Russia, Ukraine to hold 1st major peace summit in years next week.
will hold peace talks at a summit in Paris on Monday, the first time in three years there have been high-level talks between the two countries focused on ending the war in eastern Ukraine.
In this Nov. 2, 2019, file photo, a Ukrainian serviceman walks up from a trench at the new line of contact in Zolote, Luhansk region, eastern Ukraine.Major fighting in eastern Ukraine has been halted since February 2015 when the sides accepted the so-called"Minsk Agreements." But shellings and exchanges of fire along the front line have never fully stopped as the Ukrainian army and Russian-backed rebels are dug into their trenches.
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko in Sochi, Russia, on Dec. 7, 2019. The dilemma is at the heart of what is preventing Ukraine and Russia from resolving the war. Russia’s objective has been for Ukraine to reincorporate the separatist regions as part of a federation, giving them broad autonomy. In practice, that would mean leaving two Russian puppet regions in Ukraine, giving Moscow a permanent lever to block the country from joining NATO or the European Union.
Ukrainian servicemen patrol near the town of Avdiivka on the front line with Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine on Nov. 28, 2019. Ukrainian officials have publicly said if the summit shows Russia is unwilling to make any genuine steps toward a final end to the conflict, they will essentially abandon the rebel areas as a lost cause and leave them to Russia.Andriy Yermak, a top aide of Zelenskiy, told an audience at a Chatham House event in London this week that if Ukraine finds Russia will not take steps toward fulfilling the Minsk agreements we’ll be"building a wall" around Donbass.
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