Ukraine – USA negotiates the final stage of mineral agreement

“The Ukrainian and American side is in the final stage of negotiations on mineral agreements. On x 24/2.

Stefanishyna said Ukraine committed to quickly completing the content of the mineral agreement with the US to be able to proceed to sign. Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine hopes that President Volodymyr Zelensky and US counterparts Donald Trump will sign this agreement in Washington “to express our commitments for decades”.

The Ukrainian president said that he wanted to receive specific security guarantee from the US to allow Washington to access Kiev’s important resources. Mr. Trump, meanwhile, asked Ukraine to approach the important mineral source to compensate for the aid it had received under former President Joe Biden.

US Trade Secretary Howard Lutnick made a proposal to force Ukraine to pay US $ 500 billion to the US with revenue from natural resources and strategic infrastructure. Zelensky on February 23 criticized this idea, saying that this was a proposal to force people in the country to pay 250 years.

It is not clear whether the mineral agreement that the two sides negotiating is different from the version of Minister Lutnick or not.

The Ukrainian -US relationship has occurred many conflicts since Mr. Trump came to power. The White House boss contacted the Russian leader before the Ukrainian leader, to the Washington – Moscow delegation to negotiate his own and also attacked Mr. Zelensky as “dictatorship”.