Genadi Kostov is a war veteran and concierge in a housing building in the center of kyiv. Since his goal he has seen the Russians besiege their city in 2022 and since its goal has suffered the invader bombings against the Ukraine capital. On Friday, a few hours before the Summit in Alaska between the presidents of the United States and Russia, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, Kostov check the last minute news on the meeting on his phone. What did he expect from the meeting? “It is basically a meeting between two asshole to decide how we fuck us,” Kostov settled.
Ukraine does not trust Trump and the Alaska Summit has still caused more resets in his society. “Pathetic, painfully pathetic, it is literally comic at this point. You do not hesitate, Trump will go to Moscow,” he written this Saturday in his social networks Ilia Ponomarenko, one of the most influential opinioners in Ukraine. “Nauseabundo, shameful and in the end, useless,” are the first words of an editorial of the newspaper Kyiv Independent About the meeting in Anchorage. “Eternal shame for the United States,” added another outstanding Ukrainian civil activist, Mijaílo Golub.
“In all my life I would not have imagined that the United States would fall so low,” says Galina Yareha, a 55 -year -old woman from the Lvvvi region, in western Ukraine, directive of a food company. “See American soldiers by placing the red carpet for a criminal who has killed so many people, is horrible.” “These two idiots will not get anything,” says Yareha in reference to Trump and Putin, “it will not be easy for us, but we will resist with Europe.”
“I hope that if Putin did not accept the ceasefire, Trump would send to this bastard the Court of The Hague and thus would become the leader of the world,” says Irina Prijodko, a physical education professor at Zaporiyia, in East Ukraine, “but now instead we only have to join Ukrainians and Europeans and ignore this couple.”
Bogdan Chernenko departed at the time of this Saturday’s lunch at a kyiv store with friends. Among them they shared Memes With their phones, images that run through the nets mocking the summit. Chernenko, an employee of a security company, was especially set in the photographs of the meeting: “Trump does not appear as jovial as usual, because he knows he has not achieved anything.” “Putin, on the other hand, leaves Alaska with the objectives met, with international recognition, and goes so pancho without having given anything to Trump,” says Chernenko: “It is certainly not good for us.”
These manifestations contrast with the strategy of President Ukraine, Volodimir Zelenski, and his team to congratate Trump. The presidential office and the government do not give up trying to win the favor of the American leader, as they have done again this Saturday. Both Zelenski and his foreign minister, Andrii Sibiga, have highlighted the efforts of the White House to end Trump’s war and promise that, in exchange for a painful peace agreement, they will receive “security guarantees” from the US, without specifying whether they go beyond the delivery of weapons. Trump has ruled out Ukraine access in NATO. One of the Kremlin demands to stop the invasion is that kyiv stops receiving international military support.
The Ukrainian media are not as benevolent as their government and have highlighted with their greatest headlines the interview Trump has granted to the Fox News television shortly after saying goodbye to Putin. The American president has said that now it is time for Zelenski to accept an agreement with Russia, he reiterated that Ukraine must give territory and has insisted that with him in the White House, Joe Biden’s years have ended in the presidency, “when thousands of dollars were given to Ukraine as if they were sweets.”
Trump has also advanced in Fox that the summit has been so well that he postpones its plans to impose economic sanctions on Russia and on the countries that buy its energy resources, the main source of financing of the Russian military industry. Zelenski has asked Trump that, in case Putin does not accept an upcoming meeting between the three, he agrees to impose sanctions on Russia. President Ukraine has insisted on the idea of the truce: “The attacks must cease as soon as possible on the front and in the air, as well as against our port infrastructure.”
The drop that has filled the glass has been the final message that Trump has published in the social network Truth and in which he has announced that there has been an agreement with Putin: the claimed immediate truce as a previous step to finish the war, an essential condition for months according to the position of Washington, it is already past water. According to Trump, Zelenski and European allies would have seconded that fire is no longer necessary to negotiate peace.
This means that peace will be negotiated while fighting. And on the war front, who carries the singing voice is Russia. Ukraine has a troops and weapons deficit compared to the invading army. Soldiers of the special forces of the National Police and officers of the 155th mechanized Brigade of Ukraine confirmed last week to El País in Donetsk that are suffering a lack of ammunition by the brake of US military support.
The European powers are from this 2025 the main military support of Ukraine, ahead of the USA. The White House of Trump has approved just over 1,000 million euros in arms transfers, after payment of these by their European allies in NATO. The figure is much lower to the rhythm that supported Biden.
“Great victory of Putin”
“This is a great victory for Putin, Trump has fully assumed his narrative that a complete peace agreement is better than a quick fire,” he warned in X Janis Klug, deputy director of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs. ” Clara Victoria for Putin, and without sanctions. For Ukraine, nothing, for Europe, a deep disappointment, ”said Wolfgang Ischinger analysis, German diplomat and director of the Munich Security Conference.
“What has happened is that Putin has managed to convince Trump that any effort for a high fire will fail, and Trump’s support has been won that the deep causes The conflict must be faced, ”said Tatiana Stanovaya, an academic of the Carnegie Center for Russia and Eurasia.
What happened is the confirmation of a Ukrainian distrust that comes from afar, from the beginning of Trump’s mandate in January. The International Institute of Sociology of kyiv (KIS) established in December 2024, based on their surveys, which only 21% of Ukrainians considered the immediate presidency of the Republican as negative for their interests. The percentage had increased in June to 72%. The US President has maintained a kyiv and conciliation pressure strategy with Moscow, imposing Draconian trade agreements, such as the Owls Exploitation Pact, or a drastic reduction of military aid for Ukrainian troops.
The Russian president Dmitri Medvedev has celebrated the result of the summit in his Telegram account. “The White House Chief has accepted the pressure on Russia, highlights Medvedev, and, most importantly, the disappearance of high fire as a condition” shows that negotiations are possible while the special military operation (war) continues. “
Medvedev’s triumphalism is especially painful because it was his tweet warning Trump of a war escalation that took this August to the US president to move two nuclear submarines near the Russian coast.
That Trump movement was exultantly received by Andrii Yermak, head of the office of President Ukraine. “All in Ukraine we looked at the Wrestling (Wrestling US shows), when Ric Flair, Hulk Hogan, Building and Stone Cold fought. It was a time of power and personality, ”said Yermak, before adding:” What Trump has done with Medvedev is the classic buffer. Quiet, powerful, confident, as it has to be. ”That message from the right hand of Zelenski was not the first in similar terms and received numerous criticisms, for being considered as an excess of flattery to Trump. Quite the opposite of what the citizens of Ukraine think.
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