During the NATO meeting, the West rushes to provide "security guarantees" to Ukraine.

 Politico reported that before this week's NATO summit in Lithuania, a small group of Western allies is trying to finalize a statement of security guarantees for Ukraine, citing four people involved in the discussions.

In an article published on Sunday, the magazine said that the United States, Britain, France, and Germany have been in contact with other NATO, European Union, and Group of Seven partners as well as Kyiv, about this matter for weeks.

According to the magazine, the proposal being discussed is to provide a general framework for all nations desiring to continuously offer military aid to Ukraine, with varying specifics from one country to another.

She noted that the initiative is part of a larger discussion on how the Western allies can express their ongoing support for Ukraine that is taking place within NATO and among other groups of nations.

While many allies believe that Ukraine can only join after the end of its war with Russia, the alliance's major powers are working on temporary security commitments they can give Ukraine in the interim. Kyiv wants to join the coalition as soon as possible, giving it the right to activate Article 5, which states that any attack on one of the alliance's countries is an attack on all members.

Although conflict is raging on its soil, not all nations share this opinion. Instead, they are pushing for a quicker path for Ukraine to join the alliance.

The Western powers aim to announce this umbrella framework during the annual NATO summit, which starts next Tuesday in the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius, and lasts for a year, according to officials in Berlin, Paris, London, and Brussels who spoke to Politico on the condition of anonymity. 2 days.

A French official was quoted by the magazine as saying: "Discussions are ongoing, they are very advanced, and we hope that they will be finished by the end of the summit."

A senior NATO diplomat concurred that discussions were taking place and stated that "frantic negotiations about what it should look like" were now underway.

A second NATO diplomat familiar with the plans said that US President Joe Biden will meet with British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Monday in London. Staff from the two administrations will also get together to try to iron out "last-minute details," the diplomat added. Colin Kahl, Undersecretary of Defense (Pentagon) for Political Affairs, is in charge of putting the deal together.

The goal of this initiative, according to the magazine, is to demonstrate continued unity toward Ukraine, especially in light of the likelihood that Kyiv won't receive the firm commitment she sought regarding her NATO membership at this week's summit. The initiative may eventually manifest itself in promises to continue providing much of the assistance already provided by the allies, such as weapons, equipment, training, financing, and intelligence.

"This framework is a guarantee to Ukraine that we will, for a very long time to come, equip, train, finance, and advise their armed forces so that they have a deterrent force against any future aggression," a senior NATO ambassador said.

However, many of the specifics of this support will be left for later because each nation will have to determine bilaterally with Ukraine what they would commit to; this commitment may be anything from air defense to tanks or anything else, he continued.

Politico said that in addition to this security guarantee declaration, which Western powers are now completing, NATO is also creating new strategies to support the Ukrainian army in the ensuing years.

She pointed out that NATO leaders intend to amend their ambiguous 2008 commitment that Kyiv will eventually join NATO, but they do not anticipate issuing the invitation that Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky is requesting.