Washington – The United States and Ukraine on Wednesday signed an agreement to provide American access to huge mineral resources in Ukraine, which was anxious that President Donald Trump could support Kiev’s continued military assistance in anxiety that could bring back support for the ongoing peace talks with Russia.
Both sides simply provided the Barebone details about the framework of the contract, which they called the United States-Ukraine re-investing fund. However, the United States is expected to give access to Ukraine’s valuable rare earth minerals when providing a measure of assurance about American support in its grinding war with Russia.
Treasury Secretary Scott Besent said in a statement, “The agreement clearly indicates to Russia that the Trump administration is committed to a peaceful, sovereign and prosperous Ukraine in a long -term,” Treasury Secretary Scott Besent said in a statement. “President Trump imagined this partnership between the American people and the Ukrainian people to show the promise of both sides to the long -lasting peace and prosperity of Ukraine.”
The announcement came in an important moment of the three -year war when Trump became gradually frustrated with both sides. The signature came up two months after President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vans and Ukrainian President Vloadimire Jelnsk were involved in an exciting Oval Office meeting.
Trump has long criticized Jensky that he did not have “cards” to win the war and blamed him to prolong the killings without leaving Crimea, but in recent days Russian President Vladimir Putin had also criticized that he was a very bad time to launch deadly striks on the KV.
Trump said on Wednesday night in Newzment that “on theory based” this agreement would mean more than contributing to Ukraine to the United States. “I wanted to be protected,” he said, “He does not want to see” fools “without getting the money back for investment,” he said.
For Ukraine, the deal is seen as the original to ensure its access to the future US military assistance.
Prime Minister Denis Shmihal said, “In fact, this is a strategic agreement to create an investment partner fund.” “This is truly an equal and good international agreement in the case of joint investment in Ukraine’s development and recovery between the US and Ukraine governments.”
Ukrainian Economy Minister Yulia Sovridenco has traveled to Washington on Wednesday to help finalize the agreement.
“Together with the United States we are making funds that will attract global investment in our country,” he said in a post of X after signing.
Earlier on Wednesday, a cabinet meeting at the Besent White House said – Ukrainian officials indicated that an agreement was almost final – still needed to work.
“Ukrainians decided to change some last -minute change last night,” Basent asked about this report that Ukraine was ready to agree with the agreement. “We’re sure they will rewrite it. And if they are, we are ready to sign this afternoon” “
He did not give details about the late Ukraine changed.
In the United States, more than 20 raw materials are seeking access to more than 20 raw materials that are strategically critical, including oil and natural gas. It contains Titanium deposits in Ukraine, which is used to produce aircraft’s wings and other space production, and uranium, which is used for nuclear energy, treatment equipment and weapons. Ukraine lithium, graphite and manganese are also used in electric vehicle batteries.
After Kiev felt the initial US draft of this agreement unnecessarily, it introduced new provisions to solve these concerns.
According to Shamihal, the latest version will establish an equal partnership between the two countries and will last for 10 years. Financial contribution to a joint fund will be made in cash and only the new US military assistance will be calculated for American shares. The assistance provided before signing the agreement will not be calculated. Against the previous draft, the agreement will not dispute with the path of Ukraine towards European Union membership – this is the main provision of Kiev.
The Ukrainian Cabinet approved the agreement on Wednesday, empowering Censusco to sign Washington. This agreement still needs to be approved by the Ukrainian Parliament before the implementation.
Washington’s push to stop the war has been discussed in rocky progress.
Putin Backs called for a ceasefire before the peace talks, “but before it ends it is necessary to answer a few questions and pick up a few summaries,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. He added that Putin is ready for direct discussion without the prerequisite for a peace deal with Ukraine, he added.
“We understand that Washington wants to make fast progress, but we realize that the Ukrainian crisis is very complicated to settle the crisis,” Peskov said during his constant conference with journalists.
Trump has expressed disappointment at the slowdown of the discussion to stop the war. Western European leaders have complained of stalling Putin when its forces want to occupy more Ukrainian land. Russia has occupied about fifth of Ukraine since the Moscow forces launched a full-scale invasion on February 24, 2022.
Trump has long been a waste of life and dismissed as American taxpayers – a complaint he repeated on his cabinet meeting on Wednesday. It can end important military assistance for heavy economic sanctions on Ukraine and Russia.
On Tuesday, the US State Department tried to push both sides to move faster and warned that the United States could go out of negotiations if no progress was made.
Department spokesman Tamie Bruce needs to provide concrete proposals about how to finish concrete proposals about telling him, the concrete proposes need to be provided by the two parties, “
Russia has effectively rejected the US proposal for an instant and full 30 -day full ceasefire, which has turned Ukraine’s solidarity efforts and Kiev to stop Western weapons.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Wednesday claimed that Ukraine had only taken an unconditional ceasefire because it was pushed back to the battlefield, where the upper hands of the larger Russian forces.
Meanwhile, a UN report presented in New York on Tuesday said that Ukrainian civilians were killed or injured in the daily attack this year this year.
The UN Human Rights Office reports that in the first three months of this year, it has verified the 2,644 civilian casualties in Ukraine. It was about 900 more than the same period last year.
Also, between April 1-24, the cases of Ukraine’s civilian casualties increased by 46% compared to the same week in 2024, it said.
The Daily Grind of the War shows no sign of leaving. Ukraine’s second largest city, Kharkiv, was injured at least five citizens in the night, Ukrainian officials said.
On Wednesday, the Ukrainian protection service claimed that its drones hit the Murum Instrument Engineering Plant overnight in the Vladimir region of Russia, causing five explosions and a fire on military facilities. The claim could not be verified independently.
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Kulb and Arhirova reported from Kyiv in Ukraine. Associated Press writer Fatima Hussein contributed to the report in Washington.
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