Alaska talks focus on security guarantees for Ukraine outside NATO - media
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RBC-Ukraine, citing its own sources, reports.During the talks, the issue was raised as "Non-NATO Article 5 security guarantees" — meaning security guarantees similar to those in Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty on collective defense, but outside the NATO framework.Specifically, the U.S. proposed such a security guarantee, reportedly agreed with Putin. This was mentioned by the Americans during discussions with Zelenskyy and later reiterated in a joint conversation with European leaders.Trump–Putin summit in Alaska: what is knownOn the night of August 16, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin held a summit in Anchorage, Alaska, in a “3-on-3” format that lasted nearly three hours — their longest discussion yet. According to the U.S. leader, the meeting was “productive” and covered many issues, but “not on everything did we fully agree,” so “there is no deal yet.”Trump stressed that he would soon hold calls with NATO representatives, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and others.He also said the Alaska summit nearly produced an agreement, and that a meeting between Zelenskyy and Putin with his participation is now being planned.“Now it’s really up to President Zelensky to get it done,” Trump said in a Fox News interview following his sitdown with Putin in Alaska, CNN reports. “They’re going to set up a meeting now between President Zelensky and President Putin and myself, I guess.”On the morning of August 16, U.S. President Donald Trump held a phone call with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The conversation followed Trump’s meeting the previous day with Russian leader Vladimir Putin.Trump said talks with Putin, Zelenskyy, and EU leaders concluded that the war’s best end is an immediate peace agreement, skipping a temporary ceasefire.
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