Following last week’s Alaska summit, the Trump administration boasted that Russian President Vladimir Putin had made the concession of allowing Ukraine to receive “NATO-style” security guarantees from the West, a development that was initially widely praised. However, Moscow clarified Wednesday that this would be conditional on giving Russia and China the power to veto any future efforts to defend Kyiv, rendering these guarantees useless.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov indicated at a press conference in Moscow on Wednesday that the Kremlin would accept international security guarantees for Ukraine only if they match what his government had proposed during the Istanbul peace talks of early 2022.

During these earlier talks (but as far as we know, not in the current talks) R

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