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Don't Cede Too Much for Peace at Paris Talks, Ukrainians Tell President

Reuters

   KYIV - Thousands of people gathered in the center of Kyiv 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 Kyiv a chance to resolve the more than
   five-year-old war in the Donbas region.

   But many Ukrainians are concerned over a possible compromise with
   Russia, which they see as an aggressor seeking to restore the Kremlin's
   influence over the former Soviet republic and ruin Ukraine's aspiration
   to closer European ties.

   The Ukrainian government wants to agree with Moscow on a sustainable
   cease-fire in Donbas, the exchange of all prisoners, and a timeline for
   the withdrawal of all illegal armed forces from regions under the
   control of Russia-backed separatists.
   

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