Vladimir Putin during the Alaska summit “gave guarantees ” to Donald Trump “that he will not attack any other country,” he also accepted “robust security guarantees” for Ukraine “modeled on NATO’s Article 5 “and made “some concessions ” regarding five Ukrainian regions occupied by the Russians. This is what the American president’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, declared in an interview with CNN. Witkoff, present at the summit at the military base in Anchorage, made public some of the “agreements” reached between the two presidents.

On the eve of Volodymyr Zelensky 's arrival at the White House – in the presence of European leaders (including Meloni) – Trump's special envoy declared in the interview that the US president had obtained from Putin"unprecedented security guarantees for the United States and Europe": "He assured us that he will not attack any other country or American assets once the peace agreement is finalized" with Ukraine. The Russian leader also gave his consent to the inclusion, in a legal framework in Russia, of a commitment not to enter any other territory, in Ukraine or elsewhere in Europe.

Guarantees which, Witkoff underlines, represent “ a turning point ” and which also concern Kiev, having received the go-ahead from Putin so that United States and Europe can offer Ukraine a security guarantee similar to the collective defense mandate of the Atlantic Alliance: “We managed to obtain the following concession : that the United States can offer protection similar to that provided for in Article 5, which is one of the real reasons why Ukraine wants to join NATO ,” he declared, adding that it was the first time he had heard Putin accept this condition.

Meanwhile, while Zelensky continues to reiterate that Ukraine's Constitution"makes it impossible to cede territory" or exchange it, Witkoff emphasizes that the topic will be on the table at the White House meeting:"The cession of Ukrainian territories will be discussed tomorrow," he specified. A summit which, the special envoy assures,"will be productive." Russia – Witkoff continues – has made "some concessions regarding five Ukrainian regions," likely referring to Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, and Crimea. The Black Sea Peninsula was annexed by Russia in 2014, while the other four regions were annexed in September 2022.

Concessions from Putin which, for Witkoff,"are significant. Even if this does not mean that they are sufficient. The point is – he underlined – that we have begun to see a certain moderation in the way they think a peace agreement can be reached." On Monday at the White House, Zelensky and the European leaders will meet with Trump, and on that occasion they will understand the next steps and whether it will be possible to reach the trilateral Moscow-Kiev-Washington meeting which, according to Axios