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.
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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As recently as Monday, the president of the United States, Donald Trump, was repeating that some access to the country’s rare minerals 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.
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 told ABC News that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy plans to visit Washington, DC, Friday.
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