White House Special Envoy Steve Witkoff said on Sunday that Russian President Vladimir Putin allegedly agreed at a summit with President Donald Trump that the U.S. and European allies could provide Ukraine with security guarantees similar to NATO's Article 5 as part of a hypothetical peace agreement.
He said it on Sunday in an interview with CNN, APA reports.
“We got to an agreement that the United States and other European nations could effectively offer Article 5-like language to cover a security guarantee,” Witkoff said.
The special envoy said that Ukraine joining NATO is a red flag for Putin. “And so what we were discussing was assuming that that held, assuming that the Ukrainians could agree to that and could live with that — and everything is going to be about what the Ukrainians can live with — but assuming they could, we were able to win the following concession that the United States could offer Article 5-like protection,” he said.
