Yesterday, US President Donald Trump threatened his Ukrainian colleague Vladimir Zelensky, if he decides to withdraw from the agreement on rare -earth metals. But today the head of the White House is convinced that Kyiv is again tuned to negotiations.

“I see that he is trying to renew the agreement on rare -earth metals,” Trump said, reports “Suprilna”. -You know, we did something, because, as you know, Europeans return the money that they [Ukrainians] gave them. We are not "

During the visit of France President Emmanuel Macron to the White House at the end of February, Trump also stated that “Europe gets back the money”, which “lent” to Ukraine, referring to help, including military. After that, Macron interrupted his colleague and denied his words.

" In fact, to be frank, we paid. We paid 60% of the total amount. It was like the United States: loans, guarantees, grants, ”the president of France said then. - We have 230 billion dollars of frozen assets in Europe, Russian assets. But this is not a security for a loan, because it is not our property. Therefore, they are frozen "

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Recall that after the skirmish in the White House, the USA and Ukraine resumed negotiations on the signing of an agreement on the joint production of rare earth metals. However, the new document instead of four pages has 60 and, according to Zn. UA, applies to actually all minerals of Ukraine, infrastructure related to them, and part of the ports for their export. Although Kyiv did not officially publish the text of the agreement, President Vladimir Zelensky warned that the state did not recognize the already provided military assistance to the United States as a duty. He also confirmed that the new option has changed a lot and contains that the parties have already discarded.