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Thousands march against ‘capitulation’
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KYIV, Oct. 14 - Thousands of Ukrainians marched in Kyiv on Monday, decrying as "capitulation" a mooted pullback of troops fighting Moscow-backed separatists in the east and calling for victory in the five-year war, AFP reported.

The protesters, many veterans of the conflict in eastern Ukraine, paraded through the centre of the capital with flares burning, singing the national anthem and chanting slogans against President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.

It was the second of two marches in Kyiv on Monday, a national holiday designated "Defenders Day.” Demonstrators later gathered on Kyiv's Independence Square.

Police said abound 12,000 people participated in the march, and some 6,000 in the earlier event.

Protesters chanted "No to capitulation!", "Ukraine above all" and "Russian language today, Russian tanks tomorrow.”

Some 10,000 people including Ukraine's former president Petro Poroshenko had demonstrated earlier this month against a plan for broader autonomy for separatist territories ahead of a high-stakes summit with Russian leader Vladimir Putin.

Zelenskiy on Monday visited troops in the war-ravaged eastern Donetsk region and met commanders and servicemen.

He called the 2014 Crimea annexation and the conflict with separatists Ukraine's "moments of truth".
Zelenskiy said in a speech that a nation faced two choices in such moments, "to surrender and disappear from the face of the Earth, or to be born the second time."

He is pushing for Western-mediated talks with Putin in Paris in an effort to revive a stalled peace process.
But those efforts have stalled as Kyiv forces and separatist fighters have so far failed to pull back troops along the frontline.

In the run-up to the summit, negotiators agreed a roadmap that envisages special status for separatist territories if they conduct free and fair elections under the Ukrainian constitution.

But critics say the proposal favors Russia.

Protesters in Kyiv said they saw any summit with Putin as a loss for Ukraine.

"Already I feel that we are giving up our national interests," said writer Nataliya Tysovska.

"If we pull back our troops again there will be a giant 'grey' zone that will be occupied by someone else."

"The current government is taking steps that could lead to the capitulation of Ukraine as a whole," Oleksiy Kaida, deputy head of the Svoboda nationalist party, told AFP.

"We have to get back our lands at any price: not just Donbas but also Crimea," he said. (afp/ez)




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