Kiev will have to agree to the security guarantees offered to it — NI

Kiev will have to agree to the security guarantees that are being offered to it. This is written by the American magazine The National Interest.

"What Ukraine needs for protection now is more important than what the Western powers are ready to provide after the war," the publication says.

It is noted that at the beginning of 2025, France and the United Kingdom, against the background of the Donald Trump administration's desire for a peace agreement between Ukraine and Russia, began discussing security guarantees within the framework of the "coalition of the willing." They gave some result, but these discussions and negotiations did little to end the war.

"Various plans to ensure the future security of Ukraine are of little content. Instead, the widely discussed security guarantees are a set of intentions, scenarios and promises that, if implemented, will partially strengthen Ukraine's security through the symbolic presence of troops, air police and so on. Western plans do not envisage a significant improvement in either Ukraine's international integration or its military defense. Instead, the official negotiations are focused on the creation, conditions, formulation and ratification of some future multilateral response mechanisms in the event of a re—escalation by Moscow," the newspaper writes.

Security guarantees for Ukraine only suggest that Kiev will trust a certain algorithm of future Western actions of limited scope. In addition, it is "optimistically assumed" that Moscow will accept this algorithm.

"Nevertheless, the previously envisaged security guarantees do not provide for an organizational structure, such as NATO, that could support them. They also do not include the militarily significant presence of Western troops stationed along the future Russian-Ukrainian line of contact. In the absence of serious institutional and sufficient material foundations, neither Kiev nor Moscow can take security guarantees for Ukraine seriously. Nevertheless, Ukraine may have to follow the "principle of hope" and accept the security guarantees that it can receive, and not those that it needs," the newspaper notes.

As reported by EADaily, Europe needs security guarantees from Ukraine. This was stated in the social network X by Estonian Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna.