Kyiv residents share mixed views on first direct Russia-Ukraine peace talks
Kyiv residents had mixed opinions on Friday about the first direct Russia-Ukraine peace talks. Vsevolod Shal, a local resident, expressed his approval of the prisoner swap, saying that it's "essential."
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Kyiv residents had mixed opinions on Friday about the first direct Russia-Ukraine peace talks. Vsevolod Shal, a local resident, expressed his approval of the prisoner swap, saying that it's "essential."
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00:00Kiev residents had mixed opinions on Friday about the first direct Russia-Ukraine peace talks.
00:09Local residents expressed their approval of the prisoner swap saying that it was essential.
00:17I, for one, have no confidence in this.
00:20But I would like to believe that Europe and America must somehow unite and put pressure on that Russian president.
00:28Human also sounds so-so like a person who should stop this war, but he or she should.
00:36Everyone should unite around Ukraine.
00:39Ukraine cannot do it alone, because we want to.
00:44We strive for it, but not everything is in our hands.
00:48Both sides agreed on a large prisoner swap after their meeting, but they clearly remain far apart on key conditions for ending the fighting.
00:59Meanwhile, the move to swap prisoners has also attracted support from Ukrainians.
01:03I think it's very good, because I'm sure they can exchange them, just like the Esauv servicemen, just like many other prisoners of war who have been in captivity since the beginning of the war.
01:14Their families are waiting for them.
01:15I am sure that this exchange is essential.
01:19In Istanbul, Kiev and Moscow agreed to exchange a thousand prisoners of war each, according to the heads of both delegations, in what will be their biggest such swap.