President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine is prepared to consider security guarantees that do not require NATO membership. Speaking to Italy’s Corriere della Sera, he attached one necessary condition to that option. The condition was not specified in the report, but the proposal depends on establishing a credible alternative system of protection. Zelensky described an ideal framework as a combination of Ukrainian armed forces, the European Union, and NATO. That arrangement would preserve Ukraine’s military role and its connections to Western institutions without automatic entry into the alliance. His comments were reported by the Unian news portal. The remarks frame membership as a negotiable question rather than an immovable Ukrainian demand.