Putin agreed to provide Ukraine with "solid" security guarantees, according to Trump's special envoy
This will be one of the issues that Trump and Zelensky will address at Monday's summit.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, during his meeting in Alaska this Saturday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said he agreed to authorize "solid" security guaranteesas part of a future peace agreement with Ukraine during a three-hour meetingwith US President Donald Trump in Alaska, White House Special Envoy Steve Witkoff told CNN this Sunday.
Washington's special envoy for peace missions described this security guarantee as a safeguard of NATO's Article 5 "similar language" to new Russian invasions, which establishes theprinciple of mutual defence .
Trump declared on his way to Alaska that he was willing to support Kiev , along with his European allies, but not "within the framework of NATO," of which Ukraine is not a member.
According to Witkoff, Putin would also have agreed to commit notto enter any other territory, either in Ukraine or in another European country, as part of a future treaty to end the war that Moscow has been waging in Ukraine since 2022.
In the narrative of the historic summit between the US and Russian leaders, the special envoy told CNN that Putin changed his position and made concessions to requests for territorial exchange as a condition for peace, but avoided giving specific details.
Witkoff has advanced that this will be one of the issues that Trump and Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenski will address at tomorrow's White House summit . The meeting will also be attended by several European leaders and thePresident of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen .
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