Ukraine has agreed the conditions of a minerals with the US in an important step in the direction of a peace scheme, only a few days after rejecting the plans, has been reported.
KYIV officials have said that the country torn by war is now ready to sign an agreement with Washington about the joint development of his critical means, according to the Financial Times.
“Now government officials are working on details,” said a Senior Ukrainian officer. “From now on we are considering a visit to Washington for Friday to sign the agreement.”
It is after the US have dropped controversial requirements for a right of up to $ 500 billion in potential income from the rare earth minerals of Ukraine.
President Zensky refused to sign this first proposal last week – which caused a word war between him and Donald Trump.
The US President called Zensky a 'dictator' and seemed to blame Ukraine for starting the war that entered his fourth year yesterday.
However, it is now assumed that an improved offer has been agreed between the two countries.
According to the Financial Times report, a fund would be established under the new conditions in which Ukraine would contribute 50 percent of the proceeds from the 'future income' of mineral resources of the State.
This would include oil and gas and associated logistics.
Ukraine's President VolodyMyr Zensky speaks during a press conference after supporting the Ukraine top in Kiev, Ukraine, 24 February 2025
World leaders and dignitaries depicted in Kiev who yesterday commemorate the three -year anniversary of war
Trump has been very critical about Zensky since it is appropriate last month
However, it would exclude resources that already contribute to the finances of the Ukrainian government.
It is said that there is also no reference to a guarantee of American safety for Ukraine in the agreement, of which Kyiv said earlier they were needed to agree on a deal.
Ukrainian officials told the Financial Times that the proposal had received all the green light due to the justice, economy and ministers of the country.
Olha Stefanishyna, the Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine, who led the negotiations, said: “The mineral agreement is only part of the image.
“We have heard from the American administration several times that it is part of a larger picture.”
The agreement of minerals dealing with Ukraine is one of the most important demands of President Trump in every peace scheme to end the war.
It is hoped that such an agreement would pave the way for long -term protection in the long term for Ukraine.
However, Ukrainian officials have maintained that the deal is a 'framework agreement' and that no income from the owner will change until the fund is set up.
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
Russian President Vladimir Putin depicted on December 26 last year during a meeting north of St. Petersburg
Ukrainian firefighters are working on extinguishing a fire in the midst of a building after Russian shelling in the city of Kostianyynivka
A dozen leaders from Europe and Canada gathered yesterday in the capital of Ukraine on the occasion of the third anniversary of the entire invasion of Russia.
President Trump, however, was remarkably absent when he met French President Emmanuel Macron in Washington.
A Ukrainian agreement with an 'economic dedication' with the US was first driven by Zensky himself as part of his 'victory plan' to the Western allies 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 an American proposal that was seen by the Telegraph, the contract that was offered earlier this month would have taken the US 50 percent of the income that Ukraine received through the extraction of natural resources.
It would also have granted the US 50 percent 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.
French President Emmanuel Macron leaves the White House after participating in a G7 Leader Summit Call with US President Donald Trump in Washington, DC, US, 24 February 2025
Ukrainian President VolodyMyr Zensky (R) speaks to the press during his meeting with the American Minister of Finance Scott Bessent
Furthermore, it seemed that Trump expected that he would receive '$ 500 billion' in Ukrainian natural resources as a repayment for military, financial and humanitarian aid that was offered to KYIV since the start of the full invasion of Russia.
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.
In the days after the Ukrainian president refused to sign the unfavorable deal, his relationship with Trump took a dip.
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.
