The agreement between Washington and kyiv for which the United States will benefit from the privileged access to natural resources of Ukraine, especially to rare earths, is “in the final stages”, as announced by the vice -first Ukrainian minister Olga Stefaníshina.
“The teams of Ukraine and the US are in the final phase of the negotiations on the agreement for the minerals,” he published in his ‘X’ Stefaníshina account, which was part of the group of Ukrainian leaders present on Sunday at a distance meeting with Members of the US President Donald Trump’s administration.
The United States proposal was presented this month to kyiv, which had so far declined signing it because it did not include security guarantees, but a 50% benefit for the US of the exploitation of Ukrainian natural resources such as gas, aluminum, aluminum, aluminum Uranium, lithium or rare earths. Donald Trump wants to recover the money spent by the US to help Ukraine.
Precisely, the new president of the United States has advanced Monday, after meeting with Emmanuel Macron in the White House, which President Zelenski could travel to the White House in the next few days to “sign an agreement” of rare earths as part of A major pact focused on guaranteeing peace and ending 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.
Finally, Trump has pointed out that he would also like to meet “at some point” with the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin. “I don’t know when we will talk. We are trying to make all this work,” added the US president, whose administration has fed in recent days the possibility of a meeting with Putin.
