I watched the Trump Putin summit with “curiosity” by the Ukrainians in Canada – my country

On Friday, US President Donald Trump is taking place with Russian President Vladimir Putin with cautious optimism before Ukrainian CanadiansWho hopes that Ukraine The interests and rights in the batch will be supported to end the war.

Canada is the home of the second largest Ukrainian diaspora in the world, which has grown greater after the country -fleeing country accepted Russia Wide -ranging.

While they do not trust Putin’s willingness to negotiate the ceasefire or abandon his regional ambitions, community leaders say they appreciate the role of Canada in ensuring that Ukraine has a seat on the table.

“We are watching this curiously,” said Ihur Michelsheen, CEO and CEO of the Canadian Canadian Conference.

“I think we will discover, is President Trump to be an ally of Russia, an ally of Ukraine, or a third option?”

Trump has reduced expectations that could come out of the top, He says on Thursday that he wants to “set the table” For a second meeting between him, Putin and Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelinski.

These comments came after European leaders, along with Prime Minister Mark Carney, stood in expressing “common principles, including decisions related to Ukrainian future by Ukrainian” at a virtual meeting on Wednesday, which included Zelinski and US Vice President JD Vance.

Trump briefed Zelinski, Carney and European leaders at the next summit with Putin in a call on Wednesday, and promised to inform them again in the wake of the meeting.

“We feel with Europe, with Canada, with Ukraine, a kind of speaking one voice to the American president, he listens,” said Michelsheen.

“We hope that this is what he takes at the meeting with the Russians, but you never know … What will Putin do in a room with Trump.”

Canada was one of the most vocal defenders in Ukraine since Russia was first invaded and semi -Crimea in 2014, especially after it began the full invasion of Russia in February 2022.

This support has continued since Carney became prime minister earlier this year.

Zelenskyy hosted at the G7 Summit this summer in Alberta, where Carney announced a new military aid package worth more than two billion dollars-it was withdrawn from the previously announced financing-in addition to the first segment of funds supported by the frozen Russian assets that will go towards rebuilding Ukraine after the war.

Carney confirmed in calls with Zelinski and British Prime Minister Kerr will pass This week, Canada, led by Trump, welcomes the search for an end to the war, but the sovereignty of Ukraine and regional integrity must be protected.

The support of Ukraine from the Canadians themselves came through human donations.

The Canada-Ukraine, which focuses on obtaining this aid to Ukraine and other humanitarian efforts, says it has sent more than 95 million dollars to the country since 2022.

Valery Costoyok, the group’s executive, said that there have been noticeable heights in support and donations so far this year – especially after Trump and Zellinski. A catastrophic meeting in the Oval Office in FebruaryBut also follow -up Trump’s threats to make Canada the 51st American state.

“It is parallel,” told Global News about the threats of Canada’s sovereignty.

“I think this experience allowed the Canadians to be linked slightly more with the problems that started in 2014 (for Ukraine).”

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Kostyuk said that CUF and other Canadian charitable institutions helped fill some gaps in human financing in Ukraine. Dismantling the USAID Agency (USAID) earlier this year.

The last CUF mission was an attempt to reunite the Ukrainian children who were forcibly removed by the Russian forces with their families-an issue that the Canadian government was the leading international efforts to resolve it.

More than 19,000 Ukrainian children were transferred to Russia, with many Russian families adopted or held in “summer camps”.

Researchers and defenders say that the goal is to erase the Ukrainian identity for children and prepare them for military recruitment when they become adults.

Former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau last year Russia was accused of association with the “genocide element”.

Costyuk said this Russian effort is a symbol of the need to stand by force against Putin in the negotiations.

Russia is currently controlling about five lands of Ukraine, Zellinski and the Europeans are concerned that the deal that Trump and Putin have placed can enhance these gains.

Trump acknowledged the possibility of “land exchange” under a future deal, but he also promised to restore some lands to Ukraine.

Michelsheen said that the focus of itself and the Ukrainian society is to ensure that the possibility of abandoning the occupied lands does not become a reality.

He said: “Keeping the truth to the fact that regional integrity and decision-making operations in Ukraine are their own, and not to give up another person or negotiate-that there are major lines that must be adhered to-this is what we see is the primary role of European and Canadian leadership at this stage.”

Zelinski criticized any talk about Ukraine, who gave up any region of Russia, noting that the regional borders in Ukraine have been dedicated to its constitution and will require a referendum.

Trump said on Monday he “disturbed a bit.”

Costyuk said there are historical similarities of what could come out of the American Russia summit on Friday.

He said, referring to the 1938 Munich Agreement, which waived Sodinland from Czechoslovakia to Germany.

Historians have criticized this deal to find the theater for more Hitler’s incursions into Europe, and in the end World War II.

“The feelings from within the (Ukrainian Canadian) society were consistent: that the comfort of the aggressor at the expense of the victim, which is Ukraine, will not bring sustainable and fair peace.”

“Supporting justice was something that society calls.”

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