Four days before the meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin in Alaska on August 15 to discuss the end of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, the Russian leader still seems to camp in his positions. If he explains to want to find a high fire agreement, he is not ready to make any concession in its terms of armistice, which includes the annexation of several Ukrainian regions in addition to Crimea.
Most are in the territory of DonBass, where the possibility of going under the Russian pavilion is unacceptable for the Ukrainian inhabitants.
“I would do my things and I would leave”
They are categorical: “No, no, that will not happen.” In Kramorsk, violence has been daily for several months after the acceleration of the progression of Russian forces. However, for Victoria, impossible to leave your home. “It’s my house. I was born here, I grew up here and my children too. My parents are buried there.
“Why should I leave?” She asked. “I am Ukrainian, I like Ukraine and I want to live here.”
Because if a peace agreement was signed with the transfer of territories, many see only one option: to leave the DonBass to remain in the Ukrainian territory. “I would do my things and go,” says Victoria, who lives in the city of Oleksandrivka.
If Ukraine folded in the conditions dictated by Russia, he would not hide his feeling of betrayal. “In any case, I want to give in our lands. Many children, so many young lives, have sacrificed so many things for that, and abandon them now would be very painful.”
Unimaginable for soldiers involved in the front
The Donetsk region concentrates most fights fought for three years, but also most human losses. Therefore, a large part of the army is parked here. And for those who have been acting on the front from the Russian invasion, there too, this scenario returns to fabulation.
“I can’t imagine this,” said Eugène, a soldier who had been committed since 2022, to BFMTV. “Would we all leave Kramorsk now? And Russian troops would enter here?” He insists.
An unreal scenario for this soldier, who has confidence in the commitment of Volodymyr Zelensky. “In any case, the president rejected this option and the Constitution prohibits producing our territories.”
If Ukraine gave in all Donbass to Russia, the border between the two countries is already physically visible. The trenches, the barbed wire, the mines fields … fortifications have been created to delay the progress of the Russians, who continue to implacably nibble the Ukrainian territory, far from diplomatic negotiations.
Donald Trump, on the other hand, said at dawn of his discussions with Vladimir Putin that “there will be exchanges of territories for the benefit of each one”, without giving details. The United States announced on Sunday, August 10, working to “schedule” a new meeting, this time between Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky.
Source: BFM TV
