“Failing immediate NATO membership, Ukraine needs at minimum the following guarantees: a strong and unrestricted army and arms production capacity; integration into the European defence industry; membership in the European Union; European support in weapons, manpower, and air defence; and, inevitably, an American backstop — the guarantee that the United States would prevent any Russian attack”

Leo Litra, Senior Research Fellow at New Europe Center, Visiting Fellow at ECFR, stated in his interview for La Libre.

The article analyzes the limits of the current the U.S. talks with Russia, arguing that expectations of meaningful progress are misplaced and that pressure on Ukraine to make territorial concessions ignores both political reality in Kyiv and Russia’s lack of interest in peace.

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