New Delhi, Aug. 21 -- NATO defense chiefs held a "candid discussion" Wednesday about what security guarantees they could offer Kyiv to help forge a peace agreement that ends Russia's three-year war on Ukraine, a senior alliance official said.

Italian Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone, the chair of NATO's Military Committee, said that 32 defense chiefs from across the alliance held a video conference amid a U.S.-led diplomatic push to end the fighting.

He said there was a "great, candid discussion" in the call. "I thanked everyone for their always proactive participation in these meetings: we are united, and that unity was truly tangible today, as always," he wrote on social platform X without providing further details.

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