An agreement that provides access to the United States to the critical and rare minerals of Ukraine is “in the 99 -yard line with an inch to travel,” News told NBC News an official of the Superior Administration involved in the negotiations to NBC News.
According to Financial Times and other places, the informed agreement seemed to involve concessions on both sides.
Ukraine has not received the security guarantees that urgently wants to help him defeat the Russian forces; But the United States has not been given $ 500 billion in potential revenues that wanted Kyiv’s deposits, Financial Times reported Tuesday night.
The Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s office did not respond to applications to confirm the news. His office said he should hold a press conference around 6:30 am et.
Signs of an agreement between Washington and Kyiv Come after a week of deterioration of relations between the two countries. President Donald Trump caused outrage in Ukraine and Europe by suggesting an agreement that would effectively use the mineral wealth of Ukraine to pay the United States for military aid delivered during the war.
That was rejected by Zelenskyy, who Trump in turn called a “dictator.” Meanwhile, Trump has repeated the false statement that Ukraine was responsible for being invaded by Russia.
On Tuesday, Trump confirmed that Zelenskyy would visit Washington on Friday.
“Yes, I listen to that,” he said at the Oval office. “I heard will come on Friday.”
Trump has repeatedly criticized the billionaire assistance that provided kyiv under then President Joe Biden. He says that these costs should be signed by European powers, in whose door is the conflict.
Trump said it could be resolved within 24 hours of the large -scale invasion of Russia of Ukraine. He and his assistants have extended this timeline to six months. The senior administration official said on Tuesday that a peace agreement was 30-60 days after the end, without explaining how this ambitious timeline would be achieved.
It was not clear what Ukraine would receive in the new draft according to US military support, but the authorities have suggested that “the mineral agreement is only part of the image”, Olha Stefanishyna, Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Justice of Ukraine that He has led the negotiations told Financial Times.
Ukraine has supported for months the idea of giving Trump access to its richness of critical and rare land elements, which are used for everything, from green technology to modern armament. Zelenskyy expected this to encourage the White House to continue supporting Kyiv with military help, something Trump has questioned in the past.
In a probable appeal to Trump’s transactional merchant suit, Russia simultaneously proposed an agreement under which the United States would obtain some ownership of rare land minerals and other valuable metals in parts of Ukraine controlled by the Russian army, according to two US officials familiar with with intelligence on the matter and another person reported on the proposal.
Matthew Bodner contributed.
