Morning after Putin-Trump call, people in Russian-controlled Donetsk hope for peace but doubt it comes soon

Record ID: 1984712

  • Title: Morning after Putin-Trump call, people in Russian-controlled Donetsk hope for peace but doubt it comes soon
  • Date: 19th March 2025
  • Summary: DONETSK, RUSSIAN-CONTROLLED UKRAINE (MARCH 19, 2025) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF CARS DRIVING IN CENTRAL DONETSK VARIOUS OF BUILDING WITH LETTERS "DPR (DONETSK PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC)" ON IT PEOPLE IN STREET PEOPLW WALKING TO BUS STOP (SOUNDBITE) (Russian) DONETSK RESIDENT, NATALIA, NO LAST NAME GIVEN, SAYING: "I would like peace very much, but it's the politicians...I can't tell (if
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  • Keywords: Donetsk Putin Russia Trump Ukraine
  • Location: DONETSK, RUSSIAN-CONTROLLED UKRAINE
  • City: DONETSK, RUSSIAN-CONTROLLED UKRAINE
  • Country: Ukraine
  • Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,Europe
  • Reuters ID: LVA001995619032025RP1
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  • Story Text: Residents of Donetsk, a Russian-controlled city in the eastern Ukraine, interviewed by Reuters on Wednesday (March 19) said they hoped for peace following phone conversation between the Russian and the U.S. presidents.
    Some, however, were sceptical, saying that only a signed agreement, not phone calls could lead to peace, while others doubted if Ukraine would comply with a peace agreement.
    On Tuesday U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin held a telephone conversation that focused on ending the war in Ukraine.
    In the call that last about 90 minutes, Putin agreed to stop attacking Ukrainian energy facilities temporarily but declined to endorse a full 30-day ceasefire that Trump had hoped would be the first step toward a permanent peace deal.
    Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy had agreed to the U.S. proposed 30-day ceasefire before the Putin-Trump call and later on Tuesday voiced supported the more limited ceasefire on energy targets.
    Donetsk has been under control of pro-Russian separatists since 2014. The city has been at the centre of the conflict in eastern Ukraine and has been shelled numerous times since then, leading to multiple civilian casualties.
    Both sides say they do not target civilians in the war, now in its fourth year. But thousands have been killed, the overwhelming majority of them Ukrainians.
    Russia declared in September 2022 that it had incorporated Donetsk and three other Ukrainian regions, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, as part of its own territory, even though its forces did not fully control them - a move condemned as illegal by most countries at the United Nations.
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