SpaceWar.com reports: “President Donald Trump said the United States would provide air support for Ukraine’s defense against Russian aggression, but not U.S. troops on the ground.

If the war in Ukraine ends soon, U.S. air support would be available to help ensure its security instead of making Ukraine a NATO member, Trump said on Monday evening.

‘When it comes to security, they are willing to put people on the ground,’ Trump said of Ukraine’s European neighbors in a Fox News interview, as reported by The Hill.

‘We’re willing to help them with things, especially … by air because nobody has [the] stuff we have,’ Trump said.

White House press secretary Karolin Leavitt on Tuesday confirmed Trump ‘definitively’ opposes deploying U.S. troops to Ukraine, The Hill reported.

Instead, Ukraine’s European neighbors and others might support peace by deploying troops there, Axios reported on Tuesday…”