TRUMP, PUTIN AGREE ON “ROBUST SECURITY GUARANTEES” FOR UKRAINE AFTER ALASKA SUMMIT
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U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin have reached an agreement on what the White House described as “robust security guarantees” for Ukraine, following their high-stakes summit in Alaska.
Steve Witkoff, a top White House envoy, revealed on Sunday during an interview with CNN that Moscow had made concessions regarding five contested Ukrainian regions, particularly the embattled Donetsk province.
“We agreed to robust security guarantees that I would describe as game-changing,” Witkoff said. “The Russians made some concessions at the table with regard to all five of those regions. There is an important discussion with regard to Donetsk and what would happen there, and that discussion is going to specifically be detailed on Monday.”
Trump is expected to host Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and several European leaders in Washington on Monday to discuss the next steps toward ending Russia’s more than three-year-old invasion of Ukraine. The gathering will include British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, and NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte, among others.
The Alaska summit marked a shift in Washington’s negotiating stance, with Trump backing away from his earlier insistence on a ceasefire as a precondition for progress. However, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio clarified on NBC that a ceasefire “is not off the table,” stressing that “what we ultimately are aiming for is an end to this war.”
Trump, in a brief post on his Truth Social platform, celebrated the outcome of the talks, writing: “BIG PROGRESS ON RUSSIA,” without providing further details.
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