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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy He is preparing to meet with Vice President JD Vance at the Munich Security Conference at the end of this week after confirming Friday that he is ready to “make an agreement” with President Donald Trump.
According to an interview with Reuters, Zelenskyy said he was ready to supply the United States of rare land in exchange for the continuous support of Washington from his war effort.
“If we are talking about an agreement, then let’s make an agreement, we are only in favor,” said Zelenskyy.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that he is ready to “make an agreement” with President Trump on the rare land minerals of Ukraine in exchange for continuous financial support. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)
The Ukrainian president has made it clear that he is also open to participate in peace conversations with Russia to end the three -year war, although the possible terms to ensure a peace agreement remain varied and unknown.
Although Zelenskyy has said that he is looking for “guarantees” when it comes to future security guarantees for the country devastated by war.
It is likely that these security guarantees have to be more than a formal handshake combined with a signed document, since Russia has twice raped its last agreement with Ukraine, known as the 1994 Budapest memorandum.
The agreement saw kyiv deliver his nuclear arsenal to Moscow to dismantle in exchange for sovereignty and independence of the guarantees of Russia, the United States and the United Kingdom, however, the agreement did not prevent Russia from invading Ukraine twice to the Russian president Vladimir Putin .
Zelenskyy apparently first floated the idea of Ukraine mineral resources trade -All 20% of which are now in the controlled territory now Russian, including half of the variety of rare earths, under their “victory plan” presented for the first time to the western allies last autumn, Reuters reported.
Rare earth materials are used in the production of consumer electronics and electric motors. Zelenskyy has warned that Russia could give these resources to its allies as North Korea and Iran, the last of which the United States last week began to sanction even more.
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Former President Donald Trump meets President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Trump Tower, on September 27, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Julia DeMaree Nikhinson)
“We need to stop Putin and protect what we have: a very rich dnipro region, Central Ukraine,” Zelenskyy said.
Although Trump will not attend the Munich Security Conference, Zelenskyy will lead the Ukrainian delegation there and As reported, they are expected to meet With Vance and Special Sent to Ukraine and Russia, the retired Lieutenant Keith Kellogg.
Trump told journalists last week that Zelenskyy can travel to DC in the week after the security conference, which is executed from February 14 to 16, at which time both presidents will meet once again to discuss war.
“I would like to see that end of the war,” Trump told reporters last week. “We are looking to make an agreement with Ukraine, where they will ensure what we are giving them with their rare lands and other things.”
Russia’s war effort in eastern Ukraine continues furious, and Moscow said Friday that the Toretsk Minera City had captured in the Donetsk region despite The attempts of the Ukraine months To stop Russian advances.
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The ruins of the city of Toretsk are in the Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, on December 19, 2024. Russia, on February 7, 2025, said he seized the Mining City. (Ucrinform/Nurphoto through Getty Images)
As Moscow continues to see incremental profits in eastern Ukraine, kyiv is also advancing with his own attempts to confiscate the Russian territory, that security experts have said that Fox News Digital could be an attempt to give it better The leverage of the negotiation comes time for the conversations of Alto el Fuego With Moscow.
Zelenskyy also said on Friday that Ukraine had opened a new offensive in the Kursk region of Russia, where kyiv began his incursion in August 2024.
“In the areas of Kursk’s operation, new assaults have been produced,” Zelenskyy said during his night direction. “Russia has once again deployed North Korean soldiers along with its troops.”
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The Ukrainian forces fight in the Kursk region in Malais Loknya, Russia, in this screenshot obtained from a video released on August 20, 2024. (Brigade/Air Assault Brochure through Reuters)
It is not clear if North Korea has sent more troops to Russia after its initial deployment of up to 12,000 men last October, although South Korean intelligence warned that Pyongyang is planning to do so.
Zelenskyy on Sunday night said that the Ukrainian troops in Kursk “demonstrate a highly effective enemy destruction,” although he did not detail any rate of victims between Russian or North Korean troops.
“We must maintain all our positions firmly,” he said. “The stronger we stop in the front line, the stronger our diplomacy, our work with the partners will be.”
