00:00The Ukrainian president, of course, was excluded from the meeting about his country's future,
00:05though he and European allies had coordinated with the U.S. president beforehand.
00:09Let's get the view from Kiev with our correspondent there, Emmanuel Shaz.
00:13Emmanuel, I don't believe we've had any reaction from Zelensky quite yet.
00:17What is, though, the general view in Ukraine on how this summit unfolded?
00:24Well, the fact that there was no immediate reaction from Volodymyr Zelensky,
00:29who was supposed to have a call with Donald Trump as soon as the meeting was over,
00:33is quite revealing of the general atmosphere here.
00:36To be honest, nobody was expecting much from this summit.
00:39Everybody thought there was a lot of noise for probably not a lot of results,
00:43and in any case, no positive result for Ukraine.
00:46And people here are simply not surprised.
00:48I mean, I was talking last night with people here in Kiev,
00:52but also with people who are currently fighting on the front line in the directions
00:57where Russia continues to pressure the Ukrainian army.
01:01And everybody was, you know, asking why all the noise around that meeting
01:06when the president of Ukraine was not even there to discuss the future of the country.
01:11So there's no surprise this morning that there is, in essence, no result to that summit.
01:17Ukrainians have been used since 2014 to Russia not being genuine in any peace talk,
01:24to Russia violating any ceasefire, any agreement that is reached and that could bring peace if Russia wished so.
01:32It is maybe worth remembering that if Russia simply withdrew its troops from the front line,
01:39the war would actually be over.
01:42It's quite a basic fact, but it seems to have been also forgotten.
01:45And also Vladimir Putin was free to say in Alaska that he wanted still to eliminate what he calls the root causes of the conflict.
01:54The root cause of the conflict for Vladimir Putin, according to the Russian president, is that Ukraine still exists.
02:01So for Ukrainians, when we hear what the Russian president is saying about Ukraine,
02:09it is understandable that for Ukrainians there's not so much hope to have a deal, a ceasefire, fair negotiations,
02:16at least a genuine will from the Russian side to even start talking about, you know, stopping the war, about the ceasefire.
02:25This is certainly not the case this morning.
02:27And you are in Kyiv, of course, Emmanuel.
02:29What's been happening on the ground in the meantime?
02:32Has it sort of been business as usual, both there and on the battlefield?
02:38It was business as usual, in a way.
02:41There were some air raid alerts yesterday.
02:44The night was relatively quiet, although elsewhere in the country that was not the case.
02:48In his last address, Volodymyr Zelenskyy was saying, was reminding that Russian bombs continued to fall on Ukrainians.
02:57Yesterday, it is a central market in the city of Sumy, which is not far from the front line, that was hit by a Russian bomb.
03:05Other places near the front line, in Zaporizhia, in Dnipro, were also hit by Russian strikes.
03:12And, of course, the fighting continues on the front line, with people telling me that there is absolutely no sign of Russia wanting to wind down its offensive, quite the opposite.
03:24So the results of this meeting in Alaska will come as no surprise to Ukrainians,
03:30even if, of course, there was a faint hope that Donald Trump would have put enough pressure on Vladimir Putin for him to at least agree to a trilateral meeting with Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
03:40Donald Trump said that he was hoping for this meeting to still happen, but seeing from Kiev, you know, people are ready to, you know, are ready to keep on fighting,
03:51because it's really a war of survival here for Ukrainians who are defending their land.
03:56All right, Emmanuel, thank you.
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