Posted on May 01, 2025 at 06:19. / Modified May 01, 2025 at 06:45.
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Two months after the spectacular dispute between their presidents Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky, the United States and Ukraine sealed Washington on Wednesday evening an agreement on strategic ores which would be full of the subsoil of the European country assailed by the Russian army. This conclusion confirms the warming of relations between the two partners after weeks of crisis. Donald Trump always hopes to end the war against Ukraine quickly, even at the cost of exorbitant concessions to Russia. It was the Ukrainian government that the first had approached last fall for the future president Donald Trump by making him shim these resources in exchange for the continuation of military aid in the United States.
In the absence of a ceremony at the White House, the Minister of the Ukrainian Economy Yulia Svyrydenko had discreetly made the trip to Washington, where she initialed the agreement. Negotiations lasted until the last moment. In a video message announcing this agreement, Scott Bessent, the secretary of the Treasury, was delighted with a “historical economic partnership establishing an investment and reconstruction fund” which must stimulate the exploitation of Ukrainian resources whose income will be shared between the two countries. The details of this partnership were not communicated. But, according to the Washington Postwho saw the latest version of the agreement, the initial idea of Ukraine debt to the United States for their military support has been abandoned, which the Ukrainian Minister of Economy confirms.
