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At the heart of the discussions for several weeks, the mineral agreement has indeed been approved by kyiv and Washington, Wednesday, April 30, 2025. If the Trump administration is delighted with the events to come, the Democrats have denounced a “extortion”.
Against all expectations, the United States and Ukraine signed, Wednesday, April 30, 2025, an agreement on the common exploitation of the wealth of the Ukrainian subsoil. The quantity of mineral wealth hidden from the Ukrainian soil remains little known, most of which are unexploited.
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The document initialed in Washington by Scott Bessent, the American secretary to the Treasury, and the Vice-Prime Prime Minister Ioulia Svyydenko, provides for a fund for the reconstruction of Ukraine that the two countries will manage jointly. But nothing in the text provides an American security guarantee, however requested by Ukraine on which Volodymyr Zelensky insisted.
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No explicit American security guarantee
Also, this agreement no longer really presents the same initial project. The incessant postponements, caused by the international agenda and the Ukrainian counterpart hanging from the Ukrainian counterpart, was right for certain requests. Hence the qualifier of “extortion” used by the Democrats regarding the final agreement. One of his representatives Gregory Meeks regretted, in a statement, the lack of “pressure” made by the Trump administration vis-à-vis Vladimir Putin.
“Donald Trump has so far shown only weakness, constantly capitulating before Putin, without obtaining anything in return, while focusing his attacks on Zelensky and Ukraine,” it is written.
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“A guarantee of success”, nevertheless rejoices kyiv
Despite this, Ukraine seems to find its account there. “The document in its current form is a guarantee of success for our two countries-Ukraine and United States,” wrote Ioulia SvyryDenko in a message on Facebook, also ensuring that her country would “fully keep the property and control of its natural resources and was exempt from any possible debt.
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This agreement comes in parallel with multiple diplomatic negotiations in progress to find an outcome to the conflict, three years after its trigger by Russia. The document must still be ratified by the Ukrainian parliament after its signature.
