Four American officials on the basis of anonymity reported the details of the agreement that representatives of the US President Donald Trump proposed to Ukraine. It was about transferring 50% of rare earth minerals to the states (which particular deposits were not talking about). At the same time, the United States was ready to send its troops to protect deposits in Ukraine.
President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky did not sign in this form. According to NBC News. " The Minister of Finance of the United States Scott Immentine submitted to President Vladimir Zelensky a proposal for the ownership of the United States by half of the rare earth minerals of Ukraine in the draft contract, which he brought to a meeting on Wednesday in Kyiv, eight US officials informed about the meeting..
After this meeting, the immune said that the draft of the US-Ukrainian agreement on rare-earth minerals reflects the purpose of the president, but he did not provide the details of what the administration proposed.
Zelensky refused to sign a document when immortal introduced it during the meeting, saying that he needed to study it and consult it with others, eight American officials informed about the meeting.
Then the Ukrainian leader said that he and his team will do everything to consider all the details of the document " Vinches and Secretary of State Mark Rubio, as well as US lawmakers in the fields of the Global Security Conference.
The Embassy of Ukraine in Washington and the representative of the White House National Security Council did not immediately respond to requests for comments on Friday. Zelensky during a speech on Friday at a security conference said that his lawyers would evaluate the document that the immortal introduced him in Kyiv, with advice and some changes. He called this proposal to the memorandum between the USA and Ukraine, and not the security agreement.
In recent months, President Donald Trump expressed interest in concluding an agreement with Ukraine, which would provide the United States significant access to its rare -earth minerals, which are used to produce a variety of technological products.
In a recent interview, Fox News Trump said that he wanted the United States to receive Ukrainian rare earth minerals in the amount of $ 500 billion, and made it clear that Kyiv "
The President of Ukraine Zelensky has already spoke to reporters, where he spoke about the USA peacekeeping plan, the Russian Demolian attack on the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, about the deployment of a foreign contingent in Ukraine, etc..
Also, Zelensky and US Vice-President Jay Di Dee Vincent held a meeting in Munich on February 14. Based on the results of negotiations, Wence said that the United States is striving for a long world, and not for a new conflict in Europe in a few years. Zelensky, for his part, spoke about the preparing plan, how to stop the Russian Federation, and emphasized that Ukraine needs real security guarantees.