Trump Promises No US Troops Are Going to Ukraine

Much remains unclear about how the Russia-Ukraine situation will shake out, but President Trump is taking one possibility off the table: The US will not send ground troops to Ukraine to enforce any peace agreement, he told Fox News on Tuesday. "You have my assurance," he told Fox & Friends on Tuesday. On Monday, Trump said the US would be "involved" in any security guarantees for Ukraine, and he fleshed that out a bit in his Fox interview, reports the Washington Post.

• "When it comes to security, they're willing to put people on the ground," Trump said, referring to European nations. "We're willing to help them with things, especially probably ... by air because there's nobody that has the kind of stuff we have."

The president also said he was trying to arrange a face-to-face meeting between Volodymyr Zelensky and Vladimir Putin, one that would be followed by a three-way meeting including Trump. "Maybe they're getting along a little bit better than I thought," said Trump, per Fox. "Otherwise, I wouldn't have set up the two [of them] meeting—I would have set up a [trilateral meeting]." As of Tuesday morning, no details have surfaced about a possible Putin-Zelensky meeting.

• Trump also joked that he hoped all of the above would get him into heaven.