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... Donald Trump's claim that Zelenskyy has a 4% approval rating appears to have been conjured from thin air: the only suggestion of any source for that figure comes from Russian media outlets citing a "poll" conducted by Zelenskyy critic Oleksandr Dubinsky among his (deeply unrepresentative) Telegram followers.
Wherever he plucked it from, the number doesn't align at all with the credible available evidence. Zelenskyy himself suggested yesterday that the 4% figure was "disinformation, we understand it's coming from Russia".
It is true that Zelenskyy's ratings are a bit lower than they were at the very peak of his popularity, in the early months of the war, when some polls put him at 90% (against a low of 25% prewar).
But that would be entirely unsurprising to anyone who has tracked the popularity of leaders in periods of crisis in the past, and is consistent with, for example, George W Bush after 9/11, who went on to win a second term.
The most recent available poll shows Zelenskyy at 57% --" still an extremely high approval rating when set against his peers across Europe, and certainly higher than Trump's.
"Very few leaders have as much support as Zelenskyy," Lutsevych said. "There is no sign of that support collapsing. It seemed pretty clear at his press conference yesterday that he was confident about this, and confident that he has the support of the public and the parliament." ...
[emphasis mine]