Residents in Kyiv share their reaction to the Trump-Putin Alaska meeting

Описание: (16 Aug 2025)
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Kyiv, Ukraine - 16 August 2025
1. Wide of Kyiv's Freedom Square
2. Close of Ukrainian flag
3. Various of Kyiv's Freedom Square
4. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Natalya Cucil, Kyiv resident:
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"There are no results. I am very surprised that (President Donald) Trump, the leader of an international police force, a country, which is always trying to maintain order in the world, meets with a terrorist who is being wanted by the whole world. He is trying, trying, and trying (to talk to him). It's just strange. There are not any results and we don't know if there will be. Although we always expect something and hope for it."
5. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Natalya Lypei, Kyiv resident:
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"I was hoping the U.S. wouldn't roll out the red carpet to the enemy. How can you welcome like this a tyrant, not a human being, someone who not only wants evil for Ukraine, but for everyone else as well. It (the war) only started with Ukraine. The U.S. president does not think that it (war) may come to the U.S. Anything can happen. There is a boomerang (effect) and it may come back to him one day. It hurts me a lot that my child died in a full scale war. And today we saw a new funeral. I, as the mother of a child that was killed, do not want to wish anyone that sorrow, that sadness, those tears."
6. Various of memorial
STORYLINE:
Kyiv residents reacted with skepticism Saturday to the U.S.-Russia summit in Alasks, saying it was hard to understand how the Russian president was welcomed in the U.S.

"I was hoping that the U.S. wouldn’t roll out the red carpet for an enemy. How can you welcome a tyrant like this?" said Natalya Lypei, 66, who lost her son during the war.

President Donald Trump failed to secure an agreement from Vladimir Putin on Friday to end Russia’s war in Ukraine, falling short in his most significant move yet to stop the bloodshed, even after rolling out the red carpet for the man who started it.

Trump, who for years has balked at American support for Ukraine and expressed admiration for Putin, had pledged confidently to bring about an end to the war on his first day back in the White House.

Seven months later, after berating Zelenskyy in the Oval Office and stanching the flow of some U.S. military assistance to Kyiv, Trump could not bring Putin even to pause the fighting, as his forces make gains on the battlefield.

The U.S. president had offered Putin both a carrot and a stick, issuing threats of punishing economic sanctions on Russia while also extending a warm welcome at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, but he appeared to walk away without any concrete progress on ending the war in Ukraine, now in its fourth year.

Instead, he handed Putin long-sought recognition on the international stage, after years of Western efforts to make him a pariah over the war and his crackdown on dissent, and forestalled the threat of additional U.S. sanctions.

In a sign that the conversations did not yield Trump’s preferred result, the two leaders ended what was supposed to be a joint news conference without taking questions from reporters.

"There are no results. I am very surprised that Trump, the leader of a country that acts as an international police force and is always trying to maintain order in the world, meets with a terrorist who is wanted by the whole world," said 60-year-old Kyiv resident Natalya Cucil.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Saturday that he plans to meet U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington next week.





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