President Donald Trump mentioned Tuesday (August 19, 2025) that U.S. air support and European floor troops could possibly be a part of security ensures for Ukraine, warning of a “rough” state of affairs if talks between Moscow and Kyiv fail.
“When it comes to security, they’re willing to put people on the ground,” he instructed Fox News, referring to European allies whom he met within the White House on Monday.
“We’re willing to help them with things, especially, probably, if you talk about by air, because no one has the kind of stuff we have, really, they don’t,” Mr. Trump mentioned.
He added his “assurance” that no US floor troops would deploy to Ukraine, and he categorically dominated out Ukraine becoming a member of the Western army alliance NATO.
Post-war security is a key concern for Kyiv after greater than three years of Russian invasion. Moscow has lengthy mentioned it won’t tolerate Ukraine becoming a member of NATO and has been hostile to the concept of Western troops deploying to the previous Soviet territory.
Mr. Trump mentioned that “France and Germany, a couple of them, UK — they want to have boots on the ground.”
“I don’t think it’s going to be a problem, to be honest with you. I think, I think Putin is tired of” the struggle, he added.
Mr. Trump mentioned that following his talks Monday with European leaders he’s pushing to prepare a bilateral summit between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy — adopted by one other the place he’ll be part of.
“I called President Putin, and we’re trying to work out a meeting with President Zelensky. We’ll see what happens there,” he mentioned. “If that works out, if it works out, then I’ll go to the trilat and close it up.”
Saying it was possible Mr. Putin would again out, Mr. Trump mentioned “I hope President Putin’s going to be good and if not, it’s going to be a rough situation.”
Mr. Zelenskyy “has to show some flexibility also.”
In addition to the query of guaranteeing Ukraine’s future security, the opposite key sticking level in ending the struggle is the standing of the large swaths of land occupied by Russia.
Mr. Trump mentioned Ukraine has to just accept it won’t get its misplaced territories again — together with the jap Donbas area — however in return will get peace.
“I assume you’ve all seen the map. You know, a big chunk of territory is taken and that territory has been taken. Now they’re talking about Donbas, but Donbas right now, as you know, is 79 percent owned and controlled by Russia,” Mr. Trump mentioned.
The US chief mentioned Ukraine was not highly effective sufficient to vary the state of affairs.
“This was a war and Russia is a powerful military nation, you know. Whether people like it or not, it’s a powerful nation. It’s a much bigger nation,” he mentioned. “You don’t take, you don’t take on a nation that’s 10 times your size.”
“Everybody can play cute and this and that, but, you know, Ukraine is going to get their life back,” Mr. Trump mentioned a couple of peace deal involving Ukraine surrendering land. “They’re going to stop having people killed all over the place and they’re going to get a lot of land.”
