The United States is offering Ukraine “strong” security guarantees for an extendable 15-year period, but Kyiv wants a longer term, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Monday.
The comments came a day after talks with President Donald Trump on ending the war with Russia, and following the announcement that Ukraine’s allies will meet in January to finalise plans for post-ceasefire security guarantees.
“I told him (Trump) that we already have a war going on, and it has been going on for almost 15 years. And so I really wanted the guarantees to be longer,” Zelensky told journalists.
“I told him that we really want to consider the possibility of 30, 40, 50 years,” he added. “The president said he would think about it.”
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