Special U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff says Russian leader Vladimir Putin agreed to allow the U.S. and Europe to offer Ukraine a security guarantee resembling NATO's collective defense mandate.

Trump’s entire interview on Tuesday morning was permeated by expressions of understanding, empathy and respect for Putin, despite the fact that the Kremlin leader remains sanctioned to the hilt by the US government and wanted for war crimes in Ukraine by the International Criminal Court.

The protections that the US and Europe would be able to provide to Ukraine are similar to NATO's collective defense mandate.

Donald Trump has signalled his support for a package of security guarantees for Ukraine, including foreign boots on Ukrainian soil from around 10 European countries, in a new push to pressure Russian president Vladimir Putin into ending the conflict.

The British government said on Tuesday European leaders were weighing additional sanctions to ramp up pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin as part of a broader push to put an end to the war in Ukraine.

Donald Trump continued browbeating Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskiy into making concessions that he believes could end Europe’s most-deadly war in eight decades. Speaking today in an interview on Fox,