US Air Force could police Ukraine's skies to ensure peace, says Trump
Mr Trump clarified plans for American security guarantees on Tuesday and said that there would be no US boots on the ground once a peace deal was agreed.
American air support would be likely to include planes and missiles launched from neighbouring countries.
It comes after Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine's president, and top European leaders held meetings in the White House over how to end the three-and-a-half-year war.
Mr Trump told Fox News: 'We're willing to help them with things, especially, probably talk about by air, because there's nobody [has the] kind of stuff we have.'
Early indications from London and Brussels are that the US president's private discussion on the topic of security guarantees was similarly broad and lacking in specifics as his public statements.
However, Mr Trump said he was not willing to join more than 30 European nations planning to put boots on the ground after a peace settlement.
Questions had remained over promised American support for security guarantees for Ukraine following the high-level gathering in Washington on Monday.
'They want to have boots on the ground,' he said, referring to Anglo-French plans for a European-led 'reassurance force'.
'You have my assurance and I'm president,' Mr Trump said when asked for reassurance US troops would not be deployed.
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