Words about the “Swedish” or “Austrian” models of Ukraine’s state neutrality that are heard from Russia are the Kremlin’s desire to impose its own vision of what Ukraine should be like. But official Kyiv has an understanding of what security guarantees should be, he said. LIGA.net adviser to the head of the President’s Office Mykhailo Podolyak.
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“Ukraine is now in a state of direct war with the Russian Federation. Therefore, the model can only be “Ukrainian”, and only about legally verified security guarantees. And no other models or options. <...> Ukraine wants to have a really powerful pool of allies with clearly defined security guarantees,” he stressed.
Then Podolyak briefly explained what this means.
First, there must be absolute security guarantees: effective, not protocol or Budapest.
“And this means that the signatories of the guarantees do not stand aside in the event of an attack on Ukraine, as they do today, but take an active part on the side of Ukraine in the conflict, and officially provide us with the immediate supply of the necessary volume of weapons,” the adviser to the head of the Presidential Office added.
Secondly, Ukraine no longer intends to depend on bureaucratic procedures that allow or do not allow “closing the sky” from the same cruise missiles.
“We need direct and tough guarantees that the sky will definitely be closed,” he said.
- Russian negotiators and Kremlin speaker Peskov previously told their propaganda media that Ukraine allegedly offers an “Austrian” or “Swedish” version of neutrality at meetings: “a demilitarized state with its own army and navy.” According to Peskov, “the idea of Ukraine as a demilitarized country with its own army, following the example of Austria or Sweden, can be seen as a compromise.”
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