Brussels: NATO Military Chiefs discussed on Wednesday the details of the possible security guarantees for Ukraine, promoting the gust of global diplomacy with the aim of negotiating the end of the Russian war.
NATO military leaders had a “great and sincere discussion” during a videoconference on the results of recent conversations about the conflict in Ukraine, the president of the Military Committee of the Alliance said on Wednesday.
“In #ukraine, we confirm our support. Priority remains a fair, credible and lasting peace,” Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone wrote in a publication on the Social Network Platform X.
Meanwhile, a small group of military leaders continues discussions in Washington to solve options for security guarantees for Ukraine, said a western official. Reuters On Wednesday, shortly after a larger virtual meeting. The source said that the American general Dan Caine, president of the chiefs of the Joint Chiefs, was conducting the conversations that also involved around half a dozen other bosses of defense of NATO.
Russia says that conversations about security guarantees should be partly
The western official said there were still no results since the issue of security guarantees had not been discussed in detail in a videoconferencing of all NATO defense chiefs in the day.
The source expected more meetings of the defense leaders in the broadest format, to discuss any option in the smallest group.
A time frame for discussions has not been established, since the final decision will be with political leaders, said the official.
Few details leaked at the Virtual Meeting of Military Chiefs of the 32 NATO member countries. But on Tuesday night, Dan Caine held conversations with European military leaders about the “best options for a possible Ukraine Peace Agreement,” said a defense official of the United States. AFP
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, took the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and European leaders to the White House on Monday, three days after his historical meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska.
Trump, for a long time, a fierce critic of the billions of dollars in the support of the United States to Ukraine since Russia invaded in 2022, said previously that European nations were “willing to put people on the ground” to ensure any agreement. He ruled out sending US troops, but suggested that he would provide air support.
But while Trump said Putin had agreed to meet with Zelensky and accept some Western security guarantees for Ukraine, kyiv and Western capitals have responded cautiously, since many of the details remain lazy.
Russia wants
Russia said Wednesday that it had to be part of any discussion about security guarantees for Ukraine and minimized the probability of an imminent summit with Zelensky, temple waiting for a quick peace agreement.
Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned that “seriously discussing security guarantees without the Russian Federation is a utopia, a path to anywhere.”
Lavrov also doubted an imminent meeting between the jury enemies, saying that any summit between Putin and Zelensky “must be prepared in the most meticulous way” so that it does not lead to a “deterioration” of the situation that surrounds the conflict.
Posted in Dawn, August 21, 2025
