Flag of UkraineMOSCOW, March 9 Deputy Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Igor Zhovkva said that Kyiv is ready to discuss the country's neutral status if it is provided with security guarantees, Bloomberg reports on Wednesday. The day before, Mikhail Podolyak, adviser to the head of the office of the President of Ukraine, also revealed the conditions under which Kyiv will discuss the issues of renunciation of NATO membership, according to him, security guarantees are needed.< img src="/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/0c9a4a4cf141d661bece8e4f8ebfafbe.jpg" />Zelensky asked the West to transfer planes to Ukraine as soon as possible»Ukraine is ready to discuss the Russian demand for neutrality if it is provided with security guarantees, but it will not surrender any one inch of «territory,» Zhovkva's words are quoted on the agency's website. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called it the goal of «protecting people who have been subjected to mockery, genocide by the Kiev regime.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the Armed Forces strike only at the military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops, nothing threatens the civilian population. With the support of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive. But the occupation of Ukraine is out of the question, the President of Russia emphasized.
