A senior Russian diplomat said on Wednesday, 11 November 2026, that Moscow could conclude non-aggression pacts with individual NATO member states as part of a new security architecture for Europe being discussed in the Ukraine peace process. Vladimir Medinsky, Russia's chief negotiator at the Ukraine peace talks, which resumed this week for the first time since February, said the idea of a new security framework for Europe had been the central theme of two days of negotiations in Abu Dhabi. He gave no details of what had been discussed. ## Three options set out in Moscow Alexey Drobinin, a senior Russian Foreign Ministry diplomat, outlined the proposals at a Moscow security conference on 11 November 2026. He set out three options. The first was a collective defensive alliance or bilateral mutual assistance deals like Russia's with Belarus and North Korea. The second was political agreements not to help each other's adversaries in the event of aggression, similar to the pact Moscow has with Iran. The third option was bilateral mutual non-aggression pacts. "For example, agreements of this kind could be reached, among other things, with individual NATO member states, which would then receive, for instance, additional individual security guarantees from the Russian Federation," Drobinin told the conference, according to video of his speech posted online. ## Europe divided over the proposal Some European politicians oppose discussing Europe's security architecture before progress on Ukraine, including a ceasefire, is agreed. US officials, however, have made clear they are open to such discussion. Medinsky said after the talks that understanding had been reached on some issues but not on others, and that a large-scale prisoner swap had been agreed. He was cool on European countries joining future talks, saying Moscow had received no concrete peace proposal from Europe. [Reuters](https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-diplomat-says-moscow-could-conclude-non-aggression-pacts-with-nato-2026-11-11/) | [Devdiscourse](https://www.devdiscourse.com/article/international/4005236-russian-diplomat-says-moscow-could-conclude-non-aggression-pacts-with-nato-member-states)