As final counting of the votes continued in the U.S. presidential election, by November 7 it had become clear that whether or not the incumbent, Donald Trump, accepted the result, the victor in the presidential election was Joe Biden.

While the U.S. and international media have focused on what his victory would mean for the U.S. and global politics generally, both in Kyiv and in the U.S. itself there was also immediate recognition that Mr. Trump’s replacement by Mr. Biden will have significant implications for East-West relations and Ukraine in particular (and in the present context, probably also Belarus).