U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff said on Sunday that Russian President Vladimir Putin has indicated he is open to the U.S. agreeing a security guarantee with Ukraine resembling the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's ( NATO ) Article 5 protection.

"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," Witkoff told CNN 's Jake Tapper, adding that it was "the first time we had ever heard the Russians agree to that."

Newsweek reached out by submission form to the U.S. State Department on Sunday afternoon.

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President Donald Trump and Putin met on Friday in Alaska to discuss the war in ongoing war in Ukraine and what it would take for Russia to end

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