FILE PHOTO: A drone view shows residential and administrative buildings damaged and destroyed by continued Russian military strikes, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in the town of Toretsk, Donetsk region, Ukraine December 19, 2024. Сonsolidated Brigade 'Khyzhak' of the Ukrainian Patrol Police Department/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo
(Reuters) - President Donald Trump's administration is not sending U.S. troops into Ukraine, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Tuesday.
Speaking with reporters in Germany, Hegseth also said that he would push European allies to spend more on defense when he meets with them this week.
"The European continent deserves to be free from any aggression, but it ought be those in the neighborhood investing the most in that individual and collective defense," Hegseth said.
(Reporting by Idrees Ali and Phil Stewart; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)
