Don't cede too much for peace at Paris talks, Ukrainians tell president
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Source: Reuters
World News
December 8, 2019 / 12:41 PM / Updated 20 minutes ago
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KIEV (Reuters) - Thousands of people gathered in the center of Kiev on Sunday to send a message to Ukraine’s president, who meets his Russian counterpart on Monday, that Ukrainians will not accept a peace deal at the cost of the country’s independence and sovereignty.
“We are here because we are not satisfied with the peace at any costs ... the peace at the costs of capitulation,” Inna Sovsun, a lawmaker of opposition Golos (Voice) party, told the rally.
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and Vladimir Putin are meeting in Paris alongside the French and German leaders in a renewed effort to end a conflict between Ukrainian troops and Russia-backed forces in eastern Ukraine that has killed more than 13,000 people since 2014.
Zelenskiy, who won a landslide election victory in April promising to bring peace, said this week that his first face-to-face meeting with the Russian president would give Kiev a chance to resolve the more than five-year-old war in the Donbass region.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ukraine-crisis-rally/dont-cede-too-much-for-peace-at-paris-talks-ukrainians-tell-president-idUSKBN1YC0JI?il=0
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