Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has expressed willingness to drop Ukraine's NATO bid in exchange for Western security guarantees.

Ukraine’s offer to forgo joining the NATO military alliance probably will not significantly change the course of peace talks, two security experts said on Sunday.

Amid Russia-Ukraine peace talks, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Kyiv would accept legally binding security guarantees from the United States and other European Nations., World News,

But Ukraine’s leader griped that overall, the negotiations aimed at ending Kremlin’s deadly aggression aren’t about giving his people a “fair” deal.

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte issued a stark warning to Western allies about the reality of the threat posed by Russia, as negotiations are making slow progress to end the war in Ukraine and the U.S. pressures Kyiv to make painful compromises with the Kremlin, including on territorial concessions.

In the updated US peace plan submitted by Ukraine to Washington, Kyiv rejected the demand to cede the Donbas to the Russian regime and refused to give up its bid for NATO membership, reports The New York Times.

Ukraine said the US had proposed the creation of a demilitarised “free economic zone” in areas of the eastern Donetsk region still held by Kyiv, as Nato warned that tension with Russia could spiral into a conflict on the scale of the two world wars.

In the past week, President Donald Trump and senior Republican lawmakers have presented starkly different views of a top U.S. national security challenge: Russia, its war in Ukraine and the threat it poses to Europe and the United States.