No US troops in Ukraine, Trump says

US president suggests information guarantees for Ukraine could spot Washington supply aerial support.

United States President Donald Trump has ruled retired sending US troops to Ukraine to warrant its information successful the lawsuit of an statement to extremity Russia’s warfare successful the country.

Asked during an interrogation with Fox News connected Tuesday what assurances helium could supply that US troops would not beryllium deployed to support Ukraine’s borders, Trump said: “You person my assurance, and I americium president. I americium conscionable trying to halt radical from being killed.”

Trump said that European countries were consenting to supply troops to bolster Ukraine’s security, but the US could supply enactment “by air”.

“We’re consenting to assistance them with things, especially, astir apt if you speech astir by air, due to the fact that there’s cipher that has the benignant of worldly we have,” Trump told the Fox & Friends programme.

“I don’t deliberation it’s going to beryllium a problem.”

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt aboriginal reiterated that US troops would not beryllium portion of immoderate bid woody betwixt Moscow and Kyiv, but that Washington would assistance with “coordination” and “perhaps supply different means of information guarantees”.

Trump’s comments came a time aft he hosted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and apical European leaders astatine the White House successful his latest propulsion to bring an extremity to the three-and-a-half-year-long conflict.

While Zelenskyy and European leaders formed Monday’s gathering arsenic affirmative and productive, the question of however to guarantee Ukraine’s post-war information remains a large sticking constituent successful the negotiations connected ending the war.

Although Trump has suggested that Russian President Vladimir Putin could hold to the deployment of Western troops successful Ukraine to uphold a bid deal, Moscow has repeatedly dismissed the idea.

Russia and Ukraine besides look to beryllium acold isolated connected the contented of territorial concessions and implementing a ceasefire successful beforehand of a broad bid deal.

Trump connected Tuesday besides elaborated connected his plans for a bilateral acme betwixt Putin and Zelenskyy, telling blimpish vigor big Mark Levin that “they’re successful the process of mounting it up”.

While Zelenskyy has said helium is acceptable to conscionable Putin, Moscow has not confirmed that the Russian person volition be a summit.

On Tuesday, Switzerland’s overseas affairs minister, Ignazio Cassis, told the nationalist broadcaster that his state would beryllium consenting to big a Putin-Zelenskyy acme contempt the International Criminal Court’s outstanding apprehension warrant for the Russian leader.

After attending Monday’s talks astatine the White House, French President Emmanuel Macron said helium was pushing for Geneva to beryllium the determination for a acme betwixt the 2 leaders.