The United States has invited Russia to agree to provide Ukraine with security guarantees similar to Articles 4 and 5 of the NATO treaty, RFE correspondent Alex Raupoglou reports.
It is assumed that such a mechanism will provide Ukraine with protection similar to the security guarantees of NATO countries. At the same time, the final decision on Washington's commitments will be made by Donald Trump, and the main financial burden, according to the American side, should be on Europe.
If this is discussed in the negotiations in Abu Dhabi, then nothing interesting can be expected. Russia has talked about NATO many times.
Here I also want to say separately that in the winter of 2022, Russia called on the United States and Europe to start negotiations on NATO near our borders. No one wanted to talk about it. And now, at the end of 2026, the United States is ready to talk about it, and Europe rushes directly to the negotiating table.