Many Ukrainians seem unwilling to accept that all or part of the territories may be lost, even if Ukraine does not officially recognize a border change. “No one recognizes these territories as being under Russian control — just as no one recognized occupied Luhansk or Sevastopol from 2014 to 2022,

Ukrainians who fled their home country would love to think the meeting in Alaska on Friday is the first step on a path to peace, but very few believe that's true.

President Donald Trump will go into talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday hoping to achieve a halt to the fighting in the war in Ukraine, but a comprehensive solution to the conflict will take longer,