{"id":39802,"date":"2025-04-25T16:32:36","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T16:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/25\/in-kyiv-we-dont-believe-in-the-fantasy-of-trumps-peace-deal-our-reality-is-more-dead-civilians-nataliya-gumenyuk\/"},"modified":"2025-04-25T16:32:36","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T16:32:36","slug":"in-kyiv-we-dont-believe-in-the-fantasy-of-trumps-peace-deal-our-reality-is-more-dead-civilians-nataliya-gumenyuk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/25\/in-kyiv-we-dont-believe-in-the-fantasy-of-trumps-peace-deal-our-reality-is-more-dead-civilians-nataliya-gumenyuk\/","title":{"rendered":"In Kyiv, we don\u2019t believe in the fantasy of Trump&#8217;s \u2018peace deal\u2019. Our reality is more dead civilians | Nataliya Gumenyuk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the scene of the deadliest attack on our capital this year, I see the war on Ukraine is still very real \u2013 and Putin shows no signs of ending it<\/p>\n<p>War teaches you to believe only in what happens, rather than what is merely said or promised. A day after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/23\/uk-peace-talks-on-ukraine-downgraded-as-marco-rubio-pulls-out\">\u201cpeace talks\u201d in London<\/a>, which the US secretary of state Marco Rubio didn\u2019t even turn up for, Ukrainians were not anxiously waiting for the results of a possible deal, which looked unfeasible anyway. Instead, they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cd7v0lgg18xo\">were counting their dead<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to Ukraine\u2019s air force, in the early hours of Thursday morning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pravda.com.ua\/eng\/news\/2025\/04\/24\/7508953\/\">Russia launched<\/a> 11 Iskander ballistic missiles, 37 KH-101 cruise missiles, six Iskander-K cruise missiles, 12 Kalibr cruise missiles, 4 KH-59\/KH-69 missiles and 145 drones. For Kyiv and Kharkiv residents that night, this was not just a case of reading numbers on a news feed,<strong> <\/strong>but hearing and feeling explosions rock their cities. It turned out to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cd7v0lgg18xo\">the deadliest night<\/a> for the Ukrainian capital this year.<\/p>\n<p>Nataliya Gumenyuk is a Ukrainian journalist and CEO of the Public Interest Journalism Lab<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? 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A day after the \u201cpeace talks\u201d in &#8230; <a title=\"In Kyiv, we don\u2019t believe in the fantasy of Trump&#8217;s \u2018peace deal\u2019. Our reality is more dead civilians | Nataliya Gumenyuk\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/25\/in-kyiv-we-dont-believe-in-the-fantasy-of-trumps-peace-deal-our-reality-is-more-dead-civilians-nataliya-gumenyuk\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about In Kyiv, we don\u2019t believe in the fantasy of Trump&#8217;s \u2018peace deal\u2019. Our reality is more dead civilians | Nataliya Gumenyuk\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}