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[Euronews](https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/02/23/parliament-speaker-ukraine-to-start-work-on-finalising-us-minerals-deal-on-monday)

> **Washington’s demands for around $500 billion (€477 billion) in mineral wealth from Ukraine was initially rejected by Volodymyr Zelenskyy on the grounds that `the US hadn't offered any security guarantees.`**

**Ukraine didn’t get any security guarantees? They are certainly getting them from the vassal states in Europe.**

**What’s the UK up to?**

 [**Starmer reassures Zelensky Britain has ‘ironclad support for Ukraine’, ahead of Trump meeting**](https://www.forcesnews.com/ukraine/starmer-reassures-zelensky-britain-has-ironclad-support-ukraine-ahead-trump-meeting)

> **I*n a call with the Ukrainian president on Saturday morning, the Prime Minister said he would be “progressing important discussions” about Kyiv’s security on his visit to Washington, Downing Street said.***

 **And Poland?**

[**Poland is paying for Ukraine’s Starlink subscription, its deputy PM says**](https://kelo.com/2025/02/22/poland-is-paying-for-ukraines-starlink-subscription-its-deputy-pm-says/)

> ***We pay and will continue to pay a subscription fee for satellite internet for Ukraine,” Poland’s Deputy Prime Minister Krzysztof Gawkowski said in a post on Musk-owned social media platform X.***

> ***“I cannot imagine that someone could decide to terminate a business contract for a commercial service to which Poland is a party,” added Gawkowski, who is also Poland’s digital affairs minister.***

**Let’s get back to the deal Ukraine is readying for mineral resources with the US**

> The speaker of the Ukrainian parliament has said **the government will start working in earnest from Monday to reach an agreement with the Trump administration for US access to mineral resources.**
> 
> Speaking to Japanese broadcaster NHK World**, Ruslan Stefanchuk said a special team would start working on the proposal beginning next week but that any agreement must include security assurances from Washington.**
> 
> **American access to Ukraine’s rare earth minerals was first presented to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent earlier in February.**
> 
> **Washington is asking for a 50% cut of all revenues generated from Ukraine’s mineral and natural resources in what US officials are calling payment for previous military support.**
> 
> On Friday, President **Donald Trump said that Washington and Kyiv were close to reaching a deal.**
> 
> ***“I think we’re pretty close, yeah. I think they want it. They feel good about it. And it’s a significant, it’s a big deal, but they want it and it keeps us in that country and they’re very happy about it,” he said.***

Trump said, and I’m posting his wording again

> ***I think we’re pretty close, yeah. I think they want it. They feel good about it. And it’s a significant, it’s a big deal, but they want it `and it keeps us in that country and they're very happy about it,`” he said.***

**So making the mineral deal is the way to keep the US in Ukraine. All the rhetoric about peace with Russia is just smoke and mirrors-**