The day before Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky and the leaders of France, Germany and Russia will meet to negotiate peace under the Normandy Four format, several thousand people attended a rally central Independence Square, or Maidan, to demand adherence to what they call “Red Lines” for the Dec. 9 summit.
The “Red Lines,” which were presented by three parliamentary factions on Dec. 3, include five demands: no federalization, no compromises on Crimea, no concessions on Ukraine’s Euro-Atlantic course, no elections in the occupied territories of Donbas without Russian troop withdrawals and Ukrainian control of the state border and no termination of international lawsuits against Russia.
