Activists salute and shout slogans outside Ukrainian President office in Kiev on October 29, 2019, as they protest against withdrawal of Ukrainain forces in Zolote-4 area, Lugansk region. - The Ukrainian army and Moscow-backed separatists said on OCtober 29, 2019 they had begun to withdraw their troops from a key area in the war-torn east ahead of a high-stakes summit with Russia. The long-awaited pullback is a precondition for the first face-to-face talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky, to be mediated by the leaders of France and Germany in so-called talks called the "Normandy Summit". (Photo by Sergei SUPINSKY / AFP)