US under pressure on Zelenskyy to agree to share opportunities for Ukrainian minerals
Kiev faces ongoing pressure from senior U.S. officials, agrees with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy based on the terminology proposed in Washington It is believed that this is not in the interest of its country.
U.S. President Donald Trump hopes Kyiv provides what he calls “equality” to support Washington as Ukraine is fighting a full-scale Russian invasion. He hopes to visit the rare earth worth about $500 billion in Ukrainian rare earths.
Trump sent U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to Kyiv last week in an attempt to reach a deal, but Zelenskyy rejected the proposed clause on the grounds that they were pursuing Ukraine Too unfavorable and does not include specific safety guarantees.
But U.S. officials did not back down. On Thursday, White House national security adviser Mike Waltz called on Zelenskyy to “return to the table” on negotiations related to mineral issues, while Best Bessent disagrees with the U.S. for the first time Ukrainian leader rejected the Ukrainian leader.
“It's incredibly unfortunate than having a lot of comments in the media,” Walz said of the Ukrainians' decision to reject the U.S. proposal.
In Kinv, Zelenskyy held a period of time with Trump's special envoy, Keith Kellogg, the Ukrainian and Russian envoy. However, after sitting down, the planned press conference was cancelled and replaced with a brief photo session, a spokesman for the Ukrainian president said that this was consistent with our will.
The U.S. delegation did not comment.
Zelenskyy wrote in an article on X that he held a “productive meeting” with Kellogg, who “thanks to the United States for all its aid and bipartisan support to the Ukrainian and Ukrainian people.”
Washington's changing position
Ukraine faces nearly three years of total war after Russia began its full-scale invasion of its neighbors on February 24, 2022.
When former U.S. President Joe Biden was still in the White House, the United States had been a supporter of Ukraine's struggle against Russian aggression. But Washington's stance has been changing in the first month of the new Trump presidency.
Trump recently revealed that he spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin and directed U.S. officials to start negotiations with Russia to end the war in Ukraine. Zelenskyy tried to get to the front of the line to meet Trump, who was told about the action after the fact.
Since then, Trump administration officials have met with some Russian counterparts in Saudi Arabia, but Ukraine has been excluded from these negotiations.
U.S. allies after President Donald Trump slammed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, calling him a “no election dictator” and accusing him of bringing money to Russia to start a war An alert was issued.
Trump has been verbally attacking Zelenskyy since then and labeling him as a “no election dictator”, which is clearly an hint at the fact that wartime conditions postpone the Ukrainian election. Zelenskyy, in turn, seems to live in “disinformation” made by Russia.
Trump's comments have been rejected by some of Ukraine's allies, including French President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday that Zelenskyy was a “legal” leader, with Russia's Putin ( Putin) is different.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke with Zelenskyy on Thursday and reiterated that “Canada will always defend Ukraine”, according to the phone’s readers.
Trudeau also stressed that Ukraine must be part of any negotiations aimed at reaching an agreement to end the war.
