Kira Rudik: Ukraine needs security guarantees

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00:00And in terms of what the terms of the deal might be, I mean, Moscow's saying it's not

00:05prepared to give up any land. President Trump has already said that Ukraine's not going

00:11to be joining NATO. I mean, what concessions might you expect President Trump to extract

00:16from the Russians?

00:17Well, for us, it's not even about concessions. But the main thing that should come to make

00:24any kind of deal is the security guarantee. This is the baseline. And this is absolutely

00:30critical. This is why we are not taking seriously any discussions right now, because they are

00:36not based on the security guarantees that are needed.

00:39Tom, we here in Ukraine have been in so-called ceasefire deal with Russia since 2014. And

00:46I can tell you that there was not a single day when Russia would honor this deal and

00:51would not be attacking our soldiers at the front line. So right now, the question that

00:57Ukrainian people are asking is how this new deal will be any different. And that's why

01:03we need an understanding of how it will be secured and basically who or what in the whole

01:09world can make sure that Putin will keep his part of the bargain. As of right now, we have

01:15not seen any proposals that would answer this simple particular question.