After a dispute movement in US raw material agreements with Ukraine

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After a dispute movement in US raw material agreements with Ukraine

For days, US President Trump has covered Ukrainian head of state Selenskyj with hair-raising insults. Possible background: the negotiations on the wealth of Ukraine.

After days of dispute between the United States and Ukraine, there is movement in the question of a raw material agreement. “Ukraine is ready for a strong, effective investment and security agreement with the President of the United States,” wrote the Ukrainian head of state Wolodymyr Selenskyj on the X.

Previously, he had met the special envoy of US President Donald Trump for Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, in Kiev. The meeting was productive, the discussion with Kellogg was good, said Selenskyj. However, Kellogg did not go to the press with Selenskyj as planned. A press conference was canceled at the request of the US side, as Ukrainian media reported.

Trump ties US aid for the Ukraine attacked by Russia, access to their stocks of rare earths. The occurrences are considered economically lucrative and strategically significant. Selenskyj had rejected a first draft contract from Washington. According to reports, the United States demanded 50 percent of the income from these raw materials and wanted to have the military aid previously paid afterwards.

According to Kiev, security guarantees against continued Russian aggression were not provided for in the document. “We have to and can achieve a strong and permanent peace, so that Russia can never return with war,” said Selenskyj.

In the meantime, the Trump administration has sent a new draft contract to Kiev, the news portal “Axios” reported in the USA. In it, some points were changed that were unacceptable for Ukraine, it was said in the reference to the negotiating process.

Selenskyj should return to the negotiating table, said Trump’s security advisor Mike Waltz. “These are negotiations. And you negotiate in negotiations.” There could be no better guarantee for Ukraine than US investments in its long-term prosperity.

Waltz has attributed Trump’s insults to trouble about Selenskyj’s hesitation in the past few days. “The president has obviously made his frustration very public because we gave the Ukrainians an incredible and historical chance that the United States will invest in Ukraine,” Walz told the Trump-near US broadcaster Fox News. The US President had called Selenskyj a dictator who does not allow elections. He had also said that Ukraine was to blame for the persistence of the war.

Kellogg, as a Messenger Trumps, probes the situation in the Eastern European country with the political and military leadership of several days. Ukraine has been defending itself against the Russian invasion for almost three years. So far, the United States has been the most important supporter in the country, but Trump turns drastically from this course. He wants to end the war – however, it is increasingly feared that he could make decisions about the head of Ukraine with Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin.

In his evening video message, Selenskyj opened the following bill on the Ukrainian drone attacks on Russian military and industrial plants: “We already receive almost ten dollars of Russian losses for every two dollars that we invest in our long-distance capacity”.

On Thursday evening, the Ukrainian armed forces continued the drone attacks deep in the Russian area. According to the authorities, a substation in the southern Russian area of ​​Krasnodar was damaged twice by falling drone debris. However, Ukraine also suffered from a Russian attack on Friday night on Friday.

France’s President Emmanuel Macron will travel to Washington on Monday to advise Trump about the peace efforts for Ukraine. This was announced by the Élysée Palace in Paris. He wants to convince Trump that “it is in his interest to work with the Europeans at the moment,” said Macron. Trump should not have Ukraine conquered by Russia, because otherwise the European and American war equipment Moscow will also fall in hand.

In view of Trump’s alone in a possible peace solution for Ukraine, Macron had called for European heads of state and government for crisis advice to Paris on Monday. The meeting dealt, among other things, about the question of European troops to secure a possible ceasefire. The British Prime Minister Keir Strandmer also wants to travel to Washington and meet Trump for Washington next week. According to media reports, the stranger could be about presenting the concept for a peace force.