President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has acknowledged that the post-war safety assure for Ukraine should work like NATO Article 5, which offers for collective safety and defence within the occasion of an assault on one of many member states.

Supply: Zelenskyy at a press convention with European Fee President Ursula von der Leyen

Quote: "It can be crucial that America agrees to work with Europe to offer safety ensures, and we’re grateful to the US and the president for such a sign.

This can be a vital change, however there are not any particulars of the way it will work and what the function of America and Europe can be and what the EU can do. That is our foremost job – we want safety to work in follow like NATO Article 5.

And we take into account EU accession as a part of the safety ensures, and we’ve got heard that America and Putin see it the identical means."

Background:

• US President Donald Trump and European allies have mentioned safety ensures for Ukraine "within the type of Article 5" of the North Atlantic Treaty, however not inside NATO.
• A supply of Ukrainska Pravda confirmed that this was phrased as "non-NATO Article 5 safety ensures".

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