The president of the United States, Donald Trump, has advanced Monday that his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodimir Zelenski, could travel in the next few days to the White House to “sign an agreement” of rare earths as part of a major pact focused on guaranteeing the peace and end the Russian invasion.
“I’m going to meet with President Zelenski. In fact, you can come this week or next week to sign the agreement, it would be great. I would like to meet him in the oval office. We are working on the agreement, we are very close to an agreement Final, which will include rare earths and other things.
Thus, the US president has left the door open to future “peace maintenance missions” in Ukraine once an agreement between Moscow and kyiv has been reached. “Once peace is signed, Russia will return to its business, and the same will do Ukraine and Europe,” he said
However, Oleh Pendzin, a member of the Economic Discussion Club, has affirmed that if the agreement on mineral resources is signed, the total debt of Ukraine will amount to $ 266,000 million, as reported .
The expert explained that the main objective of the so -called “Mineral Agreement” is that Ukraine recognizes a debt with the United States for the financial aid granted during the Biden administration as help to deal with the Russian invasion ordered by the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, In February 2022. This, according to the same medium, currently amounts to 100,000 million dollars.
“Annual Ukraine payments for the rent derived from the extraction of minerals amount to about 2,000 million dollars. If 50% of these payments will be used for a United States controlled fund, they would amount to about 1,000 million dollars a year. Since Ukraine has received 100,000 million dollars in grants since 2022, this would mean that Ukraine would be paying the United States for the next 100 years, “he said Pendzin.
Currently, Ukraine’s total debt amounts to 166,000 million dollars, while its annual GDP is approximately 180,000 million dollars, which means that sovereign debt already represents around 80% of GDP.
“If any Ukrainian politician accepted this debt, the total liabilities of Ukraine would shoot at 266,000 million dollars, with a GDP of just 180,000 million dollars. We have never had a debt of 100,000 million dollars. According to Ukrainian legislation, this would cause significant damage to the state budget, ”said Pendzin.
