{"id":357317,"date":"2025-08-19T17:31:32","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T17:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/357317\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T17:31:32","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T17:31:32","slug":"live-updates-trump-says-no-to-us-troops-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/357317\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: Trump says no to US troops in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> on Tuesday offered his assurances that <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-russia-ukraine-war-defend-american-troops-85704282576324a36567798e9cb741ec\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S. troops would not be sent to Ukraine<\/a> to defend against Russia, after seeming to leave open the possibility the day before. Trump also said in a morning TV interview that Ukraine\u2019s hopes of <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/nato-ukraine-explainer-washington-summit-7ad69ed9a58b23fc3d4a0df4f7bc5bf7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">joining NATO<\/a> and regaining the <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/crimea-ukraine-russia-war-putin-d6c9d21427844a0aae9253e94ea055c4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crimean Peninsula<\/a> are \u201cimpossible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Details of the security guarantees and Trump\u2019s efforts to arrange peace talks continue to evolve after the U.S. president, Ukrainian President <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/volodymyr-zelenskyy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Volodymyr Zelenskyy<\/a> and other European leaders held <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-ukraine-war-trump-zelensky-what-to-know-f70e7c231251f263a66772d954eefff5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hours of talks<\/a> at the White House aimed at ending <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/russia-ukraine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Russia\u2019s war against Ukraine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>European leaders said they want U.S. support for \u201crobust security guarantees,\u201d including the \u201cdeployment of a reassurance force\u201d as Trump pursues his campaign promise to end the grinding war.<\/p>\n<p><b>What to know about efforts to end the Russia-Ukraine war:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul class=\"rte2-style-ul\" id=\"rte-7c26fd40-79ef-11f0-81b1-ff2aae7cce8e\">\n<li><b>Trump spoke with Putin by phone: <\/b>Trump spoke with the Russian leader during his meeting with European leaders, later saying he\u2019d begun making arrangements for a meeting between Putin and Zelenskyy. Trump called it \u201ca very good, early step for a War that has been going on for almost four years.\u201d It\u2019s unclear whether Putin has fully signed on to such talks.<\/li>\n<li><b>Trepidation from Europe:<\/b> Many in Europe worry that Trump is pressing Ukraine to make concessions that will only further embolden Putin. NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said that \u201cif Russia is not playing ball\u201d on direct talks with Ukraine, \u201cthe United States plus Europe will do more when it comes to tariffs and sanctions\u201d on Moscow.<\/li>\n<li><b>\u2018NATO-like\u2019 security guarantees:<\/b> Trump stopped short of committing U.S. troops to a collective effort to bolster Ukraine\u2019s security. He said instead that there would be a \u201cNATO-like\u201d security presence and that all those details would be hashed out with EU leaders. NATO itself is underpinned by a political commitment by all member countries to come to the aid of any member whose sovereignty or territory might be under attack.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Other news we\u2019re following:<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump on Tuesday offered his assurances that U.S. troops would not be sent to Ukraine to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[12261,32,2000,299,10680,657],"class_list":{"0":"post-357317","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-district-of-columbia","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-government-and-politics","13":"tag-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115056626000817229","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}