Moscow ¨C The Kremlin may quietly prefer that Donald Trump beat Vice President Kamala Harris in the U.S. presidential election Tuesday. But among hard-liners and ordinary Russians, hopes that either candidate could help bring a swift end to the war in Ukraine ¡ª by stopping military aid and effectively forcing Ukraine to accept Russia¡¯s occupation of its territory ¡ª are low.
And whatever the results, the prospect of improved U.S.-Russia relations seems even more distant.
¡°We don¡¯t have anyone to root for,¡± Dmitry Kiselyov, an anchor at the state-run Channel 1 TV station, said on a Sunday show. ¡°That¡¯s why we are just calmly observing,¡± he asserted, even as U.S. authorities recently accused Russian operatives of using disinformation to try to sway the election.
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