Ukrainians who left country fear war will never end after Trump-Zelensky meeting
The Ukrainians living in the UK are afraid of Vladimir Putin’s summit between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky in the White House early this week.
Monika Popadiuk, who moved from Kiev to England in July 2022, said that if the destructive conflict does not end, he was afraid he was afraid of losing everything for the second time ”. In the 28 -year -old Ukrainian Parliament, he quit his dream business as a lawyer and moved to the rural Somperset under the British government’s Ukrainian program.
Like many displaced Ukrainians, Mrs. Popadiuk desperately wants to go back to her old life in Kiev. However, although Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer greeting the meeting on Monday by Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, he does not think that this would be possible in the near future.
“Peace” people’s speech does not feel like peace for me, “he said Independent. “It seems just like a pause. The war will continue unless Ukraine is given real security guarantees.”
He is worried that peace talks between Russian and Ukrainian leaders will only “freeze” war.
“The Kremlin seems to really want to end this war,” he continued. “Even if the war is frozen now, it will start again in a few months or years when Russia is stronger than today.”
As for the region that accepts Ukraine, Mrs Popadiuk thinks that it will only serve to strengthen Russia: “This seems to be soothing. History shows us that soothing never stops the aggressors. It just encourages to continue.”
Three years after the beginning of the Russian occupation, there were some young Ukrainians who have never seen their own countries.
The son of Liza Perebyynis was born in 2022 after starting a full -scale attack on Ukraine, and is now considered a “child of war ..
“He didn’t know the war, but he would have this status,” he said 34 -year -old.
The child is now three years old and does not speak when he understands the Ukrainian. While the war continues to get angry, he suffers from his mother that he cannot show his country.
Ms. Perebyynis left the Donbas region and Ukraine, where Russia annexed the Crimea in 2014. At first he went to China and then to Germany, where he opened his own yoga studio. The meeting of the key European leaders on the Washington DC, which was also seen on Monday, was not a “breakthrough ,, in his opinion – just repeated the history.
He told me Independent: “We were already there. This conflict has not been realized since 2014 or 2022. For centuries, the region is back and forth.
“We have been betrayed. Giving up the regions will now mean that the war will start again within three years or five years.”
Ms. Perebyynis was disappointed with the scope of Mr. Zelensky’s White House meeting, especially the “ridiculous” focus, especially the Ukrainian President.
“All this sounds more like a red carpet and a shaking show,” he said. “Zelensky was not the most important part to wear a suit.
“I was hoping for real politics, but I don’t think a real decision was made.”
37 -year -old Tetia Shcherban, a Ukrainian entrepreneur in London, returns to Kiev as much as he can to see his family.
“When you love something, it doesn’t matter whether it’s dangerous, or he said. “I need time to be there and feel the energy of Ukraine.”
He came to England under the Ukrainian Family Visa Program and now separating his time between London and Kyiv. Before the war, Tettiana said that it was “almost ideal life ,, and then when Russia invaded, she had to şart start from scratch”.
Although Ms. Shcherban’s desire to return home more permanently,: Orum I don’t think this is the last. This part of the war may be an end, but not the end of Russia’s plans.
“The feeling of danger for the Baltic countries will not end at the moment. The Russian propaganda is still valid. The ideas they built their armies and this war movement will never stand.”
