Mark Rutte shared details of a phone call between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, which took place during the former's meeting with top European officials

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said Russian President Vladimir Putin has agreed to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Rutte shared details of a phone call between Putin and President Trump on Monday,

Steve Witkoff says Vladimir Putin agreed at his summit with Donald Trump to allow the U.S. and European allies to offer Ukraine a security guarantee resembling NATO’s collective defense mandate.

Russian leader Vladimir Putin agreed to have the US and Europe provide Ukraine with NATO-style security guarantees as part of a deal to end the war, President Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff said Sunday.

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said on Monday NATO membership for Ukraine was not under discussion but that there was a discussion on "Article 5" type security guarantees for the country that Russia invaded in February 2022.

Trump did not rule out the possibility of American troops helping to guarantee peace between Ukraine and Russia should the leaders reach an agreement.

It was around midnight in Moscow when Vladimir Putin took a call from the White House about the latest proposals for ending the war. President Donald Trump had just spent several hours in meetings with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and seven other leaders from Europe who had come along in a frantic effort to shore up U.

Trump, fresh from a high-level meeting in the White House with Zelensky and several European leaders, said on Truth Social: “At the conclusion of the meetings, I called President Putin, and began the arrangements for a