Ukraine is ready to discuss and develop a document that will fix Ukraine's non-aligned nature and its non-nuclear status. But only on the terms of real security guarantees, and not on the level of the discredited Budapest Memorandum. President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky stated this in an interview with Russian media..

“Security guarantees and neutrality, the non-nuclear status of our state. We are ready to go. This is the most important point. This was the first point of principle for the Russian Federation, as far as I remember.. And as far as I remember, they started a war because of this... Therefore, this item is a point of security guarantees for Ukraine. And since they say that this is also for them [security guarantees], it is clear to me, and it is being discussed. It is deeply worked out, but I am interested that it should not be another piece of paper a la the Budapest Memorandum and so on.. Therefore, we are interested in this paper turning into a serious agreement that will be signed…,” Zelensky said..

The president of our country also reminded about the sharp deterioration in attitudes towards the Russians and the Russian Federation after its attack on Ukraine.

“Despite the fact that I am the president and should be a fairly pragmatic person, the attitude after the 24th has worsened. Worsened very much. Lost the emotional component of the relationship to the Russian Federation, to the people. Even to the people. Despite the fact that I understand intellectually that there are many people in Russia who support Ukraine. I am grateful to them, because without word of mouth, without the work of honest journalism, without the inner potential of a Russian person who is for justice and for Ukraine... And yes, let him be, first of all, for himself - which means that he will be for Ukraine. Because a war on our territory will not bring anything good to this Russian person if he is aware of. The attitude of the entire population has deteriorated,” the President said..

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" We will not sit down at the table at all if we talk about some kind of “demilitarization”, some kind of “denazification”. For me, these are completely incomprehensible things,” Zelensky said..

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In an interview with Suspilny, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said: “The final compromises in the negotiations between Ukraine and Russia will be decided by an all-Ukrainian referendum.. This concerns the issues of security guarantees, the temporarily occupied territories of Donbass and Crimea.”.

What this statement of the president can mean and why there will most likely not be a referendum, Mikhail Lebed explains in the article “Peace Treaty Based on the Results of the Referendum: Why It Will Not Happen”.