In this Sunday, Dec. 8, 2019 photo, a Ukrainian soldier looks through binoculars in the front line position, in the town of Novoluhanske in the Donetsk region, Ukraine. A long-awaited summit in Paris on Monday aims to find a way to end the war in eastern Ukraine, a conflict that after five years and 14,000 lives lost has emboldened the Kremlin and reshaped European geopolitics. (AP Photo/Vitali Komar)