Military Options For Ukraine Discussed By U.S., European National Security Advisers
August 21 (Reuters) – On Thursday, military chiefs from the United States and a series of European countries offered Ukraine options to national security advisors to provide security guarantees.
This followed US President Donald Trump’s commitment to protecting the country under any agreement to end Russia’s 3-1/2-year-old war in Ukraine.
A Pentagon statement said that US and European planners have developed military options for “appropriate assessment” by allied national security consultants. Reuters first reported that military leaders are preparing options.
The US, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom and Ukrainian defense chiefs met at Washington DC between Tuesdays and Thursdays.
A source familiar with the issue, Trump’s National Security Advisor, also served as the National Security Advisor, said that Marco Rubio organized a conference meeting with European colleagues on Thursday to discuss the options.
A separate US official, Rubio’nun British National Security Advisor Jonathan Powell, the President of the European Commission, the President of the Cabinet Bjoern Seibert, NATO Secretary General Geoffrey Van Leeuwen and other national security colleagues in France, Italy, Germany and Finland, he said.
The source, which is familiar with the issue, said that the final details should still be solved, but that European countries will provide a “lion’s share ından from any power participating in security guarantees for Ukraine.
This reiterated the interpretation that Vice President JD Vance should take over the costs of the operation of Europe’s operation on Wednesday.
“Planning work is going on,” he added, Washington’s still çalıştı determines the scope of his role ”.
Trump said he would not deploy US troops in Ukraine, but left the door open to US military participation, including air support.
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An option was to send European forces to Ukraine, but it was to make the US responsible for their command and controls, told Reuters.
The US air support may come in various ways, including providing more air defense system to Ukraine and implementing a US fighter aircraft and an out -of -flight area.
French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer supported a unity speeches as part of a willing coalition, and the German Chancellor Friedrich Merz points out his clarity of the participation of his country.
The President of the German Soldiers Association said on Thursday that European NATO leaders should face the fact that tens of thousands of soldiers should be placed in a Ukraine peacekeeper in the long run.
In 80 years, Trump rapidly ended in Europe’s most deadly war, and Kiev and his allies are worried that he could try to force an agreement on the conditions of Russia.
(Reporting by Idrees Ali in Toronto and Jonathan Landay in Washington; Additional reports by Daphne Paladakis; Lisa Shumramer, Mark Porter, Don Durfee and Cynthia Osterman)
