– Regardless of the terms of peace, I can hardly even visit my home region anymore.
This is what the Luhansk region is from the area Julia naidyš; He then escaped to Latvia.
Naidyš is from a small town near the city of Starobilsk. He does not want to tell the name of his home village because he still lives there.
After returning from Latvia, Naidyš has lived in Kiev since summer 2022. He has done educational work on eastern Ukraine in the media.
President Donald Trump He has followed the most recent speeches of peace without a new emotional stance. Naidyš says she had taken despair before.
– In the beginning, I believed in the rapid release of my home region. I believed that the areas would be restored to us as a gesture of good will. Then I saw how Russia destroys whole cities in the Donetsk region.
“We have to keep one”
The Russian troops occupied the Naidyš home town immediately in the first week of the invasion of the offensive in 2022. Russia occupied the home village without battles. Now the woman is afraid that if the battles move to his home town at some point, there will be nothing left.
Naidyš is not afraid to express his Ukraine-minded positions in public, even though his loved ones have remained in the occupation. Due to his civic activism and political position, he does not believe he would be able to visit home frogs if they were left under the interim control of Russia in the Peace Treaty.
– With other Easterners, we always think about what if. What if one of our loved ones dies and we can’t even see them.
He feels that those from occupied areas must now keep one so that no one forgets that these areas are part of Ukraine.
In southern Ukraine
28-year-old Erik Reitmeyer It is much more hopeful that he will be able to get to his home corners one day.
Despite his German name, he comes from Nova Kahovka, the occupied part of the Herson region.
The young man lived under occupation for more than two months, but after several attempts he reached the Ukrainian -controlled areas. His mother and grandparents have remained in the man’s blockade.
– When the peace talks are reached, I believe that first an agreement on the Herson and Zaporižžja regions and Donbas will be left later.
Reitmeyer has been calm about Trump’s outputs as he sees a lot of uncertainties in the overall pattern.
– We don’t know many things yet. What now seems shocking can lead to positive results.
US president Donald Trump discussed the Russian president Vladimir Putin With Wednesday about the start of negotiations to end the Russian offensive war. Trump was interpreted to have bent in Russia’s demands by outlining that Ukraine would not recover its pre -Crimean borders.
Watch the video of what Reitmeyer thinks about Trump’s speeches:
Reitmeyer is primarily concerned with the continuation of Western support.
– Ukraine will not succeed alone if there is no help and real security guarantees from the West. Even if Russia does not occupy the Ukrainian regions, it can still “occupy” Ukraine politically.
According to Reitmeyer, people under occupation have two types of views. The older people no longer care about which state they live, but younger people are waiting for the release of the area.
– The older ones already seem to have accepted their fate. They do not want military action near the home.
Reitmeyer fears that as the occupation becomes prolonged, the Ukrainians living under the influence of Russian propaganda will lose their mental connection to their countrymen on the other side of the front.
“However, I will not lose hope for the better,” Reitmeyer says.