title: Does Russian invasion affect trust abroad?
abstract: The Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 has led to one of the biggest shocks to Europe since the second world war. We provide evidence on the impact of the conflict on satisfaction with democracy as well as trust in politicians and parties in countries indirectly affected by conflict. Our identification strategy uses the fact that the timing of the Russian invasion overlapped with the interviews carried out in the latest wave of the European Social Survey in eight different European cou