WASHINGTON, August 25. /TASS/. US President Donald Trump said on Monday that specifics of security guarantees for Ukraine had not yet been discussed and added that significant commitments in this regard should be undertaken by European countries.
"<…> security guarantees, because we haven't even discussed the specifics of it. And we'll see. Number one, Europe is going to give them significant security guarantees, and they should, because they're right there," Trump said at a news conference at the White House after he signed a number of important documents.
"But we'll be involved from the standpoint of backup," the US president added.
Following his visit to Washington on August 18, Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky announced that plans were underway to formulate and put on paper security guarantees for his country by the end of August.
Two meetings on Ukraine were held on August 19, including a video conference call of the ‘Coalition of the Willing’ and an online EU summit. Both events addressed the outcomes of the recent Russia-US summit in Alaska and US President Donald Trump’s talks with Zelensky and a number of European leaders, as well as the security guarantees that could be provided to Ukraine after hostilities are over.
