JAKARTA - United States President Donald Trump said security guarantees for Ukraine could not include protection from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), adding it was ready to help Europe.
"Regarding security, they (European countries) are willing to deploy ground troops. We are willing to help them in various ways, especially, perhaps, the air, because no one has the security we have, really, they don't have it. But I don't think that's going to be a problem," President Trump said in an interview with Fox News. , reported TASS August 19.
"There will be some form of security. (But) NATO cannot (involve) because that is not something that will ever happen," said the US President.
"I mean, if you were Russian, would you want your enemy, your opponent, to be on your defensive line? You wouldn't do that," said President Trump.
"So Ukraine has always been considered a kind of buffer between Russia and other European countries. And it is a huge and wide buffer. Everything went smoothly until (former US President Joe) Biden intervened," the US leader said.
As previously reported, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Finnish President Alexander Stubb, French President Emmanuel Macron, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte held a meeting at the White House, Washington DC, Monday, quoted by Reuters.
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President Zelensky described his direct talks with President Trump as "very good" and said they discussed Ukraine's need for US security guarantees.
"This is very important, that the United States is giving a strong signal and ready for security guarantees," he said.
President Trump himself said European countries would be "the first line of defense because they were there, but we will help them."
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