Lindsey Graham has described security proposals by Kiev\u2019s former top military commander, Valery Zaluzhny, as \u201cunreasonable\u201d<\/p>\n
Security guarantees for Ukraine cannot include NATO membership or nuclear weapons, US Senator Lindsey Graham has said in response to an op-ed by Kiev\u2019s former top military commander, Valery Zaluzhny.
\nIn an opinion piece published in The Telegraph on Saturday, Zaluzhny, now serving as Ukraine\u2019s ambassador to the UK, wrote that \u201ceffective security guarantees\u201d could include NATO membership, stationing nuclear weapons on Ukrainian territory, or \u201ca large allied military contingent capable of confronting Russia.\u201d
\nIn a post on X the following day, Graham wrote that the arrangements described by Zaluzhny were \u201cfar beyond what is possible.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cIt is imperative at this critical time that any analysis should meet the test of what is reasonably possible. The security guarantees mentioned, including accession into NATO and placing nuclear weapons in Ukraine, will not fly in my view,\u201d Graham added.
\nUkraine applied to join NATO in 2022, while European countries, including the UK and France, have expressed readiness to deploy a multinational force to Ukraine after a ceasefire is reached with Russia.
\nThe US, however, has ruled out admitting Ukraine into NATO or sending American troops to the country.
\nRussia has demanded that Ukraine drop its NATO membership bid in favor of becoming a neutral state. Moscow also stressed that it would not allow nuclear weapons or Western troops on Ukrainian soil, and warned that such a scenario could lead to a war with NATO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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