Russia and European powers, anxious to end a protracted military conflict in eastern Ukraine, on Wednesday welcomed the new accord between Ukraine and Russia-backed separatists but many in Ukraine dismissed it as a capitulation to Russia.
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Activists of nationalist parties and movements protest in front of The Presidential Office on Oct. 1, 2019, in Kyiv against the just-approved ultimate edition of the so-called Steinmeier Formula regulating possible local elections in Russian-occupied Donbas as part of the Minsk peace settlement.
