NATO faces the pressure for Ukraine without theft while Trump is looking for a peace agreement

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Tuesday that President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy could meet next week on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

Reunion comes as NATO notes increasing pressure to counter Russia more aggressive by applying a zone of air exclusion on Ukraine while Poland seeks to prevent more Russian drones from entering its air space.

“President Trump (had) several calls with Putin, several meetings with Zelenskyy, including probably next week in New York,” Rubio told the journalists of Israel for a few moments before his departure for Qatar. “He tries to do everything possible to end (war).”

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy (L) meets US President Donald Trump in Washington DC, United States on August 19, 2025. (Ukrainian Presidency / Handout / Anadolu via Getty Images)

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“We have worked in close collaboration with our partners in Europe on security guarantees, as this will be necessary in any negotiated regulations,” he added. “And he will continue to try. If peace is possible, he wants to get there.”

Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski called on NATO allies on Monday to enforce an area of ​​air exclusion on Ukraine to better protect Ukrainians from the constant aerial bombing of Russia, but the neighboring NATO allies who share borders with the country destroyed.

“We, as NATO and the EU, could be able to do so, but it is not a decision that Poland can take alone,” Sikorski told the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine. “You can only be done with its allies.”

The movement is It is unlikely to be approved by NATOWho previously refused to apply an air exclusion area after the United States, under President Joe Biden, refused the request made for the first time by Zelenskyy in 2022.

A member of the Polish army inspects a damaged house, after Russian drones violated Polish airspace during an attack on Ukraine and some were killed by Poland, Wyryki, Lublin Voivodeship, Poland, September 10, 2025. (Kacper Pempel / Reuters)

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“If Ukraine should ask us to shoot them on its territory, it would be advantageous for us. If you ask me personally, we should consider it,” said Sikorski.

Russian officials have already specified that they would consider NATO strikes against Russian drones and missiles for the benefit of Ukraine as a direct involvement in war.

“The implementation of the provocative idea of ​​kyiv and other idiots on the creation of a” zone without theft on Ukraine “and the NATO capacity to shoot our UAVs will mean only one thing – a war between NATO and Russia,” said the vice -president of the Russian Security Council on Monday, Dmitry Medvedev, in a telegram.

The Polish soldiers present F-16 fighter planes in Warsaw, Poland during a military parade on the day of the Polish army on August 15, 2024. The parade was to celebrate the day of the Armed Forces of Poland and its 25th year as a member of NATO. (Dominika Zarzycka / Sopa Images / Lightrocket via Getty Images)

Trump experienced growing at home and Western allies, including Ukraine, to adopt a more difficult position when it comes to countering Russian President Vladimir Putin. Trump has many times threatened to strike Moscow with sanctions, although he has not yet used the financial tool since returning to the office despite a series of deadlines he delivered to Putin having and left.

Rubio said Trump could conclude that a peace agreement with Putin is not possible, but told journalists on Tuesday that “he is not yet there”.

President Donald Trump walks with Russian President Vladimir Putin when they arrive at the Elmendorf-Richardson joint base in Anchorage, Alaska, August 15, 2025. (Images Andrew Harnik / Getty)

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“The only world leader who can speak to Ukrainians, Europeans and also to Russians is President Trump,” said Rubio. “He will not easily lose this role.

“If he had to somehow disengage it, or you know, sanction Russia and say” I have finished “, then there is no longer the same thing in the world that could possibly mediate the end,” added Rubio. “Now we may come to this point – we hope not, because it is a very bad war and it wants it to end.”