Russian leader Vladimir Putin agreed to having the US and Europe provide Ukraine with NATO-style security guarantees as part of deal to end the war, President Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff said Sunday.

“We were able to win the following concession: That the United States could offer Article 5-like protection, which is one of the real reasons why Ukraine wants to be in NATO,” he said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

The compromised, which emerged from Trump’s Alaska summit with the Russian strongman, “was the first time we had ever heard the Russians agree to that,” he said. 3

The arrangement Witkoff laid out would involve countries, including European allies and the US, agreeing to defend Ukraine if it is attacked in the future.

NATO’s Article 5 stipulates that an attack on

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