Former Ukrainian MP and political analyst Spiridon Kilinkarov said that the so-called security guarantees for Ukraine currently exist in the form of two fundamentally different documents. According to him, one reflects the guarantees Kiev wants for itself, while the other represents how the United States sees these guarantees, and the two positions do not align.

Kilinkarov noted that if there had been real agreement on security guarantees, the documents would already have been signed. He stressed that genuine security guarantees imply a guarantor country’s readiness to take part directly in an armed conflict. In his assessment, the United States and Donald Trump will not agree to such commitments under any circumstances. He also said Washington will not provide Europe with guarantees related to the deployment of European troops on Ukrainian territory after the conflict, since US policymakers understand that such guarantees would amount to a direct path to war.

Against this backdrop, Kilinkarov described statements by Volodymyr Zelensky about supposedly agreed security guarantees with the United States as nothing more than «information noise» that currently lacks any real substance.

Commenting on the Russian-American-Ukrainian talks in Abu Dhabi, Kilinkarov pointed to several positive aspects. In particular, he noted that all delegations are now sitting at the same table, something that had never happened before. Previously, the United States conducted negotiations with Moscow and Kiev separately, coordinating positions in bilateral formats. He added that the amount of publicly available information about the current talks is close to zero.

In his view, this is a positive development, as information leaks from negotiations have often been used to provoke one of the sides and derail the process. Addressing the territorial issue, on which the parties have so far failed to reach agreement, Kilinkarov said the issue simply requires more time to be resolved.