Around 15 countries are exploring ways to provide security guarantees to Ukraine.

Axar.az reports via BBC, French Defence Minister Sebastien Lecornu stated this.

He emphasized that "the real security guarantees here will be the help we can give to the Ukrainian army."

"It's complex... we have to think about matters of security in the Black Sea, nuclear power plants in Ukraine... and we will have to start thinking about dividing up these responsibilities."

He also announced that chiefs of defence staff will meet again in 15 days, he adds, saying: "Why 15 days? Because if Russia has accepted the ceasefire we'll obviously want to use the 30 days to come up with the structure of the security framework."