“Ukraine has abandoned the US demand for the establishment of $ 500 billion, which would be part of the Washington Agreement with a country’s mineral resources. Source: Bloomberg with reference to the Ukrainian official, “European Truth” details: this fund should compensate the US assistance they provided to combat Russian aggression.”, – WRITE: www.pravda.com.ua
Source: Bloomberg with reference to Ukrainian official, “European Truth”
Details: This fund would have to compensate the US assistance they provided to combat Russian aggression. Ukraine states that the actual amount of the allocated assistance is about five times less and is more than $ 90 billion, the agency’s interlocutor on anonymity said.
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Another person familiar with the course of negotiations reported that the parties need more time to complete the agreement, since the current project proposed by the United States contains some questionable elements, and President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy is not ready to approve it.
US President Donald Trump puts pressure on Zelensky to accept the deal. On Saturday, he stated that two countries are “very close” to reaching the agreement.
US Finance Minister Scott Bessent wrote on Saturday in Financial Times, which the agreement stipulates that the revenues received by the government in Kiev from natural resources, infrastructure and other assets will be directed to the Foundation focused on long -term reconstruction and development of Ukraine in which the US will have economic and management rights.
This will provide transparency, accountability and corporate governance necessary to attract private investment, writes Bessent.
“Let’s also clearly define what it is. The US will not enter the property of physical assets in Ukraine. They will also not burden Ukraine with even more debt,” Bessent wrote.
Ukrainian officials discussed a potential mineral resource agreement with a special US governor Kit Kellogg during his visit to Kiev this week, after Zelensky rejected Washington’s initial proposal at the beginning of the month.
The lack of guarantees of future military and financial assistance from the United States remains a stumbling block in negotiations, said the Ukrainian official.
In an interview with Bloomberg Television earlier this week, Bessent said that a mineral agreement would establish a basis for Trump’s planned war plan by attaching Ukraine to the United States through economic ties, thus providing a security shield.
The US pressure on Ukraine in order to sign the agreement is against a number of Trump’s statements, which have put Zelensky in an uncomfortable position.
The US President also made it clear that he wanted to negotiate with Moscow on how to put an end to the war without Ukraine at the table of negotiations, and called the democratically chosen Zelensky “dictator” with a rating of 4%.
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