The US President Donald Trump informed the Europeans that Vladimir Putin He accepted the presence of Western troops in Ukraine in the context of any peace agreement.
This is transmitted by Wall Street Journal by stressing how Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin agreed that The presence of West troops will ensure the viability of peace in Ukraine.
At the same time, Donald Trump told European leaders that is open to the possibility of providing US security guarantees in Ukraine something that marks Great shift in its stance on US role In the end of the war
The officials, who spoke with Trump after his meeting with Vladimir Putin in Alaska, said they said that The US president told them the Russian leader would not stop battles during peace talks And how he insisted that Ukraine should deliver Donetsk and the territories to the east of the country, in return for the “freezing” of the forehead elsewhere.
According to four officials cited by WSJ, Trump said Putin accepted that every peace agreement should include the presence of Western troops in Ukraine.
The guarantees that Kiev ask for
Prior to the Alaska Summit, the US had informed Europeans that Russia had shown intention to temporarily cease fire and participating in a second round of talks for a longer -term peace, according to three officials.
But in a telephone conversation from the Air Force One, on his return from the Alaska Summit, Trump conveyed to Europeans that Putin wants to continue his battles.
Kiev has long been seeking US security guarantees as a shield against future aggression from Russia in the context
any peace agreement.
However, some US officials insist that Washington will not take on a guarantor for Kiev and that this insistence on Zelenski to secure some guarantees had led to a warm incident with Donald Trump at the Oval Office in February.
The White House has not publicly commented on the issue of security guarantees for Ukraine after Trump’s arrival in Alaska for a meeting with Putin.
Changed attitude and Trump
And Donald Trump, however, seems to change his attitude regarding the issue of security guarantees to Ukraine, according to European officials, as he had rejected Zelenski’s requests for months, as he would not want to involve the US in a foreign war.
According to three European officials involved in communication, the guarantees described by Trump could include US military support in a European guided security force in Ukraine, but without committing a permanent presence of US troops on the ground.
According to the same source, Trump spoke of bilateral security commitments and financial and military support for Ukraine’s armed forces under a western coalition that the US would participate in.
European governments underlined on Saturday, August 17, in a joint announcement that Ukraine needs “non -negotiable security guarantees” to defend its sovereignty and territorial integrity, welcoming the US president’s statement that the US is ready.