(20 May 2025)
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Kyiv – 20 May 2025
1. Various of monument in central Kyiv
2. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Svitlana Kyryliuk, 66, local resident:
“It (peace) is not possible now, only when they run out of resources and army manpower. They are ready to fight, at least for this summer. It (peace) is possible closer to the fall. Not now. He’ll (Russian President, Vladimir Putin) stall for time, and that’s it. This is a very cunning and insolent person… I don’t know, it’s not a person or human. He is very cunning and insolent. He knows how to talk to (U.S. President, Donald) Trump and is just fooling the whole world.”
3. Various of people walking in central Kyiv
4. Various of monument
5. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Volodymyr Lysytsia, 45, serviceman:
“I think he (Putin) is just stalling for time. He wants to grab more land. He said himself that he needs territories. And he leaves nothing there, only scorched earth, everything bombed. I came for rehabilitation, and here (in Kyiv) is a completely different world from the one there (on the front line).”
6. Various of people walking by people made memorial for fallen soldiers
7. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Mykhailo, 82 (last name not given because of safety reasons):
“I don’t believe in negotiations as long as they are going the way they are now. Trump should have met with Putin long ago after so many months in power, but he only talks on the phone. He threatened both Putin and Zelensky, but he still can’t meet with everyone, some kind of frivolous conversation on his part.”
8. Various of people paying their respects at memorial for fallen soldiers
STORYLINE:
In Kyiv on Tuesday some people showed little optimism about progress towards peace with Russia.
Following talks between Ukrainian and Russian delegations in Turkey mediated by the United States last week, U.S. President Donald Trump held separate phone calls with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Monday.
It is obvious that Russia is trying to buy time to continue the war and occupation,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Tuesday on Telegram.
“We are working with partners to put pressure on the Russians to behave differently,” he added in an apparent reference to further international sanctions on Russia.
Ukraine has offered a comprehensive 30-day ceasefire, which Moscow has effectively rejected by imposing far-reaching conditions, and Zelenskyy proposed a face-to-face meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin but the Russian leader spurned that offer.
Trump said his personal intervention was needed to push peace efforts forward, and on Monday he held separate talks over the phone with Zelenskyy and Putin.
Russia and Ukraine will “immediately” begin ceasefire negotiations, Trump announced, though there was no detail on exactly when or where such talks might take place and who might attend them.
Among ordinary Ukrainians, public sentiment toward a potential ceasefire and lasting peace remains largely pessimistic.
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