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Ukraine is to start consultations with the United States this week on providing security guarantees for Kyiv pending the completion of the process of joining Nato, a senior Ukrainian official said on Sunday.
The talks, announced by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s chief of staff, are a follow-up on pledges issued by the G7 group of advanced countries after this month’s Nato summit in Lithuania to draw up and honour security guarantees.
“We are starting talks with the United States (this) week,” Andriy Yermak wrote on the Telegram messaging app.
“Security guarantees for Ukraine will be concrete, long-term obligations ensuring Ukraine’s capacity to defeat and restrain Russian aggression in the future. These will be clearly drafted formats and mechanisms of support.”
Yermak said the guarantees “will be in effect until Ukraine secures Nato membership.”
The Western Alliance’s Vilnius summit offered support to Ukraine in countering Russia’s 17-month-old invasion and individual countries pledged new weapons, but no date for Ukrainian membership was set as long as the war continues.
Members of the G7 agreed for each nation to negotiate agreements to provide security guarantees and help Ukraine bolster its military.
In his comments, Yermak said more than 10 other countries had joined the G7 declaration and Ukraine was negotiating terms of future guarantees with each of them.
This whole article is about the period until UA can join NATO. It says the US will guarantee Ukraine’s integrity even outside NATO, basically creating a NATO for them until they can join the real one.
Point is, Ukraine will be a de facto NATO member without having to push it past Turkey and Hungary, or having to end the war first.
Strong disagree. NATO has Article 5, which would provide for mutual defense. The USA will give Ukraine weapons and as much help as they possibly can to win the war, but they will not join Ukraine as a participant in hostilities. The USA can’t guarantee Ukraine’s territorial integrity unless it’s willing to send fighters which is the exact thing the USA is avoiding right now. It’s deliberately limiting the scope of help so that they don’t start a nuclear war with Russia. And these guarantees are more of a “you can eventually join” and “we’ll give you as much information as we gather and any weapons we can afford, but you have to fight” than a NATO for Ukraine.