Ukraine is afraid of trump’s peace

“I have no plan for the future,” says Oleksandr Bezhan, who worked as a fisherman who was on the edge of the southern Dnipro river in Ukraine. “If I wake up in the morning, that’s pretty good.”

Malokaternivka is just 15 km (9 miles) north of the first line in the Ukrainian Zaporizhzhia region.

If Donald Trump manages the president of the US to stop the war, he hopes to finish Malkaterynivka’s right side of that first line.

I last did in 2023 when I launched an anti-planned attack on Ukraine.

At the time, Ukrainians dared to dream of winning this war. After all, somewhere else, Kyiv and won the struggle of the released territory.

But in 18 months, artillery exchanges like thunder reflect the failure of that operation and dominance of Russia.

The line here is in the same place, but the extensive expansion of the river has disappeared.

When Kakhovka was destroyed by the Russian-occupied Kakhovka dam, the bushes became uninterrupted interruption.

Old environments are reflected in Limbo Ukrainian frozen. White houses want to end the war, but it’s not as easy as igniting full-time whistle.

“If the first line becomes an edge, it would be scary … could break every moment of fighting,” Oleksandr explained.

The presented river separates our location from the Russian occupied territory. Distance sunlight is bounced by nuclear power plant Zaporizhzhia since Moscow since 2022.

Ukraine and the US want peace, but consensus ends.

The view of Washington, along with the realities of the battlefield, means that Russia has caught the lands of Ukraine to keep.

Ukraine wants significant security guarantees to prevent the forces to encourage them across the river.

Instead, Donald Trump denies Kyiv to join the NATO alliance while focusing in Russia.

It has been seen and informed Ukraine for more than three years, his hand is very hard for the country.

There are betrayal feelings. Comments criticize the new foreign policy of Zelensky in Ukraine or its largest ally.

“The edge would not depend on ourselves,” Oleksandre says. “It probably won’t work, but Seoul is 30 km from North Korea, and they are somehow live and giving away.”

The challenge to find a new goal of Malokatereyniver is at the heart of Ukrainian future.

While politicians talk about talks, Ukrainians continue to fight and die.

Citizens gather in search of the funeral of a local soldier, also called Oleksandr. Half of the graves of the cemetery just punched.

The ceremony can not last more than 25 minutes due to the threat of artillery. For Doller Flinch and Duck Coat, when his friends greet the gun.

“I don’t expect the hope of a fire break,” says Natalya widower, however, wants to prove it badly.

“More and more are sending our boys on the front. Only if they could find a way to finish.”

Next to the river is a train line surrounded by a barbecue wire.

“The Russian agent is to stop sabotage track,” said Lyudmyla Voly, Malokateryniva lived in his life.

They used trains to go south to crime.

“We hope one day will be restored,” he says 65 years, optimism. “And one day we will go to our crime.”

Imagine the eleven years of the Russian occupation of Russia.

President of Zelensky stressed that he will not sign an agreement that does not enter Ukraine, so does Lyudmylla trust the agreement that protects himself?

“We want to believe,” he replied after a deep breath.

If Donald Trump denies peace to Ukrainian, it would be welcome in many quarters.

Uninterrupted nights, muted sirens and fallen soldiers who return home.

As things stand, any relief would pass quickly on how a fire break he will do and he will.

Kyiv will see that false detail as something to play. Ukrainian problem is therefore Russia.

Svitlana Libet, Toby Luckhurst and Hanna reported questions