The President of the United States, Donald Trump, confirmed Tuesday morning that there will be no U.S. troops on Ukrainian soil as a follow-up action to a peace agreement. Instead, that final security guarantor role will be delegated to Europe.
During an interview with Fox News, Trump said that the U.S. military would play a supporting role to those European nations that are planning to deploy their armed forces to maintain peace. "There will be some kind of security. It can't be NATO, because that's just not something that would ever, ever happen, it couldn't," he confirmed.
In that regard, as part of negotiations to end the war between Ukraine and Russia, the creation of a 'Coalition of the Willing' is under discussion, which would be deployed in Ukraine with a mission to prevent future conflicts.
Trump offers Zelensky air support.
The security guarantee that Trump offers Ukraine to deter Putin from any future military invasion would be in the form of air support. It remains to be seen whether that would involve the implementation of combat air patrols, aerial surveillance, or the deployment of intelligence resources to provide information to European forces on the ground.
"When it comes to security, Europeans are willing to put people on the ground, we're willing to help them with things, especially by air, because nobody has what we have," Trump confirmed.
As a result of the summit between the United States and Russia last Friday in Alaska, Putin signaled that, for the first time in a long while, he has accepted that Ukraine's allies offer Zelensky postwar security guarantees, something Trump described as "a very significant step" toward ending the armed conflict.
