内容摘要：An Airbus A330 MRTT tanker and transport aircraft is being built at the Airbus manufacturing plant in Getafe, central Spain, on March 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

An Airbus A330 MRTT tanker and transport aircraft is being built at the Airbus manufacturing plant in Getafe, central Spain, on March 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

A man walks in a yard of a residential building destroyed by a Russian strike in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Thursday, May 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Kateryna Klochko)A rescuer works on a site of a residential building destroyed by a Russian strike in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Thursday, May 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Kateryna Klochko)

A rescuer works on a site of a residential building destroyed by a Russian strike in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Thursday, May 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Kateryna Klochko)University lecturer Natalia Vysotska, 74, said she wasn’t familiar with the details of the agreement but remained cautiously optimistic.“I don’t know what the terms are — they may not be favorable for Ukraine at all. Still, if it was signed, our experts must have weighed the pros and cons. I hope it will be beneficial.”

Others shared a more skeptical view. Iryna Vasylevska, a 37-year-old Kyiv resident, expressed frustration and disillusionment with the broader implications of the deal.She told the AP she feels terrible that “our land is just a bargaining chip for the rest of the world and that we do not have our own full protection, but rely on someone.”

“My vision is that instead of strengthening ourselves, we continue to give it all away. I feel sorry for our land and for our people,” she said.

Reaction to the signing was generally muted in Moscow on Wednesday, a holiday in Russia. But the deputy chair of Russia’s National Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, said that Trump had forced Ukraine to effectively “pay” for American military aid with its mineral resources.. Kyiv has pressed for a longer-term ceasefire.

In this photo provided by Ukraine’s 93rd Kholodnyi Yar Separate Mechanized Brigade press service, a man waits to hear about his missing wife as rescuers clear the rubble of a multi-storey residential building destroyed a day before by a Russian airstrike, in Kostiantynivka, Ukraine, on Thursday, May 8, 2025. (Iryna Rybakova/Ukraine’s 93rd Mechanized Brigade via AP)In this photo provided by Ukraine’s 93rd Kholodnyi Yar Separate Mechanized Brigade press service, a man waits to hear about his missing wife as rescuers clear the rubble of a multi-storey residential building destroyed a day before by a Russian airstrike, in Kostiantynivka, Ukraine, on Thursday, May 8, 2025. (Iryna Rybakova/Ukraine’s 93rd Mechanized Brigade via AP)

Meanwhile at the Kremlin, Putin held talks with, whom the Russian leader earlier described as Moscow’s “main guest” at Friday’s Victory Day festivities. In the evening, Putin hosted Xi and