USA and Ukraine conclude raw materials agreements
After the long struggle, the United States and Ukraine agreed to create a reconstruction, which is also intended to provide the United States for access to soil treasures in the country that attacked Russia. Both parties confirmed the agreement on Wednesday evening (local time) in Washington, but appreciated only a few details. The agreement was concluded at the decisive stage of negotiations on a peace agreement: US President Donald Trump seeks to quickly end the war in Ukraine and recently did not need progress.
In the past, the Republican massively put Ukraine under pressure on the resource question. He considered the potential profit from the reduction of raw materials as compensation for the financial and military support of the United States. According to the agreement, which has now agreed, Trump emphasized that the United States will return much more than they have invested so far. He confirmed that his point of view that the economic presence of the United States in Ukraine is also a guarantee of security for the country.
US Minister of Finance Scott Immotent and Ukrainian leader of the Vice -Government Government Julia Svirdenko signed a contract in the US capital. The text of the agreement was originally not published. Nevertheless, the investment fund of joint operation of Ukrainian mineral resources is planned, which is designed to receive funds for the reconstruction of the country directed by the state. The United States provides privileged access to Ukrainian resources, including metals from rare -earth, which are important and strategically significant for high technologies.
The defective signal of Russia speaks
The Minister of Finance Trump was not particularly concrete with the aim of maintaining an agreement, but was satisfied. The agreement is a clear signal for the Russian leadership, according to which the Trump government conducts campaigns for a peaceful process in the long term, in the center of which is “free, sovereign and prosperous Ukraine”.
The Ukrainian vice -government of the head of Swrydenko has given more detailed information. The Fund of Future Reconstruction should be invested in projects to promote minerals, oil and gas and infrastructure related to it. “Ukraine and the United States will jointly determine the financing of investment projects,” she wrote on Facebook. Only in Ukraine can be invested. In the first ten years, the fund should not distribute profits and income, but should be reinvest.
To cope with problems in Ukraine about a possible sale, Swrydenko emphasized that the fund worked equally with the United States. Ukraine will not bring its share in the fund from existing raw materials projects, but will pay 50 percent of income from future licenses for financing or selling raw materials. Swrydenkos provides its post on Facebook with a harmoniously looking group photograph, which she and improvements are shown in addition to satisfied smiling supporters.
Swrydenko: Ukraine should not pay military funds
In the negotiations, it was contradictory about whether Ukraine had to repay the military and financial resources of the United States through the operation of raw materials. According to Swrydekos, this is not so.
The United States can also contribute to the fund with military assistance, for example, with anti -air weapons, she explained. Ukraine should not carry any debts from the previous weapons or financial assistance from the United States since the beginning of the Russian war in the attack in February 2022. In any of the partner countries, taxes should be applied to the income of the fund.
Negotiations under the agreement were held since February. Nevertheless, after an unprecedented scandal between Trump, whose vice jing jj wanse and Ukrainian president Vilodomyr Seleensky in the White House in the White House. In the end, both countries were able to agree on a new attempt. In mid -April, Kyiv and Washington signed an application for intention to complete the raw materials agreement.
Government: deposits of raw materials remain the property of Ukraine
The actual agreement should be ratified by the Ukrainian parliament before entering into force. Prime Minister Denis Schmikhal assured before signing the deal: “Ukraine controls its resources. This means that sovereignty, infrastructure, raw materials are not integral or prerequisite for the fund or agreement. ”
Sevensky proposed an agreement last fall to appeal to Trump’s self -control as a businessman and maintain security guarantees in the United States. After all, which is known, the hope for such guarantees was not completed.
Last weekend, Sevensky gathered in Rome on the verge of a funeral service after the death of Pope Francis to talk with Trump. Photos of how two statesmen sitting on two chairs went around the world. When he was asked what he was saying Seven, Trump now answered on American television that he advised Ukrainian to sign an agreement, “because Russia is much larger and much stronger.” ((DPA))))))
Odessa under a strong fire of drones
Meanwhile, Russia continues its aggression with uninfected firmness. According to local authorities, at night two people were killed as a result of a large attack of a drone on the Ukrainian port city of Odessa. According to the regional governor Olekh Kiper, several houses, a supermarket, school and cars were damaged, and several fires began. The city of Charki and the city of Sumi near the Russian border were also attacked. Information cannot be verified independently.
There were several explosions in the northern Ukrainian city of Sumi. In the regions Sumy, Kiev, Kharkiw, Tschernihiw, Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk and Saporischeeschja, air anxiety was launched (DPA/AFP))))))
