The marginalized Ukrainians look that Trump and Putin are gathering of Alaska talks

Five thousand miles from Alaska, and the feeling that they were accused, the Ukrainians were preparing themselves on Friday for the results of the negotiations that were not invited to.

The talks will start between US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, later in the day without a seat for Ukrainian President Voludmir Zelinsky.

Trump indicated earlier this week that “land bodies” can be on the table – that was largely interpreted as means the surrender of the Ukrainian land to Russia.

In Ukraine, where opinion polls show that about 95 % of the population does not trust Putin, there is an unstable mix of deep doubts about talks and deep fatigue with war.

“This question touches me directly,” said Titiana Bisunova, 30, from Bokerrovsk – one of the eastern cities whose future is asking if it is delivered to Russia.

“My head is on the fire line. If the active fighting stops, will I be able to return?” She said.

Bissonova said the issues of negotiations, land bodies, and the re -drawing the border were very painful for those who grew up in the affected areas.

“This is the place where I was born and my country,” she said. “These decisions may mean that I cannot return home again. I am losing a lot of hope.”

French President Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday that Trump agreed On an invitation with European leaders that regional concessions will not be made without Ukraine’s approval. Trump said he intends to hold a second summit with the present of Zelensky, before agreeing to anything.

But Trump can be unexpected. It is often said that he prefers the views of the person who spoke to him recently. So there is no little faith in Ukraine that it will not be affected by Putin, especially in one meeting on one.

Olksander Merizko, Ukrainian deputy and head of the Parliamentary Committee of Parliament in Foreign Affairs, said the reality of the closed door meeting was bad for Ukraine. “Knowing Trump, he can change his opinion very quickly. There is a great danger to it for us.”

Merizko said he fears this is Trump’s desire to look at her as a deals, and he may have prior agreements with the Russians. The deputy said: “Trump does not want embarrassment, and if nothing is achieved, he will be embarrassing.” “The question is, what can be in these agreements?”

Various capabilities of the arrangements that could lead to a ceasefire have been suggested by freezing the current front lines – with no formal recognition of the seized lands of Cross – to a maximum position in Russia that includes four entire regions in the east and southern Ukraine.

Opinion polls indicate that about 54 % of Ukrainians support a form of land settlement in order to accelerate the end of the war, but only with security guarantees from international partners in Ukraine. Deep and spread is the lack of confidence in Russia, to the extent that many believe that an agreement to freeze the front lines without security guarantees will simply be an invitation to Russia to rest, re -arms, and remack.

“If we freeze the front lines and give up the regions, it will only serve as a platform for a new attack,” said Volodimir, the Ukrainian sniper that serves in the east of the country. According to the military protocol, he only asked to identify it with its first name.

“Many soldiers have sacrificed their lives to these areas, to protect our country,” said Volodimir. “Freezing will mean that the mitigation process begins, the wounded soldiers and exhaustion will be emptied, and the army will shrink, and during one of these courses, the Russians will strike again. But this time, it will be the end of our country.”

Anton Joshtsky, director of the Kiev International Sociology Institute, who regularly settle for the war, said.

He said that one of the most difficult decisions is whether he would accept the idea of giving actual control over some Ukrainian lands to Russia. “It is 20 % of our lands and this is our people. But the Ukrainians show us that they are flexible, and they tell us that they will accept different forms of security guarantees.”

According to the Institute’s poll, 75 % of the Ukrainians are fully opposed to granting the official Russia to any region. “There were some people who were supporters of Rosian, some of whom were so tired of war that they felt necessary.

“My belief is that the war must stop in any possible way,” said Loubov Nazareko, 70, a retired worker from the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine.

“The more it goes, the worse.” “The Russians have already occupied the region of Jacon and they want Odysse. All this should be stopped, so the youth do not die.”

Nazarenco has a son who has not yet fights but he can be called. She said that she believes that three years of war, with hundreds of thousands of dead and wounded on the Ukrainian side alone, said that preserving life all fears of the earth.

She said, “I don’t want people to die.” “Not young people, not the elderly, and not civilians who live on the front lines.”

On Friday, as the hour approached the start of the talks in Alaska, the Ukrainians were celebrating the Holy Day – the day of the blessed Virgin Mary. It is the day that it is believed to listen to the prayer of everyone who needs it.

In the Monastery of St. Michael, a church in the center of Kiev, the priest Olksander Bicrofnie was leading a prayer service for several people. After that, he said it was difficult to find words to describe the injustice of the upcoming conversations, but he called it “great injustice and madness” to leave Zelensky.

Like others, the priest admitted the dark reality facing Ukraine, he said – he was not in a position to restore his stolen lands by force. Therefore, some deal must be made. Bicrofnie said, but he should think less in terms of land, and more in terms of people.

“If we have to waive the lands – if the world allows this – the most important thing is that we collect all of our people. The world should help us out our people.”

On Friday, the priest did not refer directly to the talks in Alaska, “There are no names or places for meetings.”

But he prayed for the future power of Ukraine. “On the front lines, and in the diplomatic space.”