KIEV, March 21. /TASS/. Possible compromise agreements with Russia, including on security guarantees, should be put for nationwide referendum, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky said on Monday.

"I explained to every negotiating team: when you are speaking about all these changes, they may be historic. We will come to a referendum," he said in an interview with TV companies, which was posted on the website of Ukraine’s Public television. "People will have to say and give an answer about these or those compromise formats. And what these compromises will be about is a matter of our talks and understanding between Ukraine and Russia. Anyway, I am ready to do everything which is needed if I am together with our people."

According to Zelensky, a "normal compromise" is a situation when Ukraine agrees to drop its NATO-wards plans but receives security guarantees from NATO member countries.

Touching on the prospects of Ukraine’s membership in NATO, Zelensky said, "The answer is very simple. We understand everything. They don’t admit us [in NATO] because they are afraid of Russia. That’s all. And we should calm down and say ‘OK, we want other security guarantees.’"

"Some NATO countries want to be security guarantors but, regrettably, they cannot ensure our 100-percent membership in the alliance. But they are ready to do everything the alliance should have done if we were its members. I think it is a normal compromise," he said.

Russian presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky said earlier that Kiev’s proposal at the talks is to create an "Austrian or Swedish type of a neutral demilitarized state" in Ukraine. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed that such an option is currently being discussed as a compromise solution. However, he refused to provide further details as the negotiations are not yet over.