(12 May 2025)
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Kyiv, Ukraine – 12 May
1. Wide of the memorial of fallen Ukrainian soldiers in the Independence square
2. People at the memorial
3. Wide of portraits of fallen Ukrainian soldier
4. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Antonina Metko, 43, Zhytomer resident:
"He (Putin) does not want to end this war, he wants to destroy both his population and our population. Because if he stops the war, it will mean that he has lost. He knows that he has already lost. But he doesn’t know how… he doesn’t want to accept his loss. And the Russian people also do not want to accept that they have already lost. That is why they are postponing it. And everything will continue in the same way. Unfortunately."
5. People at the memorial
6. Wide of portraits of fallen Ukrainian soldier
7. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Oleksandr Chopov, 55, Kyiv resident:
"My friends, my son, everyone is at war. I don’t see a ceasefire. I see that they are attacking here and there, they are trying here and there."
8. Wide of people walking near the memorial
9. Wide of the portraits on the memorial
STORYLINE:
Kyiv residents reacted early Monday to Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s offer to meet Putin face-to-face in Turkey.
Russia launched more than 100 Shahed and decoy drones at Ukraine in nighttime attacks, the Ukrainian air force said Monday, after the Kremlin rejected an unconditional 30-day ceasefire in the more than three-year war.
There was no response from the Kremlin, meanwhile, to Zelenskyy’s challenge for Russia’s President Vladimir Putin to meet him for face-to-face peace talks in Turkey this week.
The United States and European governments have made a concerted push to stop the fighting, which has killed tens of thousands of soldiers on both sides as well as more than 10-thousand Ukrainian civilians. Russia’s invading forces have taken around one-fifth of Ukraine.
In a flurry of diplomatic developments over the weekend, Russia shunned the ceasefire proposal tabled by the U.S. and European leaders but offered direct talks with Ukraine on Thursday.
Ukraine, along with European allies, had demanded Russia accept a ceasefire starting Monday before holding peace talks. Moscow effectively rejected that proposal and instead called for direct negotiations in Istanbul.
U.S. President Donald Trump insisted Ukraine accept the Russian offer. Zelenskyy went a step further and put the pressure on Putin by offering a personal meeting between the leaders.
In 2022, in the war’s early months, Zelenskyy repeatedly called for a personal meeting with the Russian president but was rebuffed, and eventually enacted a decree declaring that holding negotiations with Putin had become impossible.
Putin and Zelenskyy have only met once, in 2019. Trump says “deep hatred” between the sides has made it difficult to push peace efforts forward.
AP video by Vasilisa Stepanenko
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