The US will not send its forces to Ukraine as part of a possible peace agreement, the new US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said in Brussels today.
"To be clear, as part of the security guarantees, there will be no US forces deployed in Ukraine," Hegseth said at the start of a meeting of NATO defense ministers in Brussels.
The US minister said that Europe would have to provide massive future assistance to Ukraine and added that the US would no longer tolerate "an unbalanced relationship within NATO."
"The United States remains committed to the Alliance and the defense partnership with Europe. But the United States will no longer tolerate an unbalanced relationship," added Hegseth, who is at NATO headquarters for the first time since taking office.
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said that European NATO members must spend much more on their defense.
"We need to do much more to have what we need for deterrence and defense so that the burden is shared more fairly," Rutte added.
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