Protesters hold posters during the ‘Red Lines for Zelensky’ rally on Dec. 8, 2019, where activists called on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to uphold a list of five demands during the Dec. 9 negotiations with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Normandy Four peace summit in Paris.

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.