There was talk of a “territory change” that benefits both sides, but it is not clear how this can meet President Zelensky’s claims
It is almost on the other side of the world, where the two largest enemies in modern history separate for just a few kilometers – on Diomedes islands are only four – that what will happen to a third state.
Fearful of Donald Trump’s Russian roulette, Volodymyr Zelensky has already warned: the match condition pointed out by Vladimir Putin is unacceptable.
The president of Russia goes to Alaska without moving an inch of what she has required since 2022 – and probably wants even before that. And that makes the Ukrainian homologous nervous, since the man who sends the White House was not clear about what Kremlin intends.
Without delays, Zelensky totally rejected Trump’s suggestion, who aired the possibility of negotiations involving. The president of guaranteed that neither he nor his people will “give up his land to the invader.”
It’s just that the exchange that Trump spoke is not quite that, as Ukraine has stopped occupying the small portion of territory she had for large months in the Russian region of Kursk. Looking at this, any exchange will always imply a massive loss of territory to Kiev.
“The answer to the Ukrainian territorial question is already in the constitution of Ukraine. No one should deviate from it – and no one can do so,” Zelensky said just a few minutes after learning of the meeting scheduled for August 15.
A “highly anticipated” meeting, as Trump described in his social truth, a social network that returned to make diplomacy to the highest level. And it was also there that the US President said that Russia is not willing to give up what it has achieved.
We talk about Donbass – which comprises the regions of Lugansk and Donetsk – but also from Zaporizehzia and Kherson, four oblasts that Russia attached unilaterally after a referendum in 2022.
And such assignments that Trump speaks and Putin wants to even be the same. Without being totally clear, Kremlin has said several times that he wants to control the integrality of these four regions, including the vast territory they do not occupy, especially in Zaporizehzia and Kherson.
“It’s very complicated. We’ll have something back, we’ll have something changed. There will be some exchange of territories, to please both,” Trump said later at the White House.
Speaking to the Ukrainian guardians reported that the Russian proposal includes a freezing of the front line, but also the removal of Ukraine from the zones that still controls in Donetsk and Lugansk. In short, the total concession of the two regions whose war has existed since 2014, at the time still only with militias and the Wagner group representing Moscow’s interests.
And we don’t even talk about Crimea, a peninsula attached that same year, and Trump always seemed to be lost to Russia and totally out of agreement, even though Zelensky has said several times that only with this region will be completely complete.
As for such exchanges, Kiev understands that they can refer to the regions of Zaporizehzia and Kherson, yes, but also from Sumy and Kharkiv.
“Ukraine is ready for real decisions that can bring peace. Any decisions against us, any decisions without Ukraine, are simultaneously decisions against peace,” added Zelensky.
And what Ukraine wants is a “lasting peace” in the words of the Minister of Foreign Affairs. Andrii Sybiha wants a guarantee that this same peace will not be “destroyed by Moscow’s next step.”
That’s why a ceasefire doesn’t arrive.
For fear of what the ambitions of Russia may be, the leaders of the Baltic States have already criticized the possibility of Ukraine to be forced to give up territory.
“If borders can be forcibly changed, no one is safe … Sovereignty and territorial integrity are the foundations of global stability. We will not reward aggression – neither in Ukraine nor anywhere,” said Foreign Minister of Estonia, Margus Tsahkna, already Saturday.
Lithuania homologous Baiba Braže reinforced this concern: “A just, lasting and dignified peace is what we all want, especially Ukrainians. Such peace must involve Ukraine and ensure their sovereignty and territorial integrity.”
Easy statements to understand, as small countries, ancient republics of the Soviet Union, fear that it follows if Russia can conquer Ukraine.
The difference, of course, is that these two states, such as Latvia, are part of the NATO, which would bring war to another level. To a global level.
