"We are seeing accommodation more than we've seen in the past, certainly more than we saw in the last administration," Witkoff said. "And that's encouraging. Now we have to build on that."

The US president's special envoy, Steve Witkoff, has said that Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin agreed during his conversation with Donald Trump to provide Ukraine with "robust security guarantees" from the United States as part of a potential peace deal.

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,