Witkoff announced the agreement between Russia and the United States on security guarantees for Ukraine

The United States and Russia have agreed on security guarantees for Ukraine. This was stated on August 17 by Stephen Witkoff, special representative of the President of the United States, in an interview with CNN.

"We succeeded <..> to agree that the United States could provide protection under the type of Article 5, and this was the first time that we heard the Russians agree to this," he said, speaking about the summit of Russian President Vladimir Putin and his American counterpart Donald Trump in Alaska.

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