OR Ukraine and USA will discuss ‘this week’ strategic agreement on mineralsas announced today (07.04.2025) by the Ukrainian government, with the aim of “negotiating” to sign it.
Ukraine officials will travel to Washington and hold high -level talks with their US counterparts on Agreement in mineralsfor which the US wants to ensure privileged access to in return for help they gave to the Kyiv after the invasion of the Russian forces.
OR Ukrainian team will have a mission to ‘go ahead with negotiations’ on this’strategic ‘text and will include representatives of the ‘Ministries of Economy, Foreign and Justiceยป, Ukrainian government vice president Julia Svirindenko said in a post on social media.
THE Ukrainian American “dialogue” On this text for Ukraine’s rare land reflects “our common commitment to build a solid and transparent partnership“Svirindenko assured, while the new version of this document has been described by many media and Ukrainian MPs as a very disadvantaged for Kiev.
Ukraine received in late March new version of this textwhile the signing of a first framework agreement in this direction failed in February, after Spectacular verbal confrontation between Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenski and American Donald Trump in White House.
On March 30, 2025, Trump had warned Zelenski he would have “serious problems” in the case rejection of text his.
The US President It claims this agreement as compensation for military and financial assistance granted to Ukraine From his predecessor to the US Presidency, Joe Biden, since the Russian forces invaded Ukraine three years ago.
The Kiev insists on his part in the need to include US security guarantees for Ukrainia in order to Avoid any Russian attack to future. According to the media, in the new version of the document There are no such guarantees mentioned.
Pursuing her keep her military aid her Washington In spite of the rehearsal of relations with Russia which is attempted by Donald Trump, the Ukrainian governmental officials abstained to a large extent from the to criticize publicly this new text.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Simbica was confined to declare on April 1, 2025 that the His country would like to end up in a ‘reciprocal acceptable’ agreement with the USunderlining at the same time that could “in no way” undo Ukraine’s commitments to the European Unionin which he hopes to join the coming years.