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Trump offers assurance of no US boots on the ground in Ukraine
President Trump offered his assurances Tuesday that U.S. boots would not be on the ground to defend the Ukraine-Russia border as part of any security assurances for Kyiv to end the war. 'What kind of assurances do you feel like you have that going forward, and past this Trump administration, it won't be American boots on the ground defending that border?' co-host Charles Hurt asked Trump during a phone interview on 'Fox & Friends.' 'Well, you have my assurance — and I'm president. I'm just trying to stop people from being killed,' Trump responded. The president had indicated earlier in the interview that European nations may put boots on the ground. It's unclear if Russia would agree to that as part of any peace agreement. 'We've got the European nations, and they'll front-load it, and they'll have, some of them … they want to have, you know, boots on the ground,' Trump said. 'I don't think it's going to be a problem, to be honest with you. I think Putin is tired, I think they're all tired of it. But, you never know.' Trump called into 'Fox & Friends' the day after he hosted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and top European leaders at the White House for talks on how to end the war in Ukraine, which has been raging since Russian forces invaded in 2022. Trump and European officials discussed potential security assurances for Ukraine as part of a peace deal that would prevent future Russian aggression, though the specifics remain murky. Zelensky said he hoped those details would be ironed out in the next 10 days. Trump has definitively ruled out NATO membership for Ukraine as part of any peace deal. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
CNN
22-05-2025
- Politics
- CNN
Russian forces are creating ‘buffer zone' along Russia-Ukraine border, Putin says
Russian armed forces are creating a 'security buffer zone' along the border between Russia and Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin said Thursday. 'I have already said that a decision was made to create the necessary security buffer zone along the border. Our armed forces are currently solving this problem. Enemy firing points are being actively suppressed, the work is underway,' Putin said. Ukrainian foreign ministry spokesperson Heorhii Tykhyi said the plan was 'aggressive' and demonstrated that 'Russia is the obstacle of peace efforts now.' Thursday's announcement was made ahead of an expected prisoner exchange between Ukraine and Russia on Friday – an outcome of last week's face-to-face talks in Turkey, the first time the two countries have held direct talks at any level in three years. The Russian president previously raised the possibility of creating a 'buffer zone' in March during a visit to Russia's Kursk region. He doubled down on the border plan during a meeting on Thursday with members of the government, during which he discussed the need to 'restore and rebuild everything that was destroyed' in the border region. '(We must) help people return to their native villages, settlements, (and) where security conditions allow, restore all transport and other infrastructure,' Putin added. The Russian leader is planning on hosting a dedicated meeting to discuss the 'restoration' projects, Russian state media reported on Thursday. The announcement comes days after Putin visited Russia's Kursk region for the first time since claiming to have completely retaken the region from Ukrainian forces, state media reported on Wednesday. During the visit, the Russian leader said that Ukrainian forces were trying to move toward the Russian border, according to RIA Novosti news agency. Kyiv launched its offensive into the Russian border territory last August – the first ground invasion of Russia by a foreign power since World War II – and had held control of parts of the region until late last month. Kyiv had intended on using it as a key bargaining chip in any peace talks. Such dialogue did not materialize until last week, when teams from Kyiv and Moscow met in person in Turkey to begin discussing an end to the war and agreed upon a prisoner exchange – 1,000 people from each side. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said Thursday that Russia had received Ukraine's proposed list of prisoners of war to be exchanged in Friday's expected swap, according to Russian state media. 'Yes, indeed, we have received it now,' Peskov was reported as saying when asked about the Ukrainian list. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on X Thursday that Ukraine is 'clarifying the details for each individual included on the lists submitted by the Russian side.' 'The agreement to release 1,000 of our people from Russian captivity was perhaps the only tangible result of the meeting in Türkiye. We are working to ensure that this result is achieved,' Zelensky posted. CNN's Lex Harvey contributed to this report.
