy of Ukraine announced that exports in October rose 18.7% on year in October to $3.8 billion worth of goods, Ukrainian law firm Sayenko Kharenko said it served as legal counsel in Ukraine to the government of Canada for a 10-year concessional CAD 400 million loan to Ukraine, and the Ukrainian Agribusiness Club, announces the online discussion Nov 7 on the poultry trade between Ukraine and the EU.
