Fred Fleitz, National Security Council chief of staff in President Donald Trump’s first term, on Newsmax Monday echoed U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff’s comments that NATO-like security guarantees for Ukraine are a game changer in helping to end the more than three-year-old war with Ukraine.

Witkoff said Sunday that Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed at his summit with President Donald Trump on Friday in Alaska to allow the U.S. and European allies to offer Ukraine a security guarantee resembling NATO’s collective defense mandate as part of a deal to end the war.

“It is fascinating what we’re hearing now that there may be a package in which Trump said today concerning security guarantees, ‘We will give them very good protection, very good security,'” Fleitz told “American Agenda.”

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