The working legal subgroups involved in the negotiations with Russia are finalizing a security guarantee agreement for Ukraine with regard to its compliance with international law. Mykhail Podolyak, advisor to the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, said this in an interview with Radio NV.

"The background is very heavy, very viscous. But the working legal subgroups are finalizing the agreement on security guarantees for Ukraine with regard to its compliance with international law. Political consultations are going on at the level of political advisers of the potential guarantor countries. Everything is going on, but in parallel with waiting for what will happen on the battlefield," Podolyak said.

Podolyak elaborated on the negotiation process itself. "We had a very successful formulaic solution on how to get out of the war and how to get indisputable security guarantees for Ukraine in terms of not repeating the situation where we are left alone with a very aggressive empire called, unfortunately, Russia. I don't know why they should be called that and not a barbaric federation. However, we had the Istanbul communiqué, which fixed a more or less understandable formula that certain countries will stand by Ukraine on a permanent basis as well," Podolyak said.

He noted that after that Ukraine got a "terribly fantastic" story in the Kv region, which significantly changed the negotiating background. He stressed that after Bucha it is no longer possible to perceive negotiations dryly.

"After that there was still Kramatorsk - the killing of people at the train station, and after that we have Mariupol, which today is physically destroyed, and there are children there. It is no longer possible to perceive the negotiations unemotionally, as one should perceive them," Podolyak noted.

After talks between the Ukrainian and Russian delegations in Istanbul on ending the war in Ukraine, representatives of Kiev said that the Russian Federation offered to create a new system of security guarantees. This should be a treaty that would be ratified by the parliaments of the countries that signed it, according to the head of the Ukrainian delegation, David Arahamia.

He named the UN Security Council member states (Great Britain, China, Russia, USA, France, Turkey, Germany, Canada, Italy, Poland, Israel) as guarantors. According to him, these guarantees will temporarily not work in occupied Crimea and the uncontrolled areas of Donetsk and Luhansk regions.