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A thousand two hundred seventies. Putin and Trump may have agreed on the guarantees of the security of Ukraine. They can be similar to those who have NATO members (but without joining the Alliance)

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Trump and Putin may have agreed under security guarantees for Ukraine

On the eve of Alaska, a meeting of the presidents of the United States and Russia Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin took place. The negotiations lasted almost three hours, after which the presidents made only short statements for the press, refusing to answer questions from journalists. From the statements it was unclear whether the parties managed to agree at least something.

All details about past negotiations:

• Online broadcast of the summit.
• The shortest retelling of the press conference of Putin and Trump.
• The main thing about negotiations.
• How politicians around the world evaluate the results of the meeting .
• What the world press writes about the summit .

Trump later in an interview with Fox News said that the parties were “quite close to the deal” and “now it all depends on the President of Zelensky.”

Today, the first leaks about the content of negotiations began to appear in the media. Bloomberg wrote that Trump, who phoned Zelensky and European leaders shortly after negotiations, told the Ukrainian president that Putin, in exchange for a ceasefire, demands a complete withdrawal of Ukrainian troops from Donbass.

CNN, citing an anonymous European official, said that during the conversation, security guarantees for Ukraine according to the type of fifth article of the NATO Charter were discussed during the conversation. According to the source of the channel, NATO as an organization will not participate in these guarantees, they can be provided by Europe or the USA countries.

Agency France-Press, citing a diplomatic source, in turn, reported that the idea of ​​“guarantees for the type of fifth article, but without NATO” proposed by the United States, “was supposedly agreed with Putin”. Similar information was given by an anonymous interlocutor of Ukrainian Truth.

Italy Prime Minister George Melony, who participated in a telephone conversation with Trump, later confirmed that the US president spoke about security guarantees by analogy with the fifth article of the NATO Charter, which “would allow Ukraine to use the support of all partners, including the United States, in case of a second attack.” Meloni did not specify whether Putin agreed to this proposal.

The President of the Russian Federation in his speech after negotiations separately mentioned the issue of guarantees, emphasizing that Moscow agrees that "the safety of Ukraine should be ensured." “Of course, we are ready to work on it,” he said.

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Tanya (Finland) . I come from the Donetsk region. When the war began, I had to leave. At first I thought about Poland, but friends convinced that it would be safer and more reliable to go transit through Russia to Finland. So I ended up here. But now I feel that I was stuck in some limb-neither at home, nor really here.

Life in Finland turned out to be much more complicated than I represented. It is especially difficult for those who do not have relatives or friends: there are almost no support, and the country itself passes through the period of revision of migration policy, and this is felt daily. For the locals, we are strangers whom they were not called, and their own economic difficulties strongly influence their attitude. Nevertheless, I am grateful that I chose Finland, because, judging by the stories, in Poland, Ukrainians have even harder.

I did not initially perceive yesterday’s negotiations as fateful, but still hoped at least for a hint of understanding how and when war could end. Alas, instead, only general words were again sounded, which we no longer hear for the first time.

Thoughts about the house do not leave me. I really want to return, but I'm afraid that this may be impossible. Now it already seems that either Russia will finally pick up the Donetsk region, or the United States will be sold by the idea of ​​“exchange of territories”. In any case, it will no longer be my house, because I am not ready to live on the occupied land. It’s scary to get stuck in the limb forever ...

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