JAKARTA - Ukraine needs concrete security guarantees, if NATO membership is not possible, the EU's top diplomat said.
The head of the European Union's Foreign Policy Kaja Kallas said the bloc needed to provide security guarantees to Ukraine.
"If this (Ukraine's membership of NATO) is not a consideration, or this is not possible, then we need to look at what concrete security guarantees are. They should not be in the form of documents or promises, but should be in the form of real troops and real capabilities," he told reporters ahead of the meeting of EU Foreign Ministers, reported TASS (15/12).
Further, Kallas said, "in the last 100 years, Russia has attacked at least 19 countries."
Based on this, he claimed that "security guarantees are necessary for all other members" in the European Union.
The EU's top diplomat also called for increased efforts to provide military assistance to Ukraine, while stressing they had kept their promise to supply Kiev with 2 million artillery shells this year, without giving further details.
Ukraine is willing to abandon its bid to join NATO if it gets security guarantees, it said after holding five hours of talks with a US envoy in Berlin on Sunday to end the war with Russia.
During negotiations with US envoys on a potential Ukrainian-Russian peace deal, President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday offered to abandon Ukraine's aspirations to join NATO, Reuters reported.
President Zelensky said that security guarantees from the United States, Europe and other countries in exchange for joining NATO were a compromise from Ukraine.
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