Overview

• Washington would provide intelligence, surveillance, command-and-control and air-defense enablers for a postwar arrangement without deploying American combat troops.
• Senior officials outlined possible contributions to a European-run air-defense shield, including aircraft, radar and logistics support.
• The Pentagon described the measures as pre-decisional and declined to provide further details.
• President Donald Trump told European leaders the U.S. would help with coordination of guarantees and said American backing would likely focus on air power.
• Kyiv urged partners to finalize concrete defense guarantees soon as talks sketch a three-tier framework that includes neutral peacekeepers, a fortified Ukrainian line and a deeper European deterrence force.