"A disgusting and useless summit... Zelenskyy is humiliated, Putin is given a red carpet."

(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Shin Chang-yong = Ukraine's feelings are complicated as it watched the summit between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin held in Alaska on the 15th (local time).

While they are relieved that the worst-case scenario, such as the concession of Ukrainian territory, has not emerged, they are expressing discomfort that President Putin, who should be internationally isolated, is receiving VIP treatment.

Oleksandr Merezhko, chairman of the Ukrainian parliament's foreign affairs committee, told the New York Times (NYT) that the biggest problem with this summit was President Putin's escape from diplomatic isolation.

He noted that Putin"won the information war," making it seem as if he was on equal footing with Trump. He added,"Putin used Trump to demonstrate that he wasn't isolated."

Merezhko, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Ukrainian parliament, is a member of the ruling party Servant of the People, and is known in Korea as the person who nominated Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize immediately after he was elected U.S. president in November of last year.

He categorically declared the talks a"failure," criticizing them for "repeating Putin's usual security rhetoric, with no change." He emphasized that the conclusion reached was that the war would continue.

The local Ukrainian media outlet Kyiv Independent also strongly criticized the meeting in an editorial, saying,"It was disgusting, shameful, and ultimately useless."

The outlet sniped, saying,"A blood-stained dictator and war criminal was given a grand welcome in the 'land of the free,'" and that "unlike his predecessor, who called Putin a murderer, Trump welcomed him like a king."

The Kyiv Independent noted that the reception for Putin was in stark contrast to Trump's hostile attitude toward his country's President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House six months ago.

The outlet criticized the scene, saying,"The Ukrainian president was publicly humiliated, while the Russian president was treated with great fanfare. Both scenes were shameful."

Bloomberg News gave a sober assessment of the summit in an article titled “Dear Neighbor: No Red Carpet for Putin, No Truce for Trump.”

The outlet warned that while Ukraine's greatest fears of territorial concessions have not materialized, this sense of relief may not last long.

President Zelensky's perception of the situation could change rapidly once he begins to understand what Trump and Putin discussed during the nearly three-hour closed-door meeting. President Zelensky has yet to take a position on the US-Russia summit.