UKRAINE is willing to drop its Nato ambitions as Zelensky makes another huge concession for peace amid mounting pressure from the White House to end the war. In return for Kyiv giving up its Nato

The US said it had offered strong, NATO-like security guarantees to Ukraine and voiced confidence that Russia would accept. However, Volodymyr Zelensky said that differences remain on the question of what territories Ukraine would have to cede to Russia.

The Kremlin has described Ukraine's push to join NATO as one of the "root causes" of the conflict. Russia sees an expanding NATO as a major security threat. But NATO's expansion into the Baltics and other post-Soviet states is driven by a fear that Moscow would one day invade and try to fold them back under its control—as seen in Ukraine.

The U.S. has agreed to provide unspecified security guarantees to Ukraine as part of a peace deal to end Russia's nearly four-year war, and more talks are likely this weekend, U.S. officials said Monday following the latest discussions with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Berlin.