Ukraine and USA in accordance with the terms of the main mineral agreements

Ukraine has agreed the terms of an important mineral agreement with the United States, said a senior official in kyiv to the BBC.

“In fact, we have agreed with a series of good amendments and we see it as a positive result,” said the official, without providing more details.

Media reports say that Washington has withdraw War, a key Ukrainian demand.

The president of the United States, Donald Trump, said he expected his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky in Washington to sign the agreement this week, after the two leaders exchanged strong words with each other.

Last week, Trump described Zelensky as a “dictator”, and seemed to blame Ukraine, not Russia, to begin the war, after the Ukrainian leader rejected the US demands of $ 500 billion in mineral wealth and suggested that the US President lived in a “misinformation space” created by Russia.

Trump has been pressing for access to Ukraine minerals in exchange for military aid and another aid to the country since Moscow launched a large -scale invasion three years ago.

Zelensky argued that he had not provided so much American help, and added: “I cannot sell our state.”

On Tuesday, Trump said the United States had given Ukraine between $ 300 billion and $ 350 billion.

“We want to recover that money,” he told reporters. “We are helping the country to overcome a very big problem … but the American taxpayer will now recover his money and.”

The Vice Primer Minister of Ukraine, Olha Stefanishyna, told Financial Times, who first reported the Mineral Agreement on Tuesday, that the agreement was “only part of the image.”

“We have heard several times from the US administration that is part of a larger image,” said Stefanishyna, who has directed the negotiations.

According to Ukrainian sources, the United States has had to go back from some of its most expensive demands in the nation devastated by war and many of the details of this agreement will require greater negotiation.

The precedent, however, is established. American help in Trump’s era comes with attached ropes. Help for the good of aid, either for humanitarian or strategic reasons, is a thing of the past.

That represents a fundamental rearrangement of American foreign policy for more than 75 years, from the days of the Marshall Plan to the idealism after war and the “Freedom Agenda” of George Warbs to promote global democracy.

Ukraine is just the beginning. Wait that Trump and his foreign policy team apply their “America first” in the world during the next four years.

The Ukraine news site, Ukrainska Pravda, reported that the Minerals Agreement was signed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Andrii Sybiha, and the Secretary of State of the United States, Marco Rubio.

The EP of the Economy Unit of the News Site said that the two countries had also agreed to establish a reconstruction investment fund.

Ukraine has huge deposits of critical elements and minerals, including lithium and titanium, as well as the important deposits of coal, gas, oil and uranium, supplies billions of dollars.

Last year, Zelensky presented a “Victoria Plan” to Ukraine and its Western partners, which proposed that foreign companies could access some of the countries of mineral wealth at the end of the war.

Tuesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin said he was open to offering the United States to rare minerals, even the regions occupied by Russia of Ukraine.

Ukraine and his European allies have been increasingly alarmed by a recent thaw in American Russian ties, including their bilateral conversations in Saudi Arabia last week.

There is concern in kyiv and throughout Europe that they could be excluded from any negotiation aimed at ending the war, and that the future security of the continent as a whole could decide behind it.

It is estimated that approximately 5% of the “critical raw materials” in the world are in Ukraine, which include:

• 19 million tons of tested graphite reserves, which is used to make batteries for electric vehicles

• A third of all European lithium deposits, the key component in current batteries.

Before Russia’s large -scale invasion began three years ago, Ukraine also produced 7% of the world titanium, used in construction for everything, from airplanes to power plants.

The Ukrainian land also contains significant deposits of rare earth metals, a group of 17 elements that are used to produce weapons, wind turbines, electronics and other vital products in the modern world

Russia have seized some mineral deposits. According to Yulia Svydenko, Minister of Economy of Ukraine, resources worth $ 350 billion remain in territories occupied by Russian today.