Negotiations on security guarantees for Ukraine are underway with a number of countries. However, there are no final agreements yet. No country has yet formalized its willingness to become our country's security guarantor. More specifics should be expected in 7-10 days.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said this in an interview with Ukrainian online media.
“So far we have not received a specific list of those guarantees or those countries that are willing to fully engage for us. We don't need to have 40 countries that are ready on command, on a call, or on an agreement to get involved and fight for Ukraine. We need serious players who are ready for anything. We need a range of states that are ready to provide any weapons within 24 hours,” the Head of State said.
He stressed that Ukraine needs certain countries on which the sanctions policy really depends and that all these sanctions should be imposed “the first second we heard the threat from the russian federation.”
The president specified that this is not about a single list of guarantees for every guarantor country.
“Different countries will be able to provide different guarantees... So far we haven't concluded this whole story because there has been no meeting with us of all the counselors except the russian federation. We want to meet with all of them, they said they were ready to talk about it,” Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.
He hopes that a meeting with the counselors of the guarantor countries can take place any time soon.
“Only when that happens with the understanding that we have security guarantees, we can continue this first case called “Security Guarantees for Ukraine, which provides for non-alignment in the military bloc,” Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.
General security guarantees for Ukraine are an alternative to Ukraine's membership in NATO and one of the conditions of the Ukrainian delegation in negotiations with russia. Security guarantees mean that Ukraine would be ready to secure its status as a non-nuclear and non-aligned country in the form of permanent neutrality if a number of states - similar to NATO Article 5 - legally guarantee the immediate provision of military assistance, weapons and closing of the sky over Ukraine in case of military aggression, attack or any operation against it.
A number of countries have announced their willingness to become security guarantors for Ukraine.