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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview published on Sunday that a group of nations, including members of the United Nations Security Council, should be guarantors of Ukraine's security.
Reuters reported last week that President Vladimir Putin is demanding that Ukraine give up the entire eastern Donbas region, abandon ambitions to join NATO, remain neutral and keep Western troops out of the country, three sources familiar with high-level Kremlin thinking told Reuters.
Lavrov told NBC News' "Meet the Press" that Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump had discussed the issue of a security guarantee for Ukraine and that Putin had raised the issue of the failed 2022 Istanbul talks.
In those discussions, Russia and Ukraine discussed Ukraine's permanent neutrality in exchange for security guarantees from the five permanent members of the UN Security Council: Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States, as well as other countries, according to a copy of a draft agreement seen by Reuters in 2022.
Lavrov told NBC that a group that includes members of the Security Council should guarantee Ukraine's security. The group could also include Germany, Turkey and other countries, Lavrov said.
"And the guarantors would guarantee the security of Ukraine, which should be neutral, which should not be tied to any military bloc and which should be non-nuclear," Lavrov said, according to a transcript of the interview released by the Foreign Ministry.
Lavrov also made it clear that Ukraine's membership in NATO was unacceptable to Russia, that Russia wanted protection for Russian speakers in Ukraine, and that a territorial discussion with Ukraine needed to take place.
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