translation: security i guarantees and neutrality. non—nuclear status of our state. we're ready to go for it. this is the most important point. it was the main point for russia, as far as i can remember. and if i remember correctly, this is why they started the war. if it became neutral, ukraine would have to abandon its ambitions to join the military alliance nato, or the european union. ukraine also wouldn't be able to interfere in wars elsewhere. have a look at this map of nato expansion. russia already shares a small part of its border with nato countries. so it's long been opposed to ukrainejoining. that wasn't imminent, but ukraine says it would like to in time. this is the former us ambassador to nato weighing in on that subject. he is putting that message out there to a russian audience in russian deliberately, in order to show that that has nothing to do with why vladimir putin is attacking him. putin has used this narrative, false narrative, that it was ukraine's progress towards nato or nato enlargement that is the source of some insecurity for russia, that they are responding to it.