Trump: Putin wants peace, but war rages and civilians die
Trump: Putin wants peace, but war rages and civilians die
When the emergency services reached the home of Tetyana Kulyk and her husband Pavlo Ivanchov on Wednesday, shortly after it was hit by a Russian drone, they could only recover their burned corpses.
The tragic fates of Kulyk and Ivanchov
Kulyk, a respected Ukrainian journalist, and Ivanchov, a surgeon and university professor, were killed when the drone scored her house north of Kiev. Neighbors reported the Ukrainian Radio Suspilne that they had heard screams and tried to get through the garage into the burning house, but had to find out that the entire building had been transformed into an impassable inferno.
political tensions and their effects
While US President Donald Trump advertises "an agreement" to terminate the war in Ukraine and Ukrainian President Zelensky appeals to the reporters in the White House , Russia carries out deadly attacks against Ukraine every day. Kulyk and Ivanchov are only two of more than 75 civilian victims who have been referred to as a "highly productive" phone call has killed with the Russian president Vladimir Putin in the past three weeks.
war realities and civilian victims
Trump was convinced that after the conversation that the Russian president wanted to end the war. "I think he wants to stop the fights. I see that. We have spoken long and intensely," said the US President. He criticized Zelensky for the fact that he supposedly did not want to negotiate with Putin - while the Russian president repeatedly violated earlier agreements and carried out an unproofed invasion of Ukraine in which civilians die.
At the same time, the fights in Ukraine are ongoing, and the number of civilian fatalities continues. According to the Ukrainian Air Force, Russia has fired more than 3,000 drones and at least 35 rockets to Ukraine since the phone call. In addition to the over 75 civilians killed, according to a count of CNN, which is based on statements from Ukrainian civil servants, almost 300 more, including many children, were injured.
Russia's repressed responsibility
The consequences of the conflict
A Russian rocket hit a building in Kryvyi Rih and killed 21-year-old Vladimir Pimenov, a talented dancer. Pimenov died in the hospital, his girlfriend was seriously injured in the attack. In the city of Biletske, in the Donetsk region, a Russian attack on a residential building cost the life of Yevhen and Olga Buryane, young parents of two children. Local volunteers organized a fundraising collection to support the orphans.
On a Friday where Trump and Zelensky prepared for their unfortunate meeting in the White House, several civilians were killed. A civilian died when a Russian drone met a minibus in Cherson, while two men were killed by Russian drones in their early 60s in Lyman, in the east of Ukraine. At least seven other Ukrainian civilians, including a young person, were killed in Russian attacks at the weekend.
Putin's territorial ambitions
Trump sent a delegation of American diplomats to Saudi Arabia at the beginning of the month to have peace talks with her Russian colleagues. Ukraine was not invited to this summit. The meeting lasted more than four hours and was described as "positive" by a member of the Moscow trial.
While Trump indicated that Putin was ready to negotiate, the Russian president has repeated his demands that are unacceptable for Kiev. Putin clearly pursues the goal of gaining control over the entire eastern regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Cherson and Zaporizhzhia, and the South Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea, which Moscow illegally annexed in 2014. According to the Institute for the Study of War, an American conflict surveillance organization, Russia currently occupies around 99 % of the Luhansk region, 70 % of the Donetsk region and about 75 % of the regions of Cherson and Zaporizhzhia.
The humanitarian crisis intensifies
Trump and his officials have explained that it is unlikely that the Ukraine can regain a lot of its area before the war. The President even brought the idea into play that Ukraine "might one day be Russian". According to the Ukrainian officials, around 6 million people, including 1 million children, live under the Russian occupation, which is described by the United Nations as a "dark human rights situation".
The Russian troops penetrate the front line in several areas and slowly take over more and more Ukrainian territory. In the eastern cities of Kostyantynivka and Pokrovsk there have been numerous attacks in the past few days, in which nine people in Kostyantynivka and three were killed in Pokrovsk last week. While many attacks are targeting East Ukrainian cities and villages, the last three weeks have shown that there is no security in Ukraine.
The Russian military leadership even fired rockets on Kiev, on the same day when Trump and Putin spoke, killed a person and injured a child. Deadly attacks on civilians are carried out regularly in the central city of Kryvyi Rih and in Cherson in the south.
The legacy of Kulyk and Ivanchov
When the news of her death made the round on Wednesday, Kulyk and Ivanchov were recognized by friends and colleagues, many emphasized their respective achievements. Serhiy Cherevaty, the General Director of Ukrinform, the Ukrainian National National News Agency, where Kulyk worked, praised their work on programs that focused on Ukraine's soldiers. "It will stay in our hearts and memories forever," he said in an explanation.
"Tetiana was not just a specialist in her field; she was a voice that told the world of the resilience of the Ukrainian people," said Serhiy Tomilenko, President of the National Journalist Union of Ukraine. The Bogomolets National Medical University, where Ivanchov worked, explained that he "operated not only, but also organized the entire healing process - from recording to dismissal from the hospital, he passed on his knowledge to students and colleagues and was a role model for students who wanted to become qualified doctors and responsible citizens." Ivanchov was the one "who made the university what it is today."
Reporting by CNNS Kostya Gak and Svitlana Vlasova.
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