European guarantee of security 'weak'

Tymofiy Mylovanov, Ukraine's former economy minister and current president of the Kyiv School of Economics, has said that the European guarantee of security is "weak."

Speaking on RTÉ's Morning Ireland, Mr Mylovanov said that without the US, the security guarantees will not be meaningful.

"If there are no troops on the ground, that's basically nothing for Russia and they will interpret it as a ticket to be able to engage and invade anytime they wish," he said.

Regarding negotiations between senior US and Russian officials in Saudi Arabia on ending the Ukraine war, Mr Mylovanov said that the talks are "exploratory" from the Russian perspective.

"The optics for the West are pretty bad because there's no Europe at the table, there's no Ukraine," he said.