Like many Ukrainians, Victoria Kadantseva is leery of the recent whirlwind of diplomatic activity – happening in foreign places from Miami and Geneva to Moscow and even Alaska – that she believes could be existential for Ukraine’s future.

“We are not expecting a good outcome when they are discussing our country’s future in all these places like it is theirs to decide,” says Ms. Kadantseva, the executive assistant in the Kyiv office of an international consumer products company.

“We don’t want to give up our territory and lose our sovereignty,” she adds, “but it seems that is what they talk about.”

Why We Wrote This

As U.S. and Russian negotiators met, and European leaders scrambled to make a peace deal palatable to Kyiv, Ukrainians were, uncomfortably, bystanders to talks over their fu

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