While in Spain, Portugal and France spend a very complicated summer in the fight against fires, far from there, more than 13,000 kilometers, in a much colder place, in Anchorage (Alaska), you live this Friday The first summit in six years between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin.
The president of the United States, who returned to the White House promising that he would end the war in Ukraine in just 24 hours- something that, as is evident, has not fulfilled-, the faces will be seen for the first time with his Russian counterpart. They will do it with a central theme on the table, the war in Ukraine.
But the doubts about what can leave the meeting between Trump and Putin join kyiv’s discomfort for not having Volodimir Zelenski to make decisions that involve Ukraine, – that the American president raised a few days ago.
A summit on Ukraine, without Ukraine
Many are the questions about whether the summit among the leaders of two of the great world powers will end a solution to the conflict. But first, what is clear is that it will not have Ukraine.
kyiv’s criticisms and discomfort for the absence of Zelenski in Anchorage have overturned a good part of European leaders. Many of them met with the Ukrainian leader on Wednesday to demand both the United States and Russia that “nothing without Ukraine” can be decided.
Donald Trump has already advanced the same day that his encounter with Putin was announced that from the White House they were contemplating “(between Russia and Ukraine).” “It is complicated, but we are going to recover part and we will exchange another. There will be an exchange of territories for the convenience of the two,” he explained, with the aim of seeking lasting peace.
But the proposal of the American president did not convince kyiv anything. . In a statement, he said that “the answer to the Ukrainian territorial issue is already in the Constitution of Ukraine.”
“We will not reward Russia for what has perpetrated. The Ukrainian people deserve peace. But all partners must understand what a dignified peace is. We are willing to collaborate with President Trump and all our partners to achieve real peace and, above all, lasting. A peace that does not collapse for Moscow’s wishes, “said the Ukrainian leader.
Appearance together
What is known in detail, as explained by a Kremlin advisor, Yuri Ushakov, is that everything is prepared for Putin and Trump to appear together after the match in Anchorage.
The meeting will take place at 11:30 am, local time (9:30 p.m. in Spain) and will be a face to face between both leaders. After that, both delegations will be incorporated. The advisor stressed that “The central theme“It will be Ukraine and others can also be addressed”problems“Currently.
On Wednesday, Trump attended the telematics meeting as with the Ukrainian President and the European allies. The US president met the five -point plan with the demands of Ukraine and Europe to try to put a peace agreement on the table. After her, the Republican leader justified that the appointment with Putin will serve “see where we are and what we are doing“And that if he did not get the answers he wanted” there will be no second. “
Oleksandr Kraiev, Professor of International Relations at the Mohyla Academy of kyiv and Chief Analyst for North America of the Ideas Laboratory Ukrainian Prismexplained to EFE That most of the Ukrainians do not believe that it will be crucial for the future of their country.
“Any agreement requires much more preparation than recent visits from Trump’s envoy, Steve Witkoff, Moscow, than They failed to find any point in common between Ukraine, Russia or Washington“The expert said.
“These things are not done lightly”
The European response to Trump’s approach to a hypothetical transfer of territory has been similar to that of kyiv. European leaders demanded Washington on Wednesday to raise fire as a starting point.
After the summit prior to the appointment between the American leader and Putin, the German Foreign Minister, Friedrich Merz, said that “no decision can be made“Without taking into account Ukraine.
“Ukraine is ready to negotiate territorial issues. However, the contact line must be the starting point and legal recognition of Russian occupation is out of any matter. The principle that borders should not be changed by force is still valid“He explained.
Oleksandr Merezhko, president of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the Ukrainian Parliament, has spoken with EFE And he has justified that “Putin is not interested in a high fire or the survival of Ukraine, maintains his ultimatum and opposes any security guarantee for Ukraine.” “The key issue is whether Trump understands“He added.
While a large part of the world is on summer vacation, many villages in Spain begin their popular festivals, the thermometers shoot and the fires put on alert to several areas of southern Europe, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin star in their first summit in six years, with peace in Ukraine at the table and, above all, the fear that the Russian president takes the American leader agreements or concessions to put even more pressure on Ukraine.
