Ukraine and the United States have agreed the terms of an agreement related to critical minerals and other resources, according to a senior Ukrainian official.
Although Ukraine has said that he agreed the agreement, President Donald Trump did not confirm that the United States had still agreed, instead, he had heard Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visit Washington, DC, to end the agreement on Friday and that “It’s fine with me if you would like.
“And he would like to sign him next to me,” he added. “And I understand that it is a big problem, a big problem.”
However, later, he said, “we have negotiated our treatment in Earth Raw.”
The officials familiar with the negotiations told ABC News that the United States and Ukraine are 99.9% there in the agreement. Even so, the agreement will not end until the presidents put their signatures, which is expected to happen as soon as Friday, when they are.
President Donald Trump, the Oval Office in Washington, on February 25, 2025 and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv, Ukraine, February 24, 2025.
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As recently as Monday, Trump was repeating that certain access to rare land minerals of Ukraine would be necessary to ensure an agreement that involves the continuous support of the nation to Ukraine. Trump referred to them as a “security” against the investments that the United States has already made and could do in the future, although his statements of how much help have provided the United States to date has been widely disputed.
Trump said the United States has spent $ 350 billion in Ukraine, although he has not summoned where he received that figure.
The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, listens during a press conference at a security summit in kyiv, Ukraine, on February 24, 2025.
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Government’s resources place the amount of help assigned by Congress for Ukraine since the war began in 2022 at $ 174 billion.
“That is why we must have an agreement with Ukraine on critical minerals and rare earths and several other things such as security. And I think that is happening. I think we have progressed a lot,” Trump said Monday during a group conference set with the President of France, Emmanuel Macron. The two leaders gathered to discuss a path to the resolution of the War of Russia-Ukraine, which entered their third year this month.
The senior official also confirmed to ABC News that Zelenskyy plans to visit Washington on Friday.
