Volodyymyr Zenskyr broke furiously with a senior member of the government of Donald Trump and made him vibrate of fear, because the US and Ukraine inch closer to a deal to end the Ukraine war.
Earlier this month, Trump sent his newly beaten Minister of Finance Scott Bessent to Kyiv to present the Ukrainian leader a deal.
Bessent suggested an exchange – part of the great mineral wealth of Ukraine for long -term security guarantees against future Russian attacks.
But when the contract is revised in detail, Zensky and his assistants discovered that such security guarantees were not included in the deal.
Instead of a mutual affordable agreement between allies, the contract is said to be more exploiting than the conditions imposed on Germany after the First World War- in expectations of Ukraine that huge amounts of oil, gas and mineral resources give up as a payment For American assistance under the Biden administration.
Reminder of the president's anger, the Ukrainian legislators claimed that the Balg of Zensky was echoed by the corridors of the presidential palace of Kyiv while he was berry because he expected his country to sell to Washington.
“He was very angry,” a person present told the Financial Times and explained how the gilded doors of the Presidential Office of Zensky did nothing to prevent those outside to hear every word of the verbal report.
Bessent was visibly shocked, his voice vibrated when he made a stumbling statement to reporters just after ending the anger of the Ukrainian president.
Bessent was visibly shocked, his voice vibrated when he delivered a stumbling statement to reporters just after ending the wrath of the Ukrainian president
Ukraine President VolodyMyr Zensky speaks during a press conference on February 23, 2025 in Kiev, Ukraine
Ukrainian soldiers walk on the road to their base near the front line in the Donetsk region
Trump has been very critical about Zensky since he took office
Prior to his presidential narrative, Bessent had said that an agreement with an 'economic obligation' with the US would grant a 'long -term safety shield' provided by Washington.
The idea was first driven by Zensky himself as part of his 'victory plan' for Western allies and the parliament of Ukraine in October.
At that time, the Ukrainian president said that Ukraine could sign an agreement with the US, the EU and other unnamed allies who would make joint investments and use of the natural resources of Ukraine possible.
But according to a private design of the proposal of Bessent that was seen by De Telegraaf, the contract that was offered earlier this month would have taken the US 50% of Ukraine's income through the extraction of natural resources.
It would also have granted the US 50% of the financial value of 'all new licenses issued to third parties' for the future income of these resources.
Such a deal would have been extremely difficult for KYIV to stomach, even if it had come with concrete and detailed promises of long -term security guarantees provided by Washington.
But it seems that Trump is expected to receive '$ 500 billion' in Ukrainian natural resources as a reimbursement for military, financial and humanitarian aid that is offered to KYIV since the start of Russia's full invasion.
This figure seems to have been picked from the Ether because the US's own congress reporting service is the total of American aid for Ukraine to date shows a total of $ 174.2 billion.
Zensky later claimed that only about $ 75 billion of this was military aid.
Since the Ukrainian president, the very unfavorable deal has refused to sign his relationship with Trump.
Last week Trump called his Ukrainian counterpart 'a dictator without elections' as part of a shocking tirade posted on his social social platform.
That accusation came only a few hours after Zensky said that the leader of the free world had fallen prey to a Russian disinformation campaign when Trump wrongly stated that his Ukrainian counterpart was 'lower with an approval rating of four percent'.
'Remember, a modest successful comedian, Volodymyr Zenskyy, the United States of America spoke to spend $ 350 billion dollars, to go into a war that could not be won, who never had to start, but a war he , Without the US and 'Trump' will never be able to settle, “wrote Trump.
“I love Ukraine, but Zenskyy has done the terrible work, his country has been crushed and millions have died unnecessarily – and so it continues …” He placed a series of claims that have been completely untrue since then.
However, it seems that the rocky start of Kyiv's relationship with the Trump administration is being smoothed.
This morning the Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine of the European and Euro-Atlantic integration of Ukraine, Olha Stefanishyna, which was about to sign a new mineral for security agreement with Washington.
Ukrainian President VolodyMyr Zensky (R) speaks to the press during his meeting with the American Minister of Finance Scott Bessent
Rescuers of the emergency aid work to extinguish a fire in a building after a drone attack in Kharkiv, on January 28, 2025, amidst the Russian invasion in Ukraine
US President Donald Trump speaks during the signing of executive orders in his Mar-A-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, on February 18, 2025
'Ukrainian and American teams are in the last stages of negotiations with regard to the mineral agreement. The negotiations were very constructive, with almost all important details, “she said.
'We are dedicated to quickly complete this to continue with the signature. We hope that both we and UA leaders can sign and endorse it in Washington, the fastest to show our commitment to the next decades. '
She did not give any further details, but it is expected that every minerals-for-secured deal who is willing to sign Zensky must contain considerable guarantees of protection against future Russian aggression.
Zakensky focused on civil servants in Kiev in Kiev on the third anniversary of the full invasion of Russia and confirmed that the first version of the deal was deleted.
“The question of $ 500 billion is no longer there,” he said.
He further emphasized that treating help as a debt could make a dangerously precedent, which may require Ukraine to repay all his allies.
“We don't recognize the debt,” Zentensky confirmed. 'It will not be in the final format of the agreement.
“I know we have received £ 100 million. It's a fact. I will not recognize $ 500 billion in the US. '
The Ukrainian president also confirmed that he would be willing to make his position if it meant that his country could earn the accession to NATO.
“I am aimed at safety in Ukraine here and today – I don't stay in power for decades,” he said.
Ukrainian legislators have long pronounced the wish to enter the transatlantic security block as the solution to prevent future attacks from Russia.
But the Trump government has made it clear that KYIV cannot expect him to join NATO and, instead, to negotiate individual security guarantees, mainly with European partners.
