New York : Ahead of his meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European leaders at the White House, US President Donald Trump on Monday ruled out the possibility of Kyiv reclaiming Crimea from Moscow. Trump’s remarks came even after his special envoy, Steve Witkoff, told CNN that Moscow was willing to let the US and its European allies provide Nato-style security guarantees to Kyiv as part of a potential peace deal, describing the development as “game-changing.”
When Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic joined NATO more than two decades ago, Putin voiced his concerns openly. With Ukraine far closer both geographically and culturally, the Kremlin has drawn an even harder line against any NATO presence on its doorstep. But Witkoff, following Trump’s meeting with Putin, claimed that the Russian President had agreed to let the US or Europe provide a Nato-like security cover to Ukraine.
Calling it a major breakthrough, Witkoff added that this was the first time Moscow had agreed to such a proposal. Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty, also known as the Washington Treaty, is the basis of Nato’s principle of collective defence. It states that an armed attack against any of the alliance’s 32 members in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all.
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