Witkoff hints at Putin's security demands for Ukraine and NATO Donald Trump's envoy Steve Witkoff has said negotiations between the US and Russia "might be on the verge of something that would be very, very important for the world at large". Speaking to Fox News last night, Witkoff discussed what he perceives as Vladimir Putin's demands, after he met the Russian leader for talks in St Petersburg on Friday. "Towards the end, we actually came up with - I'm going to say finally, but I don't mean it in the way that we were waiting; I mean it in the way that it took a while for us to get to this place - what Putin's request is to get to, have a permanent peace," he said. He also hinted at what Putin's security demands might be, saying a peace deal is "about the so-called five territories, but there's so much more to it: there's security protocols, there's no NATO, NATO Article 5, I mean, it's just a lot of detail attached to it." Article 5 is the principle of the NATO alliance where an attack on one member is treated as an attack on all members, with a coordinated response. Witkoff continued: "It's a complicated situation... rooted in... some real problematic things happening between the two countries and I think we might be on the verge of something that would be very, very important for the world at large." He added that he believed "there is a possibility to reshape the Russian-United States relationship through some very compelling commercial opportunities that I think give real stability to the region too."