President Trump has promised security guarantees for Ukraine as part of an eventual peace agreement with Russia. But he gave an “assurance” that American troops would not be deployed.

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As the US president pointed out, "it was always thought that that Ukraine was a sort of a buffer between Russia and the rest of Europe"