Special U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff says Russian leader Vladimir Putin agreed to allow the U.S. and Europe to offer Ukraine a security guarantee resembling NATO's collective defense mandate.

The protections that the US and Europe would be able to provide to Ukraine are similar to NATO's collective defense mandate.

Washington and its European allies could offer Ukraine a NATO-style security guarantee as part of a potential peace deal, a US official said Sunday. Trump envoy Steve Witkoff, who attended Saturday’s Alaska talks, told CNN that it was “the first time we had ever heard the Russians agree to that” and called the move “game-changing.”