Kiev: President Volodymyr Zelensky's chief of staff announced that Kyiv and Washington began negotiations on Thursday to provide security guarantees for Ukraine as a follow-up to commitments made by G7 nations at the NATO summit last month.

In light of Russia's 17-month invasion of Ukraine, Ukraine was assured that the Group of Seven (G7) would create and uphold security guarantees and assist in strengthening its military.

The Ukrainian government views the negotiations as a transitional phase before it joins the military alliance of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation. NATO leaders gave Ukraine their support at the summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, but they ruled out membership until the conflict with Russia was over.

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Andriy Yermak, the chief of staff to the president, stated in a Telegram message that the agreement reached in Vilnius would serve as "the basis for working out corresponding bilateral agreements."

It is significant that the United States, who is also our main strategic ally, was the first nation with which Ukraine began this process, according to Yermak. We will develop a successful model for other partners through this procedure.

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The G7 members agreed that each country would negotiate its own agreements.
Ukraine's position on the guarantees, according to Yermak, has been reaffirmed. These guarantees "will strengthen Ukraine along the path to future membership in the Euro-Atlantic community, including NATO and the European Union."

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Although Yermak did not specify the location or participants in the talks, the image that accompanied his post showed him seated at a table in what appeared to be the Ukrainian president's office in the nation's capital Kyiv.