Zelensky needs a president: Kiev has security guarantees, including from Moscow

According to the president, “clear and impermissible” security guarantees are needed, and Russia should be among the countries that should have such guarantees.

Kiev needs clear security guarantees from the West, Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy said at a press conference following talks with the leaders of Poland and Lithuania, Andrzej Duda and Gitanas Nauseda, in Kiev. Translation led RBC.

“Ukraine needs security guarantees – clear, cases, already now. <...> I think that Russia should be among the countries providing security guarantees for Ukraine,” Zelensky said.

Vladimir Putin to sit down at the negotiating table.

On February 17, Zelensky said that the same system of security guarantees that NATO countries receive is needed, and the documents must first be signed by the United States and Russia. According to the statement, such a requirement is justified by the fact that at the moment Ukraine is not a member of any security union and is forced to “defend itself”.