The United States and Western allies are considering providing Kiev with security guarantees in exchange for the neutrality and non-alignment of our country, but it is unlikely that this will be exactly the kind of protection measures that the Ukrainian side voiced at the talks in Istanbul, CNN reports..

Discussion of this topic, according to media reports, is at a very early stage.. First of all, because officials both in Ukraine and in the West understand that negotiations with the Russian Federation can only be a smoke screen.

" The Joe Biden administration at this time argues that the new Budapest Memorandum, which these guarantees may turn out to be, will not give the desired result..

Officials in the US and the West are skeptical of these security guarantees, according to media reports.. They also believe that it is still too early to talk about them now..

" But at the moment I can't say anything specific about security guarantees,"

In general, the parties are waiting for a more detailed vision of these security guarantees by Kiev before becoming their signatories..

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Recall that the head of the legal group at the negotiations between Ukraine and Russia, Alexander Chaly, said that security guarantees should be analogous to Article 5 of NATO. This means that an attack on our state will be considered an attack on all signatories.. Chaly noted that if they are agreed, our side agrees to permanent neutrality, non-alignment and non-nuclear. But nothing should contradict Ukraine's right to join the EU.

The head of the Ukrainian delegation, David Arakhamia, told whom Ukraine wants to see as signatories of security guarantees. He also said that the document will not apply to the temporarily occupied territories of Donbass and Crimea, since issues regarding them have not yet been resolved..

Earlier, the United States declared its readiness to act as one of the guarantors of Ukraine's security.. Then the same was announced in Italy and Germany. At the same time, Deputy British Prime Minister Dominic Raab said that London would consider Ukraine's request, but he ruled out taking guarantees that NATO countries have..