Putin agreed to allow us to provide Europe to provide NATO protection to Ukraine, says Trump’s envoy

Washington – Russia, Vladimir Putin, agreed to summit With President Trump to allow the United States and its European allies to provide a security guarantee to Ukraine, which is similar to the NATO group defense as part of a deal in the end to end a 3/two -year war in Ukraine.

“We managed to win the following privilege: The United States can provide protection similar to Article 5, which is one of the real reasons for the formation of Ukraine in NATO,” CNN told “the state of the union.” He added, “It was the first time that we heard the Russians agreed on that” and called them “changing the game.”

Article 5At the heart of the 32 military coalition, it states that the armed attack against one or more members is an attack on all members.

Witkeov, who joined Foreign Minister Marco Rubio on Friday at a military base in Alaska, provided few details about how such an agreement works. But this seems to be a major transformation for Putin and it can be a solution to his long -standing objection to the potential NATO membership in Ukraine.

Witkoff agreed to determine some details about private discussions, that Russia has agreed to enact a law that “no other European countries will be pursued and violated their sovereignty. There was a lot.”

He praised this step at a press conference in Brussels with the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Layen, speaking at a press conference in Brussels with Ukrainian President Folodimir Zelinsky. She said: “We welcome President Trump’s willingness to contribute to security guarantees that resemble Article 5 of Ukraine and the” Al-Raghiba Alliance “-including the European Union-is ready to conduct its share.”

Zelenskyy thanked the United States for the modern references that Washington was ready to support such guarantees, but she said that many are unclear.

He said: “It is important for America to agree to work with Europe to provide security guarantees for Ukraine, but there are no details about how it works, what is America’s role, and the role of Europe will be what the European Union can do, and this is our main task, and we need security in practical practice such as Article 5 of NATO, and we consider joining the European Union part of security guarantees.”

Witkoff defended Mr. Trump’s decision to abandon him to push the Russian to agree to the immediate ceasefire, which the president placed as a standard at the meeting. Witkev said that the Republican President had achieved a peace agreement because a lot of progress was made.

“We have covered all other issues necessary for a peace agreement,” Witkeov said. “We started to see some moderation in the way they think about reaching a final peace agreement.”

Rubio He said on “confronting the nation with Margaret Brennan” He does not believe that the imposition of new US sanctions on Russia will force Putin to accept a ceasefire.

“If he does so now, the moment the president puts these additional penalties, this is the end of the talks,” Rubio said. “We want to finish a peace deal that ends this war so that Ukraine can continue their lives and rebuild their country and ensure that this will not happen again. This is the goal here.”

“They will have to accept things, but they will have to get things too,” Rubio said.

“For example, Ukraine is a sovereign country. They have a right, like every sovereign country in the world, to enter security alliances with other countries to prevent invasion in the future, and to prevent threats to its national security,” Rubio said. “This is not unreasonable. This is something to work on.”

Zelenskyy and European leaders, who heard from Mr. Trump after the summit, are He is scheduled to meet with him In the White House on Monday.

“I do not say that we are about to the peace agreement, but I say that we have seen a movement, sufficient movement to justify a follow -up meeting with Zelinski and the Europeans, enough of the movement for us to devote more time to that,” Rubio said.