Putin agreed to leave us, Europe offers NATO -style protections for Ukraine, says Trump Sendo

Washington – Vladimir Putin de Russia agreed on his summit With President Trump to allow the United States and its European allies to offer Ukraine a security guarantee that resembles the NATO collective defense mandate as part of an eventual agreement to end the 3 1/2 -year war in Ukraine, said the special envoy of the United States Steve Witkoff on Sunday.

“We were able to win the following concession: that the United States could offer a protection similar to article 5, which is one of the true reasons why Ukraine wants to be in NATO,” he told the “State of the Union” of CNN. He added that “it was the first time we listened to the Russians to agree with that” and called them “change the game.”

Article 5, in the heart of the Military Alliance of 32 members, states that an armed attack against one or more of the members will be considered an attack against all members.

Witkoff, who had joined the Secretary of State Marco Rubio for conversations on Friday at a military base in Alaska, offered few details about how such an agreement would work. But it seemed to be an important change for Putin and could serve as a solution to its old objection to the possible membership of Ukraine NATO.

When describing some of the details about private discussions, Witkoff also said that Russia had agreed to promulgate a law that would not “persecute any other European country and violate its sovereignty. And there was much more.”

The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, speaking at a press conference in Brussels with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, applauded the measure. “We welcome the will of President Trump to contribute to security guarantees similar to article 5 for Ukraine and the ‘Willing Coalition’, including the European Union, is ready to do its part,” he said.

Zelenskyy thanked the United States for the recent signs that Washington was willing to support such guarantees, but said much was not clear.

“It is important that the United States accepts to work with Europe to provide security guarantees for Ukraine,” he said, “but there are no details of how it will work, and what will be the role of the United States, the role of Europe will be and what the EU can do, and this is our main task, we need security to work in practice 5 of NATO, and we consider that the acquisition of the EU is part of the security guarantees.”

Witkoff defended Mr. Trump’s decision to abandon his impulse that the Russian agrees a high immediate fire, which the president had established as a point of reference at the meeting. Witkoff said the Republican president had turned to a peace agreement because they progressed a lot.

“We cover almost all the other problems necessary for a peace agreement,” Witkoff said, without elaborating. “We begin to see some moderation in the way they are thinking of reaching a final peace agreement.”

Blond He said in “Face the nation with Margaret Brennan” That he would not believe that imposing new US sanctions on Russia would force Putin to accept fire.

“If he did this now, at the time the president puts those additional sanctions, that is the end of the conversations,” said Rubio. “We want to end a peace agreement that ends this war so that Ukraine can continue with the rest of their lives and rebuild their country and be sure that this will never happen again. That is the goal here.”

Rubio said that kyiv “will have to accept things, but they will also have to get things.”

“For example, Ukraine is a sovereign country. They have a right, like all sovereign countries in the world, to enter security alliances with other countries to avoid an invasion in the future, to avoid threats to their national security,” Rubio said. “That is not an unreasonable application. That is something to work on.”

The leaders of Zelenskyy and the Europeans, who listened to Mr. Trump after the summit, are scheduled to meet him In the White House on Monday.

“I am not saying that we are on the verge of a peace agreement, but I am saying that we saw movement, enough movement to justify a monitoring meeting with Zelenskyy and the Europeans, enough movement so that we can devote even more time to this,” Rubio said.

• War
• Marco Rubio
• Ukraine
• Donald Trump
• Policy
• Russia
• Steve Witkoff
• Vladimir Putin
• Volodymyr Zelenskyy
• European Union