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Kiev's security in Rubio's hands. Trump chose him because "he's a Kissinger who doesn't leak anything confidential"

2025-08-20 14:54:14Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Kiev's security in Rubio's hands. Trump chose him because
Marco Rubio

Viviana Mazza - Corriere della Sera

Marco Rubio will lead a task force tasked with drafting a proposal for security guarantees for Ukraine. European sources have told reporters that these guarantees would have four components: military presence, air defense, weapons and monitoring of the cessation of hostilities.

Rubio, who holds both the posts of Secretary of State and National Security Advisor, a combined role previously held only by Henry Kissinger (Trump has called him 'a Kissinger who doesn't leak anything confidential'), gave four television interviews on Sunday, just after returning from Alaska, and another last night after the summit with Zelensky and the Europeans.

He is considered the best-placed person in the administration to explain Trump's foreign policy, because of his long experience as a senator on these issues and perhaps also because he was once an 'old-school' Republican and an 'eagle' against Russia. On the issue of territorial concessions, he told Fox News: 'It's not easy and maybe not even fair, but it's necessary to end the war.'

The task force is made up of American, European and Ukrainian national security advisers, as well as NATO representatives. According to Zelensky, within about ten days they are expected to draft a detailed proposal for security guarantees, which will also determine who is willing to take on what within the 'Coalition of the Willing'. Rubio said that talks with European national security advisers began on Saturday.

“For the military presence, one solution would be to deploy 15,000 to 20,000 European troops in Ukraine,” Camille Grand, a former NATO assistant secretary general who has studied possible options for security guarantees, told the New York Times. The soldiers of the so-called ‘security force,’ stationed far from the front lines, would support the Ukrainian army. Other countries could send unarmed observers to the border, aided by satellite surveillance and drones.

"We are working with our European allies and also with non-European countries to build these security guarantees," Rubio told Fox. According to the website Axios, Putin, saying in Alaska that he is ready to discuss the 'principle of security guarantees', mentioned China as one of the possible guarantors.

As for the United States, it could provide operational intelligence and perhaps training to the Ukrainians without sending troops. However, Grand notes, if things get worse, it would be good to have a formal commitment ‘that the Americans will not sit idly by’. There has been talk of something akin to NATO’s ‘Article 5’, which would ideally include a commitment to use US air and naval power. The Europeans, if they send troops to Ukraine, also want America to keep its troops on NATO’s eastern flank.

The involvement of NATO military leaders is essential in the planning. They will meet today to assess existing options for security guarantees. General Alexus Grynkewich, supreme commander of NATO and US forces in Europe, will communicate the results of the meeting with Putin. Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone, chairman of the NATO military committee, has said that a video conference will take place. General Dan Caine, chief of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, may participate. By order of Defense Minister Guido Crosetto, the Chief of the Italian Defense Staff, General Luciano Portolano, will take part in the talks with military representatives of the countries that were at the summit two days ago.

As for weapons, as part of the deal on guarantees, according to the Financial Times, Kiev has proposed to Trump a $100 billion purchase of them, financed by Europe. The proposal also foresees a $50 billion deal for the joint production of drones between Ukrainians and Americans.


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