The meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin in Alaska has unleashed an earthquake in the core of world diplomacy. The deliberate exclusion of the president Volodímir Zelenski of the negotiating table of his own peace clouding the hope of Ukraine to reach a Fair agreement that finally leads to the end of the guerra. He nervousness It is palpable to what that encounter without Ukraine can bring, in which Trump and Putin are expected to add a first draft of high fire agreement, understood as a kind of geopolitical feast for which both presidents are already relapsed.
Zelenski has felt cornered by the Russian-American block and the last days has tried to launch a diplomatic counteroffensive in extremis. Has called A. Europahis most faithful ally, as a sign of help. After an intense round of contacts with European leaders, the European Union partners have closed ranks, “unconditionally”, next to Ukraine. In a joint statement, Europe signs and confirms that they will continue to support Ukraine at all levels, with “diplomatic, financial and military” support. The objective: to press Russia to stop an illegal invasion that, among others, “violates international law and the United Nations Charter.” Europe considers that its own security. A solid and common posture that serves Zelenski from lifeguard, to what may be to come.
Workers from a kyiv cemetery bury a dead woman in a Russian attack in kyiv on July 31. / Danylo Antoniuk / AP
Russia struggled for days for practicing its usual enigmatic secrecy, but their intentions are clear: he will claim the Occupied territorieshaving a Trump, of nomad loyalty to the parties, such as mediator. Zelenski has been blunt: he will not give up his sovereign land. And, even less, it will reward the “Russian occupant for the invasion.” Thus begins a Distance pulse that maintains, for now, Ukraine and Russia in Tables.
Peace -made peace
On the street, the Ukrainians speak. They analyze. The summit sneaks into the daily talks. They make their bets, and they even design custom -made peace pacts, according to the requirements that each one would raise if a seat in the negotiation had reserved. The feeling is generalized: they do not see too many guarantees of success to achieve a fair and lasting harmony, and judge the political event of the year as a “show“, a mere propaganda transaction between the US and Russia. While ordering the showcase of her boutique, Dmytro reflects: “Putin is a great strategist. It just seeks to gain time to regroup and attack again. And Trump wants hang the peace medal. In the end, everything is facadea showcase, like this one that I have here, ”he says by retaining shoes that look at the avenue.
Oxana, a thirty waitress, snorts when asked, while serving some coffees in her kyiv garito. His speech, embedded in onomatopoeia, reflects the burning of a Ukraine that, after years of war, loses, little by little, hope: “Uf. My God. Hopefully this meeting serves something. But I don’t think so. Every year, I have the illusion that everything ends. But a new offensive always arrives. One for each station. Summer, autumn, winter, spring. And increasingly hard. “Oxana acknowledges that both she and all her acquaintances are” exhausted. “Above all, psychologically.” This is not enough. I have lost five friends. Dead. Because of this damn war, “reveals enraged. Even so, Oxana, maintains the discursive line of its president:”We cannot offer our land to the Russians. Because, then, we will legitimize future illegal annexations. They will never stop, “Zanja.
Wear and morality in the army
Konstantin is a soldier. Fight in the Kharkiv front since “too long.” Coexistence daily in battle with their classmates, palpating in the first person the symptomatology of the Army Ukrainian. “My conditions are the same as my president. We must not give territories, because, then, All deaths will have been in vain“It starts. However, it continues to be honest,” being realistic, the current state of our ranks must be taken into account. The moral state, I mean. There are hardly any rotations. And just anyone already willing to enlist. We will not be able to fight this war for much longer“. The mental and logistics wear Lastra and, therefore, Kostantin, much to her, Sopesa the option to give up a territorial percentage. With conditions: “We consider it, we will have to do it, but A non -aggression pact must be guaranteeda vigilant foreign commission, and military reinforcement to Ukraine with all types of weapons, especially anti -aircraft. “The ideal, ends, is that” Ukraine entered the Take“.
Exhibition of photographs of the front in kyiv, on August 9. / Sergey Dolzhenko / EFE
But, “it all started with this, so he would be willing not to enter NATO in exchange for peace,” Natacha classes, a Ukrainian who fled that fateful February 2022, moving away from his children Victor and victory of the war. It is based in Zaragoza, but Ukraine is still passed, present and future. He often talks with Victoria, now 16 years old, about the evolution of the conflict. In his neck, Victoria looks a pendant of the Ukraine silhouette, with the portions of Crimea and the Donbas On the map. “Young people are fully aware of our history. Even more. I was born in the Soviet Union. They already in independent Ukraine,” explains Natacha. His daughter Escrudiña Victoria the situation with the perspective perhaps somewhat more amplified that has been able to offer him these years in Spain. “The war already lasts 11 years, to say that there are three is a mistake,” says Victoria strong. “Putin is going to claim the occupied territories, he does not want to lose them,” he continues. She, like Natacha, is against, but knows that the pact “will focus on it” and that there may be no choice. Expectation is. Inside and outside Ukraine.
Temporary currency?
Despite not being an “beneficial” output for Ukraine -and scenario that would tear the international order and the principle of territorial integrity -Mariia, worker of a real estate company, begins to contemplate the Redefinition of the Ukrainian borders of 1991 Like one temporary exchange currency Towards peace: “I do not speak of something permanent, but to establish, for now, that border in the current lines of the front and that, little by little, diplomacy works for Ukraine to recover them.” It refers to the strategic regions of Crimea, annexed by Russia in 2014, and the areas of Donetsk y Lugansk (Donbas), Zaporiya y Jersónpartially already occupied by Moscow.
Within the heterogeneous, the “non -assignment” is the abecé of Ukrainian society. This is what Andreii defends, a local journalist who, from the beginning, has monitored the opinion progression of his fellow citizens. There are “marginal” beliefs that defend the territorial concession, but continues to detect an “overwhelming feeling” both in the big cities and in the small communities of the front: “Everything that implies the loss of territory is not considered peace, but an invitation to greater aggression“. From the first days of large -scale invasion, he adds,” the resilience Ukrainian persist“. Of course, he acknowledges,” there are satiety“. No one is able to withstand years of constant bombings, displacements and losses, without this leaving” a deep mark on our lives. “But that fatigue, he concludes,” will never result in a genuine disposition to deliver our territory and our identity. “
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