Trump envoy says Putin made 'robust' concessions during Alaska meeting talks on Ukraine
The US peace tasks Steve Witkoff claims that Russian President Vladimir Putin took steps towards “solid” peace during his meeting with President Donald Trump last week.
Witkoff, “Fox News Sunday” in a statement with the host Shannon Bream made a statement. He was in the room for the authorized Alaska meeting and met with Putin several times before.
“We agreed on much more robust security guarantees.” Witkoff said. He said. “The Russians legally accepted that they have not tried to get more land from Ukraine after a peace agreement that they will prove that they would not violate any European border.”
Witkoff also said Trump was talking to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European leaders right after the meeting. He said the meeting was “absolutely accepted as a win.”
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The chip pressed Witkoff to explain why Trump did not force him to a cease -fire agreement during the meeting. Trump previously said that a ceasefire was the most important priority, and Putin claimed that if he did not accept one, he would face the results.
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“The President always talked about the ceasefire until he started to realize that we could talk about a very different gains and we could talk about a peace agreement. The final agreement here was a peace agreement and we were talking about much more robust security guarantees than everyone imagined.” He said.
After a call with Trump, the great European leaders did not consider whether they preferred a peace agreement on the ceasefire.
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Leaders “welcomed with pleasure President Trump’s efforts Stopping killing in Ukraine, ending Russia’s war of aggression and obtaining fair and lasting peace. “
Putin described his talks with Trump in Alaska as “very clear”.
“Of course, we respect the position of the American administration, which needs military actions for a quick end, Putin said at a follow -up meeting at the Kremlin,” We want to act to solve all the problems peacefully. “
FOX News’ Landon Mion and Associated Press contributed to this report.
