US President Donald Trump spoke out after yesterday’s meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and European leaders, with whom he discussed security guarantees for Ukraine.
In an interview with Fox News, Trump explained the direction the talks went and revealed previously unknown details of the plans to reach a truce.
“Great Britain, France, and Germany will send troops on the ground to ensure peace. They will deploy them in advance. I don’t think that will be a problem,” Trump said.
He said that the US will not send soldiers on the ground, but that US security guarantees are “possible from the air.”
When asked if he could give guarantees that American troops would not be deployed, Trump replied: “You have my assurance, and I am the president.”
“I’m just trying to stop the killing of people,” said the first man of America.
Trump also said that he hopes Vladimir Putin “will be good.”
“If he’s not, it will be a difficult situation,” he said.
The US President added that he thinks Volodymyr Zelensky and Putin are “doing well.”
The US President says that he has always considered Ukraine to be a buffer zone between Russia and Europe.
Trump added that he had a “very good conversation” with Putin after his meeting with Zelensky and European leaders yesterday.
“I didn’t do it in front of them, I thought it would be disrespectful to President Putin,” he said, adding that “Putin would not talk to people from Europe.”
Will Putin and Zelensky meet?
Trump revealed more details about his plans for a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
“In a way, I organized it with Putin and Zelensky, and you know, they are the ones who have to make the decisions, we are, we are 7,000 miles away,” Trump said.
“I called President Putin and we are trying to arrange a meeting with President Zelensky and we’ll see what happens there, and then, if it succeeds, if it succeeds, then I will go to a trilateral meeting and conclude it,” he added.
The President added that, in his opinion, Putin and Zelensky “are cooperating a little better than he thought.”
“I think maybe the fact that they get along a little better than I expected. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have organized a meeting of the two of them, but I would have immediately organized a trilateral meeting. But I think they are doing a little better now. There was a huge amount of bad blood between them,” the president said.
Source: Telegraf; Photo: AP / Alex Brandon