At Ukraine’s Trump-Themed Cafe, Patrons Demand a Name Change

At the Trump Pizza Station in Kyiv, where the internet password is “TrumpLovesYou,” one woman burst into tears when she learned that the United States was suspending military aid to Ukraine. Another sipped a cappuccino with banana milk and lamented that the whole world seemed to be abandoning her country.

Most people at the neighborhood pizza and coffee joint on Tuesday morning agreed that it was time for the Trump Pizza Station to change its name, citing the losses they had suffered in three years of war.

Anastasiia Berehovenko, 24, who is studying to be an obstetrician-gynecologist, stood in line for a bottle of water and counted off the people she knew who had been killed by the Russians on her fingers: Her brother, a childhood friend, her neighbors.

Then she stopped.

“Honestly, I don’t even think I have enough fingers to count everyone I know who has died,” she said. “I think this is all very sad for us, for Ukrainians. It only means one thing — that even more Ukrainians may die.”

In recent weeks, every day feels like a fresh punch in the gut to Ukraine, whose cities have been under assault by Russian forces since the full-scale invasion of February 2022.

Under Joseph R. Biden Jr., the United States was Ukraine’s biggest ally. But since President Trump took power in January, the United States has done an about-face on its foreign policy, making good relations with Russia a priority over those with Ukraine.