Agreement on the critical minerals will sign next Thursday (24.4.2025), the US and Ukraine, according to a statement by the US president Donald Trump.
“We have an agreement on minerals, which I suppose will be signed on Thursday and I guess they will comply with the deal,” Trump said during today’s (17.4.2025) meeting with Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni at the Oval Office, according to Bloomberg.
The announcement restores the deal -which collapsed after the collision of Ukrainian President Voludimir Zelenski with Trump at the Oval Office – in implementation and indicates that the two sides have agreed to the basic terms of the agreement which will regulate post -war plans for the exploitation of the country’s mineral resources and the reconstruction of its infrastructure.
The deal comes as Trump swings between Moscow and Kiev to fail to finish the war, which began with Russia’s full -scale invasion into its neighboring country in 2022. Trump has requested a US-Ukraine Common Development Agreement as a compensation For the weapons and the other help provided by the US under the chairmanship of Joe Biden.
Cooperation Agreement will provide the US The first right over profits to be transferred to a special reconstruction investment fundwhich will be controlled by Washington. In the negotiations, Kiev has pushed for more favorable terms and refuses to recognize the previous US aid as debt.
Following a round of negotiations in Washington, the Trump government reduced its assessment of the US provided by the US in Kiev since the start of Russia’s full invasion, from $ 300 billion to about $ 100 billion. The new estimate is more close to Ukrainian, which exceeds $ 90 billion.
Trump withdrew from his recent statements, in which he attributed responsibility for the war in Ukraine in Zelenski -and continued to exercise review to the Ukrainian leader.
“I don’t consider Zelensky responsible, but I’m not exactly excited about the fact that the war started,” Trump said, adding that He is not happy with Zelenski because of the bloody report of war.
“I wouldn’t say he has done the best job,” Trump said, stating that He is not his fan.
However, according to Trump, his attention was focused on convincing Russian leader Vladimir Putin to agree to end conflict. “I try to make him stop because as you know, Russia is much greater.”the US president commented.