Ukraine President Volodimir Zelenski announced today that he has received a new version of the fossil of strategic importance from the United States, in which Washington wants to gain access.
“The Ukrainian side (…) officially received the US proposals today,” the Ukrainian president said in a press conference he gave, without revealing details of the new version. According to local media, the proposal is not at all favorable to Ukraine.
The US government has been making a deal for several weeks that the US will gain access to Ukraine’s rare lands in exchange for military and financial aid already provided in Kiev to face the Russian invasion. Ukraine was ready to sign the deal and Zelenski went to Washington in late February but his visit ended up in direct broadcasting with Donald Trump in the Oval Office.
Characterize the document unacceptable
The details of the new version were not officially announced, but Ukrainian MPs and the media criticized it, describing the document “unacceptable”.
According to the Ukrainska Pravda newspaper, “Donald Trump’s team abandoned all the compromise agreed a month ago” and the new text “violates almost all the red lines” of Ukraine, which “lacks part of its national sovereignty” and is obliged to “pay” all.
The agreement makes no reference to security guarantees for Ukraine, as Kiev’s persistently calls for, the newspaper adds.
Zelenski confirmed that this was a “completely different” text from the original version that includes “many things that had not been discussed and some that had already been rejected”.
SOURCE: RES-EIA
