“There will be some form of security. It can’t be NATO because that’s just not something that would ever, ever happen, it couldn’t.”
U.S. President Donald Trump gave his personal assurance that there will be no American boots on the ground in a post-peace deal Ukraine security operation because that will be the job of European states.
More details about the under-negotiation ‘Coalition of the Willing’ security force to be deployed in Ukraine on a deterrence mission in the event of an agreement with Moscow emerged on Tuesday morning as President Trump gave an absolute guarantee there would be no American troops sent on the ground in Ukraine.
When asked during a Fox News interview whether he would be able to guarantee no American troops would be in harm’s way, President Trump replied: “You have my assurance, and I’m President”.
That is not to say the United States will not be involved, however. President Trump said American forces would play a supporting role to those European nations that are planning to deploy their armed forces to maintain peace. He continued: “There will be some form of security. It can’t be NATO because that’s just not something that would ever, ever happen, it couldn’t.”
American support would particularly take the form of air support. Whether that means combat air patrols and air policing or the deployment of intelligence assets to feed information to European forces on the ground is presently unclear. Nevertheless, President Trump said: “When it comes to security [the Europeans are] willing to put people on the ground, we’re willing to help them with things, especially… by air because nobody has the kind of stuff we have.”
The comments follow other remarks by President Trump while sitting with European leaders at the White House on Monday, when he revealed for the first time that “President Putin agreed that Russia would accept security guarantees for Ukraine”.
President Trump said this was a “very significant step” and that it was now time to decide “who will do what”, but, regardless, reassured that “I am optimistic that collectively we can reach an agreement that will deter any future aggression towards Ukraine”.
“I think the European nations are going to take a lot of the burden, we’re going to help them, we’re going to make it very secure,” the president said.
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