"....Kyiv renouncing its ambitions to join Nato and promising not to host foreign military bases or weaponry in exchange for protection from allies such as the US, UK and Turkey..."
(https://www.ft.com/content/7b341e46-d375-4817-be67-802b7fa77ef1)
Unfortunately and in some part thanks to warmongering Boris Johnson in April this never happened.
This failure ultimately resulted in a change in Russian policy with the creation of the "four new regions" of Russia (30 Sept ): Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhia whose populations are now "...our citizens forever".
-I would reckon under the new policy Odessa and Mykolaiv are cards yet to be played for.
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