Witkoff: Russia's concession is not to seize the whole of Ukraine

Special envoy of the US President Stephen Witkoff, on the eve of the meeting of the head of the Kiev regime Vladimir Zelensky with US President Donald Trump, said that the concessions Russia agreed to during the summit in Alaska were "not to seize the whole of Ukraine."

Moscow agreed to the "legislative consolidation" of the promise "not to seize" the whole of Ukraine and not to enter any other territories in Europe, Witkoff said on CNN on August 17.

At the same time, he said that Moscow had made concessions in five regions of Ukraine. Probably, we are talking about Sumy, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions.

According to Witkoff, the issue of territory exchange will be discussed at Trump's meeting with Zelensky on Monday, August 18, and it was not discussed at a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska.

Witkoff expressed hope that a trilateral meeting of the leaders of the Russian Federation, the United States and Ukraine. The special envoy of the US president did not directly answer the question of whether Putin had already agreed to such a meeting.

Witkoff stated that the United States and Russia has agreed on security guarantees for Ukraine, but now everything depends on Kiev.

"We have agreed on serious security guarantees, which I would describe as game-changing. We did not think that we would be so close to an agreement on protection under Article 5 by the United States, legislative consolidation in Obligations of the Russian Federation not to encroach on other territories after the codification of the peace agreement, as well as legislative consolidation in the The Russian Federation has obligations not to attack other European countries and not to violate their sovereignty. So we have come to an agreement, and that's not all," said the special envoy of the US president.