(25 Apr 2025)
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Yalta, Crimea – 25 April 2025
1. People walking in street
2. Tree with blossoms, embankment in background
3. People walking on embankment, flag reading (Russian) “Victory!” dedicated to WWII anniversary
4. People walking past church
5. Wide of boat in harbour
6. Men on boat with the name reading (Russian) “Crimea”
7. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Alexander (no surname given), local resident:
“When everyone recognizes it, it will be easier for us to communicate with everyone. Because for now there are restrictions, that is, inconveniences with traveling abroad, with various commercial structures. And what (U.S. President, Donald) Trump has said so far, there is little hope for this. He says a lot, but does very little.”
8. Wide of city with beach and sea in foreground
9. People on beach
10. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Yelena Kovalyova, local resident:
“I agree with Trump. That Crimea will remain part of Russia certainly. No one doubts that. That’s my opinion. At least I don’t doubt it.”
11. People walking on embankment
12. Flag on embankment dedicated to WWII anniversary, reading (Russian) “Victory!”
13. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Yelena Kovalyova, local resident:
“I think there will be no agreements with Ukraine. There will be… no one knows what there will be, if someone knew… I can’t say anything on this issue. Journalist (Russian): "Will there be peace or war, what do you think?"
Yelena Kovalyova (Russian): "Of course, I would like there to be peace. But there are such people in Ukraine, with whom it is unlikely that anything will be resolved in terms of peace.”
14. Various of people walking on embankment
15. Wide of lighthouse
STORYLINE:
Residents in Crimea reacted on Friday to a statement made by U.S. President Donald Trump who said in an interview that “Crimea will stay with Russia.”
“What Trump has said so far, there is little hope for this. He says a lot, but does very little,” one local who gave only his first name, Alexander, said.
Another local agreed with Trump about Crimea but expressed doubts that a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine was possible.
“Of course, I would like there to be peace. But there are such people in Ukraine, with whom it is unlikely that anything will be resolved in terms of peace,” Yelena Kovalyova said.
Trump made the comments in a Time magazine interview conducted on Tuesday and published on Friday.
“Crimea will stay with Russia. (Ukrainian President Volodymyr) Zelenskyy understands that, and everybody understands that it’s been with them for a long time”, he said.
Crimea is a strategic peninsula along the Black Sea in southern Ukraine.
It was seized by Russia in 2014, while President Barack Obama was in office, years before the conflict began in 2022.
The Russian takeover followed large protests set off by former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, who refused to sign an association agreement with the European Union.
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