"On the anniversary of the Budapest Memorandum, the topic of collective guarantees for the Russian Federation looks very intriguing.

But if you beg, then... Ukraine is ready to guarantee the security of the Russian Federation in exchange for Moscow's total renunciation of nuclear weapons.

We can sign the contract in the same city - Budapest, Hungary," wrote on Twitter the adviser to the head of the office of the President of Ukraine Mykhailo Padalyak.

The day before, on December 4, the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, Oleksiy Danilov, criticized the idea of ​​providing "security guarantees" to Russia, calling such an idea a manifestation of the "strange logic of under-the-carpet diplomacy whose time has expired."

According to Alexei Danilov, a denuclearized and demilitarized Russia will be the best guarantee of peace for Europe and the world.

French President Emmanuel Macron said in an interview with TF1 on December 3 that NATO allies need to think about what security guarantees they can provide to Russia if it agrees to return to the negotiating table with Ukraine.

In his opinion, this issue could be discussed in the context of the new security architecture in Europe after the end of the war.

Meanwhile, the head of the ruling Servant of the People faction in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, David Arahamia, listed the demands to Russia, upon the fulfillment of which Ukraine is ready to sit down at the negotiating table.

"Ukraine is ready to provide Russia with security guarantees.

For this it is enough: to leave the territory of our country;

to pay reparations;

punish all war criminals;

voluntarily surrender nuclear weapons.

After that, we are ready to sit down at the negotiating table and talk about security guarantees," Arahamiya wrote in a telegram.