The Ukrainian president, has celebrated a press conference in kyiv in which He has amended the flat to his US counterpart, Donald Trump. The American has affirmed that he hopes Ukraine pays with his Natural Resources (Famous) The amount of the aid offered to kyiv by Washington. Trump estimated at 500,000 million dollars the benefit that his country must obtain from Ukrainian natural resources.
Zelenski, however, refuted the figures on the amount of the aid to the US mentioned by President Trump. “We have to clarify those numbers. Unfortunately, they do not match reality. War has cost us 320,000 million (dollars); 120,000 million covered by Ukrainian taxpayers and 200,000 million supplied by the US and the EUespecially to military aid, ”said the president.
The Ukrainian president explained that the United States contribution has been 67,000 million dollars in military assistance and 31,500 in direct aid to the Ukrainian budget. An aid for which Zelenski was “grateful.” “But You cannot count up to 500,000 million dollars and say: ‘return us 500,000 million dollars in minerals’; That is not a serious discussion“, warning.
Zelenski reiterated that Ukraine is ready to discuss the agreement proposed by the United States on natural resources provided that Washington offers security guarantees. The United States Treasury Secretary Scott Besent, delivered a draft of the agreement to kyiv on February 12, but Ukraine He refused to sign it unless the document included commitments of Clear security. United States has asked to keep half Of the natural resources available to Ukraine, says Zelenski.
“The document was not clear, It was only clear in one thing, that we had to give 50% of everything specified in the document“He said in the same press conference. Zelenski was willing to publish the proposal presented by the USA. “I don’t think that helps our relationships”, The Ukrainian President said, according to the Ukrainian public agency, UKRinform.
