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One thousand twenty-fifth day. Trump remains hopeful of achieving a ceasefire in Ukraine on the first day of his term, but Putin could be an obstacle

Since February 24, 2022, Meduza has been broadcasting live about the Russian-Ukrainian war. Our chronicle is published once a day, and in it we dwell in detail on several key stories that are affecting the course of the war right now. We also publish your letters in these materials, because we are sure that we need to continue talking about the war. Please share your personal war stories with us. Find the feedback form at the end of this article. You can read the previous day's review here .

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US President-elect Donald Trump, a month after the election, remains “serious” about achieving a ceasefire in Ukraine from the first day he took office, sources tell NBC News.

Trump's national security team has held discussions with the current White House administration and Ukrainian leaders about ways to end the war, according to multiple NBC sources.

“Trump is really serious about getting a ceasefire from day one,” says one source.

Trump's proposed candidate for the post of special envoy for Ukraine and Russia, Keith Kellogg, said in an interview with Fox News on December 13 that he “sincerely believes” that the war will end “in the next few months.” According to him, Trump is the only one who can do this. Asked if it was possible that Trump would invite Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky and Russian President Vladimir Putin to Washington for talks, Kellogg said he would not be surprised and “of course he [Trump] could do it.”

According to NBC's interlocutors, Trump's advisers have not yet presented a concrete peace plan to Kyiv. One source says Joe Biden's national security adviser Jake Sullivan has had some conversations with his successor Mike Walz, but they were about sharing information rather than specific strategies to end the war.

Trump regularly promises to end the conflict (and calls losses on both sides “madness”), but in his public comments, as NBC News notes, he gives mixed signals: he calls on Russia to make peace and admits that the United States may reduce military aid to Ukraine or again introduce restrictions on Kiev's use of long-range American missiles. However, it remains unclear whether he will be able to convince Vladimir Putin to stop hostilities, writes NBC.

And if the atmosphere in the interaction of Ukrainians with the new Trump team is described by NBC sources as “positive,” then the posts of the president-elect himself, as several interlocutors say, indicate that he considers Putin to be the problem, not Ukraine. “There is a feeling that Trump himself understands that Ukrainians are not an obstacle to peace,” an NBC source says.

War through the eyes of Meduza readers

Tatyana (Bucha) We froze. We all froze. At first they were very scared, they couldn’t breathe, they couldn’t believe it. It took us a long time to get used to it, we partially adapted, but most of our psyche simply froze. Is it possible to adapt to war?

You wait all the time for something to arrive, you can’t help but wait. You read the news all the time, as if you might miss something important, on which your life depends, what if you don’t have time to leave on time, if anything... All the time you come back to the fact that there is a war in the country, the correction for it is eclipsing the sun.

Before the war, friends saved up money, did a project with a designer, but now they can’t renovate their apartment, even though the old renovation is depressing them - it’s war! Don't waste money on repairs! What if you urgently need to leave or treat someone?

You can't live life to the fullest - there's war! There are many people who don’t like the fact that someone laughs, dances, listens to music - we now have a lot of things “out of time” (out of time).

Many people fight because of the Russian language. Due to different views on the vision of the end of the war - a treaty or victory...

The lights are turned off - it becomes so much more difficult and depressing, running between “They turned it on! Urgently wash, wash, cook, clean, charge, fill thermoses, switch the Internet!” and “Turned off! We switch the Internet, turn on the lamps, grit our teeth and wait”...

We wish each other peaceful skies every day and do not believe what we say.

You cannot adapt to war. It seems that it is possible, but it is not.

That's why we just left. It’s our third day in Europe and we can’t seem to get enough fresh air. Silence, sun, planes fly, people just live.

Previously, it seemed to me that we had no stability. But it turns out that before the war she was...

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