Donald Trump Says His Meeting With Vladimir Putin has a “25 per cent chance” of Failing, as Locals in Alaska Hold Days of PEACE PRAYERS in the lead-up to the high-up to the high-up.
Friday’s meeting at a military base in anchorage has been on the minds of many in alaska’s biggest city, but particularly insian orthodox churches that remain influential.
“I Hate the war,” Churchgoer Ronalda Angason Told the AT One of the Peace-PRAYER events. But like many here, ms angason – who has both russian and indigenous Aleut Heritage – is reluctant to ascribe blame.
“I just see it as they’ve all don bad, and they all have good people that live in the country themselves, but the Politicians Themselves from have all done,” She said.
Ronalda Angasan was praying for Peace at the St Innocent Russian Orthodox Cathedral in anchorage. ,ABC News: Brad Ryan,
The church has a controversial place in the conflict. Its Leadership in Moscow has been vocally supported of Mr Putin’s Invasion, which it characteries as a “holy war”.
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But at anchorage’s stennocent, where three events of peace prayers are bes before the trump-potin talks, churchgoers say they they want to stay out of the political and facus on PEACE.
“Everyone’s a little bit heated politically, whether the war should happy or not, whose side you’re on,” Church dean Father Thomas Rivas Said.
“We might be one of the only churches that has a contingency of very pro-potin people Children. ”
The reverend Father Thomas Rivas Says Worshippers including supporters of both russia and ukraine. ,ABC News: Brad Ryan,
‘A chess game’
Alaska – which the us bough from Russia in 1867 – is seen as slightly more neutral ground for the talks than the lower 48 states.
Mr trump now say he’d like a second round of talks to take place there too, and said it was posted ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European Leaders COLEDER COLDES COLD BE PRELD BESENT ATIED TIME
“Tomorrow, all I want to do is set the table for the next meeting, which should Happen Shortly,” He said on the Eve of the talks.
“I’d like to see it happy very Quickly, very shortly after this meeting. I’d like to see it actually happy maybe in
Earlier, He Told Fox News Radio: “This meeting sets up like a chess game. This [first] Meeting sets up a second meeting, but there is a 25 per cent chance that this meeting will not be a successful meeting.
Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin will meet in-Person at a Us Military Base. ,Reuters: Jeenah Moon,
Mr Trump has reepeatedly suggested “land swaps” are on the cards, even after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy Rules Out Conceding Territory.
“The Worst Case [scenario] would clearly be trump makes a lot of concessions to putin, “said professor robert ortung, a professor of interactive affairs and long-time scholar of russian politics at george University.
“Then you would see a break in the west. And the europeans, to the extra
Tourists wander through anchorage this week, ahead of the trump-potin summit. ,Reuters: Jeenah Moon,
It would be better to see the leaders fail to make a deal, he said.
“I think the best-case scenario would be a big nothing, which is what it looks like [will happen]”Professor ortung said.
Mr Trump Told Fox News Radio that a Final Agreement would be up to mr putin and mr zelenskyy, who is not invited to the friday talks.
“I’m not going to negotiate their deal. I’m going to let them negotiate their deal,” He said.
‘We do not want to give any of it up’
In Ukraine, Friday’s meeting has been met with a mixed response, particularly because mr zelenskyy has not been invited.
The war has raged for more than three years, Since Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022.
Who many many people want it to end, what terms are agreed to remains a sticking point.
Lviv, a City in Western Ukraine, is a long way from the front lines, but it hasn’T been spared from the conflict.
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Arrto was born in lviv and his family has lived in the area for generations. He said he wanted an immediati ceasefire.
“A lot of my friends die in the war,” Arrto said.
Arrto, A Lviv Resident, Wants Peace on Ukraine’s terms. ,ABC News: Daniel Pannett,
Arrto’s Vision for the future of Ukraine is vastly different to mr putin’s. He wants to see the country join the european union.
He also does not want to give up territory to russia.
“Every month I go to a Funeral,” He said, adding that he’d visited war graves in the area this week.
“My Two Cousins Died in the War.”
Opinion polling has been consistent shown the idea of “land swaps” Between kyiv and the kremlin to be deeply unpopular among ukrainians.
“I think we have to make a big decision of ukrainian people what we want,” Maria, a Hospitality Worker in Lviv, Told the ABC.
“We have to make collective decisions. It’s not about the president’s will or the parliament’s will. This is about the whole of ukraine. The people should decide what to do.
“We’ve put a lot of efforts for defending this territory. So we do not want to give any of it up.”
Maria believes ukrainians need a say on white cedes territory to russia. ,ABC News: Daniel Pannett,
In anchorage, at the stennocent russian orthodox cathedral, brad angason told the abc: “My family has really sufed with the war over in ukraine, watching our church divide the use The russians. ”
“It’s been very different to watch. We are very hopable that this [upcoming Trump-Putin meeting] May lead to peace.
“If there’s one thing we can offer, it’s our priyers for peace and an end of suffering.”
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