Witkoff Says US, Russia Agree on Security Guarantees for Ukraine

"What I said is that we got to an agreement that the United States and other European nations could effectively offer Article Five, like language to cover a security guarantee. So Putin has said that a red flag is NATO admission, right? And so what we were discussing was assuming that the Ukrainians could agree to that, and could live with that, and everything is is going to be, is going to be about what the Ukrainians can live with. But assuming they could, we were able to win the following concession, that the United States could offer Article Five, like protection, which would, which is the which is one of the real reasons why Ukraine wants to be in NATO," Witkoff told the CNN broadcaster.

"The land, the fundamental issue, which is some sort of land swap, which is obviously ultimately of the control of the Ukrainians that had that could not have been discussed at this meeting. We intend to discuss it on Monday, hopefully we have some clarity on it, and hopefully that ends up in a peace deal very, very soon," he said.