Ukraine proposes to adopt neutral status in exchange for security guarantees in talks with Russia in Turkey, which means it will not join the military alliance or the host military base, Ukrainian negotiator said on Tuesday.
The proposal will also include a 15-year consultation period on the status of Crimean’s mind and can take effect only in terms of complete ceasefire, the negotiators told reporters in Istanbul.

The proposal is the most detailed and concrete that Ukraine has aired. They also imagined security guarantees along the line of NATO military alliances article 5, the collective defense clause. Poland, Israel, Turkey and Canada can be among potential security guarantors.

If we succeed in consolidating this main provisions, and for us this is the most fundamental, then Ukraine will be in a position to truly improve its current status as a non-block and non-nuclear state in the form of permanent neutrality,” said Oleksplay negotiator chaly.

We will not host foreign military bases in our region, as well as spreading military contingents in our region, and we will not enter into military-political alliances,” he said, in comments broadcast on Ukrainian national television.

There is enough material in the current Ukrainian proposal to guarantee a meeting between the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and Russian President Vladimir Putin, said Ukrainian negotiator, adding them to waiting for Russian response.