The United Kingdom, the United States, and their global allies were scheduled to announce new security guarantees for Ukraine on Wednesday.
On Tuesday, NATO leaders stated that Ukraine could join the military alliance in the future, but they refrained from extending an invitation to Kyiv immediately.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called the decision “absurd,” one, arguing that his country needed a firm timeline to help it fight off a Russian invasion that began in February 2022.
According to a British government statement, a G7 declaration will outline “how allies will support Ukraine over the coming years to end the war and deter and respond to any future attack.”
NATO, an alliance based on the principle that an attack on one is an attack on all, has avoided making any concrete military commitments to Ukraine out of fear that doing so would bring the country closer to an all-out war with Russia.
The so-called Budapest Memorandum, in which international powers agreed to keep the country safe in exchange for Kyiv giving up its Soviet-era nuclear arms, has already been trampled by Russia’s invasion. That’s why Ukraine is extremely suspicious of security “assurances” that are not legally binding.
