Washington – Vladimir Putin of Russia agreed with his summit With President Trump to allow the United States and its European allies to offer Ukraine a security guarantee resembling the collective mandate of NATO defense as part of a possible agreement to end the war of 3 1/2 years in Ukraine, the Steve Witkoff Special Envoy said on Sunday.
“We were able to win the following concession: that the United States could offer type 5 protection, which is one of the real reasons why Ukraine wants to be in NATO,” he told the “union” of CNN. He added that “it was the first time that we have heard that the Russians have accepted this” and the names “that change the situation”.
Article 5, at the heart of the military alliance of 32 members, stipulates that an armed attack on one or more members will be considered an attack on all members.
Witkoff, who had joined Secretary of State Marco Rubio for talks on Friday in a military base in Alaska, offered few details on the operation of such an agreement. But it seemed to be a major change for Putin and could serve as a solution for her long -standing objection to the potential NATO of Ukraine.
Describing some of the details on private discussions, Witkoff also said that Russia has agreed to promulgate a law that it would not “go after other European countries and violate their sovereignty. And there were much more.”
The president of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen, speaking during a press conference in Brussels with the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, applauded this decision. “We welcome President Trump’s desire to contribute to type 5 security guarantees for Ukraine and the” Coalition of the Willing “- including the European Union- is ready to do its part,” she said.
Zelenskyy thanked the United States for recent signals that Washington was willing to support such guarantees, but said that many were not clear.
“It is important that America agrees to work with Europe to provide security guarantees to Ukraine,” he said, “but there is no detail how it will work and what will be the role of America, the role of Europe will be and what the EU can do, and we consider that we are mainly security tasks.”
Witkoff defended Trump’s decision to abandon his push that the Russian accepts an immediate cease-fire, which the president had set as a reference in the meeting. Witkoff said the Republican President had pivoted a peace agreement because so much progress had been made.
“We have covered almost all the other problems necessary for a peace agreement,” said Witkoff, without developing. “We have started to see a certain moderation in the way they plan to conclude a final peace agreement.”
Rubio said “Face The Nation with Margaret Brennan” That he did not think of imposing new American sanctions on Russia would force Putin to accept a cease-fire.
“If he was doing this now, when the president puts these additional sanctions, it’s the end of the talks,” said Rubio. “We want to end up with a peace agreement that ends this war so that Ukraine can continue the rest of their lives and rebuild their country and be assured that this will not happen again. This is the goal here.”
Rubio said Kyiv “will have to accept things, but they will also have to get things”.
“For example, Ukraine is a sovereign country. They have the right, like each sovereign country in the world, to conclude security alliances with other countries to prevent an invasion in the future, to prevent threats from their national security,” said Rubio. “It is not an unreasonable demand. It is something to work on.”
Zelenskyy and the leaders of Europeans, who heard Mr. Trump after the summit, are planned to meet him At the White House on Monday.
“I am not saying that we are on the verge of a peace agreement, but I say that we have seen the movement, enough movement to justify a follow -up meeting with Zelenskyy and the Europeans, enough movement so that we can devote even more time to this,” said Rubio.
