President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukraine may accept a security arrangement other than NATO membership. He presented the idea as strictly conditional rather than as a settled policy change. The condition concerns the strength and credibility of the protection Ukraine would receive. Any substitute would therefore need to offer guarantees that address Kyiv's security concerns. His comments did not identify a particular replacement alliance. Questions remain about which countries might join such a framework and how its commitments would be enforced. The remarks left room for negotiations while preserving NATO as the benchmark for Ukraine's security demands.