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The surprise effect quickly gave way to apprehension, even anger. Ukraine has discovered with amazement the organization of a summit between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin scheduled for Friday, August 15 in Alaska. This meeting will be the first between the leader of Western power and the Russian head of state since the launch of the invasion of Ukraine in 2022. While he had changed his tone and decided to put pressure on Moscow to obtain the end of the war, the American president seems to be flipping again, suggesting that “there would be exchanges of territories for the benefit of each”. According to leaks published in the American press, Washington would not oppose a total occupation by Russia of the two regions forming the Donbass, while about a third of the Donetsk Oblast always escapes its control.
This perspective caused a strong excitement within Ukrainian society. “The Nobel Peace Prize winners are not awarded to those who put an end to wars by giving the attacker the land and the populations that he has not managed to conquer militarily,” cracked the anti -corruption activist Olena Hauushka, in allusion of Trump’s will to receive the famous reward. “No sensible Ukrainian official would dare to give the army to voluntarily leave the territory of its own country without fighting. So, if Putin really wants to seize Kramatorsk and Zaporijia [deux grandes villes de régions annexées mais non occupées par la Russie]He will have to take them by force, ”summed up a soldier on social networks.