Ukrainians living in Ireland have been speaking to RTÉ's News At One about their hopes for Ukraine in the weeks and months after today’s summit between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska.
Bohdan Mosiuzhenk is a support worker in Listowel where he helps other Ukrainians who have come here since the war began.
While he is not big into politics, Mr Mosiuzhenk wants to see a positive future for Ukraine.
"The main hope that I have from this meeting is that people will stop dying because of the war. For me that's the most important thing, " he said.
But Mr Mosiuzhenk, from central Ukraine, also has big fears about the Alaska summit.
"My biggest fear for this meeting is that Russia might pull America to its side. He said this would send a message to the world that the strong can force the weak.
"Simply take territories, resources, whatever they need - knowing there are no consequences."
Olha Ponomarenko, who lives in Tralee, is from Berdyansk in the Zaphorizia region in eastern Ukraine.
Her small home town has been under Russian occupation since the first week of the war.
She also harbours hopes and fears about today's meeting between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump
"There is a hope that international dialogue might finally bring and end to the war and the suffering it caused our country.
"On the other hand there is a deep fear that those negotiations could come at the expense of our sovereignty," Ms Ponomarenko said.
Does she believe most Ukrainians would accept some sort of compromise at this stage in order to end the bloodshed?
"We are hoping that our voices are not being ignored. It can not be appeasement.
"We can't talk about giving up our territory or our identity."
She said her family and everyone back home in Berdyansk were hoping for the end of the war.
"The question is at what price?"
Anatoliy Prymakov also from eastern Ukraine lives in Dublin.
He is not expecting good outcome for Ukraine.
"Any agreements that are being made without Ukraine and all of us in Europe, I doubt they would be made in the best interests of Ukraine and Europe.
"That's the problem with this summit."
Donald Trump is pushing Russia hard for a ceasefire but Mr Prymakov wonders if such an agreement could be trusted.
"Russia has promised ceasefires before," he said, adding that they never came to pass.
"I'm very doubtful of any ceasefire being reached from this meeting."
