Ukrainians watching US elections almost as closely as Americans

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With elections less than a week away, many people in the US are glued to the news. So are many in Ukraine, as both candidates hold very different views on the war there. For Ukrainians, the next US president could be a matter of life and death. Emily Johnson reports from Kyiv.

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