Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin agreed at his summit at Alaska last week that the US would be able to offer guarantees of security of Ukraine, according to Steve Witkoff, a special ambassador of Trump.
“We have come to agree that the US and other nations could effectively offer Ukraine a language similar to Article 5,” Witkoff said in the CNN Union, referring to NATO provisions that one ally is attacked, is considered an attack on all Member States.
But Witkoff, who attended a meeting of leaders on a military base on Alaska on Friday, said that their agreement stopped to allow Ukraine to achieve its long -term NATO membership.
“Putin says the red flag is NATO entry,” Witkoff said.
Russia went to the summit and demanded that Ukraine to give up the territory that Russia caught in its three -year war. Witkoff said that Putin “made some concessions with regard to all five of these regions” and added, “There must be a discussion of Donetsk” with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy when he meets Trump on Monday at the White House, indicating that there is room for negotiations.
European leaders will join Ze Zelenskiy at a White House meeting with Trump, in a support show when the Ukrainian leader faces a growing American pressure to agree with the rapid peace agreement with Russia, which includes giving up the territory.
Trump insisted on Sunday that he had made “great progress in Russia” in a contribution to Truth Social.
While Trump went to the Friday summit with Putin I was looking for a ceasefire, appeared and said he would focus on the final settlement.
Witkoff said the switch was made because Putin and Trump have made “so much progress” that there was no need for a ceasefire period in which the details would be developed.
“The diploma thesis on the ceasefire is that you would discuss all these issues we have already solved” on Alaska, Witkoff said on CNN and noted that they could not complete any discussion of land swaps because Zelenky must be directly involved. Trump did not invite Zelenky to a meeting on Alaska.
Foreign Minister Marco Rubio said NBC Meet the Press on Sunday that the US did not exclude a ceasefire in Ukraine as part of the goal of mediation of the peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine, claiming that further sanctions would probably force Putin to accept the agreement.
Rubio also said that the US remains determined to create an agreement that includes “what borderline lines will look like”, and Russia accepts that Ukraine is a “sovereign country”.
“They have the right, like any sovereign country in the world, to have, enter into security alliances with other countries to prevent invasion in the future to prevent the threats of their national security,” Rubio said on CBS’s face. “This is not a disproportionate request.”
Rubio said that no US sanctions against Russia were relaxed and the US can eventually give harder fines if the conversations stop.
“So these possibilities remain the president,” he said. “The moment he takes the steps, all the conversations stop.”
Entering Russia is necessary to end the war, “How can disgust people can find,” Rubio said.
Asked if the ceasefire is outside the table, Rubio said, “No, it’s not outside the table.” He also added, “Let’s be honestly, it’s not our war.”
With the help of Tony Czuczka, María Paul Mijares Torres and Josh Wingrove.
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