European leaders and the United States pledged protection for Ukraine while avoiding direct military confrontation with Russia. A summit involving US and European figures followed a meeting between US and Russian leaders that produced no ceasefire. Ukrainian officials and analysts remain sceptical about concrete security guarantees, arms supplies, or Western troop deployments. Observers say mutual assistance pacts guaranteeing rapid Western military intervention are unlikely because of the risk posed by Russia's nuclear arsenal. Vague and relative guarantees raise questions about how Kyiv will secure a durable peace deal and protection from renewed hostilities.
Analysts say as the US and Europe avoid direct military contact with Russia, a ceasefire is yet elusive. Kyiv, Ukraine With unprecedented backing from European leaders, Ukraine seems in theory to have secured very good protection from the United States. We will give them very good protection, very good security, US President Donald Trump said on Monday, sitting next to his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy and seven helmsmen from Europe.
A Ukrainian military analyst is sceptical about the real outcome of Monday's gathering. No decision has been made from the viewpoint of security guarantees, the supply of arms and [the deployment of Western] troops, Lt Gen Ihor Romanenko, former deputy head of Ukraine's general staff of armed forces, told Al Jazeera. The security guarantees are vague, undefined and will most likely be relative, according to Volodymyr Fesenko, head of the Kyiv-based Penta think tank.
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