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
In 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
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-