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The US Special Envoy Steve Vikoff spoke during a Jeanin Piro oath ceremony as a temporary US lawyer for Colombia County, hosted by US President Donald Trump in Washington, Colombia, USA, May 285, 2025.
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US Messenger Steve Vikoff said Sunday that Russian President Vladimir Putin I agreed to allow the United States and European countries to protect Ukraine’s “Article 5 Article 5” as a security guarantee to put an end to the war.
“We were able to win the following discount: that the United States could offer protection of five, similar to a member, which is one of the real reasons why Ukraine wants to be in NATO,” Vitcof said on Sunday at Sunday CnnS
It was “the first time we had heard the Russians agree to it,” he continued.
Article 5 of NATO states that “if NATO’s ally is a victim of an armed attack, any other Alliance member will consider this act of violence as an armed attack on all members and take the actions it considers to be necessary to assist the Union’s attack.”
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Sunday that he welcomed security guarantees to Ukraine and that “the European Union … is ready to make its share” as per Associated PressS
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy He said it was “a historical decision that the United States is ready to participate in security guarantees for Ukraine”, according to a PostS
“The security guarantees as a result of our joint work must really be very practical, to provide land protection, in the air and in the sea, and must be developed with the participation of Europe,” he writes.
The remarks of the special envoy Witkoff come just days after the President Donald Trump He met in Alaska with Putin against his country’s continuing war with Ukraine. Trump and his administration welcomed Speak as “productive“But the details of the meeting have been scarce so far.
Trump, at the beginning of his meeting with Putin, repeatedly emphasized the need for emergency, long -lasting fire in the war.
The conversations did not lead to such an agreement, provoking concern among employees in Ukraine and European nations that Trump is moving away from the target.
However, in the days after the conversations, Trump said that the “best way” to end the war was “to go directly to a peace agreement”.
Vitcof said on Sunday that Trump and Putin “covered almost all the other questions needed for a peaceful deal” during their meeting time without providing additional details.
“We started seeing some moderation in the way they were thinking of reaching a final peace deal,” he said.
Peace Deal “Still Long Roads”
Secretary of State Marco Rubio He also said on Sunday that Russia would face “additional consequences” if Trump’s efforts to end the war “do not work” and warned not to apply additional sanctions.
“The moment you impose additional sanctions, strong additional sanctions, the speaking stops,” he said ABC NewsS
Rubio added that “we are still long roads” from a peace agreement.
“We have made progress in the sense that we have identified the potential areas of consent, but there are some major areas of disagreement,” he said. “We are not in the abyss of the peace agreement, we are not at the end of one, but I think that progress has been made to one.”
Trump is ready to meet with Zelenski and European leaders On Monday.
What is pledged
If the Kremlin actually agrees to Ukraine’s security conditions, similar to NATO 5, this will be a sharp deviation from at least one of the Russian president’s previous justifications for the country’s attack.
Russia said any resolution of the war will have to deal with the “root causes of the conflict”, mostly Ukraine demilitarization and abandonment of its aspirations to join NATO.
The Kremlin also made it clear that he wanted every peace transaction to include international recognition of the annexation of Crimea and significant parts of Eastern Ukraine.
After a summit on Friday, Trump said a peace deal could be achieved if Zelenski agreed to abandon the Donbass region, New York Times reportsquoting senior European officials.
But Zelenski was adamant that Kiev would never recognize any of its sovereign territory as part of Russia, even the Moscow regions had already annexed. The Ukrainian president said it would violate the country’s constitution. Ukraine also said it wanted every peace deal to include guarantees that Russia would never invade again.
“Everyone agrees that the boundaries should not change by force,” Zezhanski writes to X.
“Everyone supports that key issues must be resolved with the participation of Ukraine in a tripartite format – Ukraine, the United States and the Russian chief.”
Rubio also said Sunday to NBC News that “We have to talk about how territories will look and what the borderlines will look like at the end of this conflict.”
“It is necessary to talk about how Ukraine is recovering and how you are restoring a country that has been attacked as often as in the last three and a half years,” he added.
– CNBC’s Terri Cullen contributed to this report
