US EditionZelenskyy offers to drop NATO bid for security guarantees but rejects US push to cede territory
Zelensky offered to forgo NATO membership for legally binding bilateral security guarantees from the US, Europe, Canada, and Japan to deter future Russian attacks.
- On Dec 14, President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine relinquished its ambition to join NATO in exchange for Western security guarantees ahead of talks in Berlin.
- Seeking protection, Kyiv is asking for Article 5-like bilateral guarantees from the U.S. and security guarantees from European colleagues, Canada, and Japan to prevent another Russian invasion.
- U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner arrived in Berlin as German Chancellor Friedrich Merz hosts summit meetings on Dec 14 and Dec 15 to finalise a U.S.-backed peace plan.
- The shift constitutes a major policy change that abandons Ukraine's constitutional NATO ambition and aligns with draft US-backed proposals involving territorial concessions and armed forces limits.
- Looking ahead, Zelensky said guarantees must be confirmed by the U.S. Congress as Kyiv and European partners recently submitted revisions to the U.S.-backed peace framework.
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Z elenskyy ready to drop bid to join NATO
BERLIN — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Sunday voiced readiness to drop his country's bid to join NATO in exchange for Western security guarantees, but rejected the U.S. push for ceding territory to Russia as he held talks with U.S.…
The leader insists: "I will not withdraw from the territories, first the truce" . In Berlin the meeting with Merz and the U.S. negotiators, Kushner and Witkoff . Today they will be joined by other leaders . Ukraine is ready to renounce to join NATO provided that Americans and Europeans engage in security guarantees . This is the compromise that the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, put on the negotiating table just before meeting in Berli…
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