The United States and Ukraine have agreed the terms of a mineral draft in the center of the kyiv impulse to win the support of Washington, since President Donald Trump seeks to quickly end the war with Russia, two sources said with knowledge of the matter on Tuesday .
A source familiar with the content of the eraser of the agreement said that it does not specify any security guarantee of the United States or a continuous flow of weapons, but says that the United States wants Ukraine to be “free, sovereign and safe.”
One of the familiar sources with the agreement said that future arms shipments are still being discussed between Washington and kyiv.
Trump told journalists that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy wants to come to Washington on Friday to sign a “very big problem.” This occurred after the two leaders exchanged hostile words last week.
The president of the United States, who has launched the agreement as a reimbursement of billions of dollars in aid to kyiv, also said that some form of peace maintenance troops in Ukraine are needed if an agreement is reached to put to put end to conflict.
Moscow, who launched an invasion of Ukraine three years ago, has refused to accept any deployment of NATO forces.
Some European countries have said they would be willing to send peace maintenance forces to Ukraine. Trump said Monday that Moscow would accept such maintenance of peace, but Kremlin denied it on Tuesday.
Trump’s haste to impose the end of the Russian war in Ukraine and its wobbled towards Moscow has fueled the fears that the United States’s high range of the United States to the Russian President Vladimir Putin, which could undermine security in Ukraine and Europe and Alter the geopolitical landscape.
Last week, Trump falsely called Zelenskiy an unpopular “dictator” who needed to reduce a fast peace agreement or lose his country. The Ukrainian leader said that the president of the United States lived in a “misinformation bubble.”
The officials on both sides have agreed the draft and advised that they should be signed, the sources said.
The return money for ‘the American taxpayer’
The agreement could open the vast mineral wealth of Ukraine to the United States “what we are doing now we are saying, look, we want to be insured,” Trump said. “The American taxpayer will now recover his money, in addition.”
Zelenskiy refused to sign a previous draft of a mineral agreement while Washington sought rights to $ 500 billion in the natural wealth of Ukraine. Kyiv protested having received much less than that in American aid and the agreement lacked security guaranteed the needs of Ukraine.
According to the terms of a mineral agreement project, according to familiar sources with its contents, the United States and Ukraine would establish a reconstruction investment fund to collect and reinvest the income of Ukrainian sources, including minerals, hydrocarbons and other removable materials.
Ukraine would contribute to the fund of 50 percent of the income except operating expenses and continue until the contributions reach the sum of $ 500 billion.
The United States would provide a long -term financial commitment to the development of a “stable and economically prosperous ukraine.”
When Ukraine would get in exchange for the Mineral Agreement, Trump cited what he said was $ 350 billion already provided by the United States “and much … military teams and the right to fight.”
Scott Anderson, a member of governance studies at Brookings Institution, said that although the mineral agreement would be “a kind of piracy” for much of the world, it is necessary to obtain the acceptance of Trump and republican legislators.
“They say this gives real skin (Trump) in the game. I think there is a real logic in that, ”said Anderson.
European allies fight
“I heard will come on Friday,” Trump told reporters. “It certainly is fine for me if I would like. And he would like to sign him next to me. “
European officials have stopped by Trump’s decisions to maintain conversations about the end of the war in Ukraine with Russia, rejecting both kyiv and Europe, and for the warning of its administration that the United States no longer focused mainly in the security of Europe.
A White House meeting could give Zelenskiy the opportunity to present his case to continue the support of the United States directly to Trump, who last week falsely accused kyiv of starting the war.
Ukraine has deposits of 22 of the 34 minerals identified by the European Union as criticism, according to Ukrainian data. They include industrial and construction materials, Ferroaloy, precious and non -ferrous metals, and some rare earth elements.
The graphite reserves of Ukraine, a key component in batteries of electric vehicles and nuclear reactors, represent 20pc of global resources.
