WASHINGTON, Mar 30The United States is not yet ready to talk about any specifics in the context of providing possible security guarantees to Ukraine, White House Communications Director Kate Bedingfield told reporters on Wednesday. «We are in constant contact with the Ukrainian side about ensuring the security and sovereignty of Ukraine. Nevertheless, we are not yet ready to announce anything concrete about the possibility of becoming security guarantors for Ukraine,» Bedingfield said during a briefing. Earlier, David Arakhamia, a member of the Ukrainian delegation at the talks with the Russian Federation, said that Kyiv was proposing a new system of security guarantees for Ukraine. According to him, Kyiv sees the UN Security Council countries, as well as Turkey, Germany, Canada, Italy, Poland and Israel as guarantors of security. Earlier, the leadership of a number of European countries, including Germany and Great Britain, declared their readiness to take such a step. On March 29, another round of Russian-Ukrainian negotiations took place in Istanbul. The meeting was held at the Dolmabahce Palace closed to the press and lasted about three hours. The Russian delegation, as in previous rounds, was headed by Vladimir Medinsky, Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation. Following the talks, he, in particular, said that the Russian Federation, in the course of a special operation in Ukraine, is significantly reducing military activity in the Kiev and Chernihiv directions. stated that it would not provide guarantees to Ukraine, as with NATO members, Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» 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 Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and , on March 25, completed the main tasks of the first stage — significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
