(20 May 2025)
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Moscow – 20 May 2025
1. Wide of the Kremlin
2. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Andrei, Moscow resident:
“If some activity in the media is needed again, well, probably (Putin and Trump) will discuss something again, but it is unlikely to solve anything until there are some radical movements on the front. For now, everyone is stubborn and thinks that they will soon win."
3. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Valentina Kornilova, Moscow resident:
“I hope, we hope, that there will be a result, of course. We are waiting, really waiting for the end of the special military operation.”
4. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Vladimir Komarov, Moscow resident: ++ PARTIALLY OVERLAID BY SHOTS 5 AND 6++
“No one in the world is discussing the root cause that our president is talking about, and it is the main thing, where we need to start. Until they talk about it, all this is empty chatter.”
5. Mid of people walking in street
6. Close of Kremlin
STORYLINE:
There was mixed reaction in Moscow Tuesday after a phone call between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump failed to produce a breakthrough on ending the conflict in Ukraine.
One Moscow resident, who gave only his first name Andrei, believed conversations, like the one between Putin and Trump, wouldn’t lead to and end in the fighting until there were "radical movements" on the front.
“For now, everyone is stubborn and thinks that they will soon win,” he said.
“No one in the world is discussing the root cause that our president is talking about and it is the main thing, where we need to start,” Vladimir Komarov, another Moscow resident, said.
"Until they talk about it, all this is empty chatter," he added.
But others considered the conversation a positive step towards a possible peace treaty between Russia and Ukraine and hoped for an end to the conflict.
“I hope, we hope, that there will be a result, of course. We are waiting, really waiting for the end of the special military operation," Valentina Kornilova said.
In the phone call, Putin promised Trump that Russia is “ready to work with” Ukraine on a “memorandum” outlining the framework for “a possible future peace treaty".
Putin wants Ukraine to renounce joining NATO, sharply cut its military, and withdraw its forces from the four Ukrainian regions Moscow has seized but doesn’t fully control, among other demands to curb the country’s sovereignty.
Many Russian news outlets struck a triumphal tone in reporting Putin’s conversation with Trump.
Since Trump took office, Washington has urged Russia and Ukraine to end Europe’s biggest conflict since World War II.
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