New York — Russian leader Vladimir Putin agreed at his summit with President Donald Trump that the United States and its European allies could offer Ukraine a security guarantee resembling NATO’s collective defense mandate as part of an eventual deal to end the war, a U.S. official said Sunday.

Russian leader Vladimir Putin agreed at his summit with President Donald Trump that the United States and its European allies could offer Ukraine a security guarantee resembling NATO’s collective defense mandate as part of an eventual deal to end the war,

President Trump’s first-term ambassador to NATO, Kay Bailey Hutchison, warned on Sunday that Chinese President Xi Jinping “is watching” President Trump’s approach to negotiations between Russia and Ukraine.

At their Alaska summit, Trump and Putin discussed a peace framework in which Russia would return small occupied areas of Ukraine in exchange for Kyiv ceding larger eastern territories, halting Nato ambitions,

Granta Autonomy makes drones that are used by Ukraine, and its CEO said testing in Ukraine is so important that he visits the battlefield himself.

President Donald Trump suggested in a radio interview Thursday that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky could join him and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska for a second meeting after Trump holds a summit with Putin on Friday.