{"id":1754,"date":"2022-02-25T00:47:38","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T00:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tahrir2day.com\/news\/2022\/02\/25\/ukraine-ready-to-discuss-neutrality-zelensky-says\/"},"modified":"2022-02-25T00:47:38","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T00:47:38","slug":"ukraine-ready-to-discuss-neutrality-zelensky-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tahrir2day.com\/news\/2022\/02\/25\/ukraine-ready-to-discuss-neutrality-zelensky-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine ready to discuss neutrality, Zelensky says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2022.02\/thumbnail\/621823582030276be9164126.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div >\n<p>Accusing the West of leaving Ukraine to face Moscow alone, President Volodymyr Zelensky said Friday he was not afraid to negotiate about ending the Russian <em>\u201cinvasion,\u201d<\/em> but would need security guarantees to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in the early hours of the morning from Kiev, Zelensky said he had reached out to <em>\u201cpartners\u201d<\/em> in the West to tell them Ukraine\u2019s fate was at stake.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI asked them \u2013 are you with us?\u201d<\/em> Zelensky said. <em>\u201cThey answered that they are with us, but they don\u2019t want to take us into the alliance. I\u2019ve asked 27 leaders of Europe, if Ukraine will be in NATO, I\u2019ve asked them directly\u00a0\u2014 all are afraid and did not respond\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe were left by ourselves. Who is ready to go to war for us? Honestly, I don\u2019t see anybody. Who is ready to give Ukraine guarantees of NATO membership? Honestly, everybody is afraid,\u201d<\/em> the Ukrainian president added.<\/p>\n<p>Russia sent troops into Ukraine on Thursday, with President Vladimir Putin declaring a special military operation to <em>\u201cdemilitarize and de-nazify\u201d<\/em> Ukraine. Moscow has since told Kiev that it would consider negotiating with the Zelensky government if it agrees to discuss neutral status for the country, among other things.<\/p>\n<p>In an address on Friday, Zelensky said that he is open to talk about Ukraine\u2019s potential neutral status, but insisted that his country needs third party guarantees.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe are not not afraid of Russia, we are not afraid to talk with Russia, talk about everything: security guarantees for our country and a neutral status. But we are not in NATO now \u2013 what security guarantees will we have? Which countries will give them?\u201d<\/em> he said, before adding that there should be talks that could bring an end to the Russian military offensive.<\/p>\n<p>Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday that <em>\u201cneutral status and rejection of hosting [offensive] weapons systems\u201d<\/em> are Putin\u2019s <em>\u201cred lines\u201d<\/em> for Ukraine and that the ball was now in Kiev&#8217;s court.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Accusing the West of leaving Ukraine to face Moscow alone, President Volodymyr Zelensky said Friday he was not afraid to negotiate about ending the Russian \u201cinvasion,\u201d but would need security guarantees to do so. 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