Trump is linked to the future of Ukraine with the metal deal

Minerals deal A signature between the United States and Ukraine can be signed on Wednesday to bring indescribable money to a joint investment fund between 50-50 between the two countries that would help rebuild Ukraine whenever the war with Russia ends.

But Ukraine’s unexploited resources, which are the subject of the deal, will take years to extract and give profits. They may fail to provide the type of wealth that President Trump has long said.

It is not yet clear how you deal with nine pages, Text Among them is the Ukraine government publicly on Thursday, it will work in practice. Several details must be selected, but the deal will create an investment box, run by KYIV and Washington jointly.

Although the Trump administration wanted Kyiv to use its metal wealth to pay American military assistance, the final text removes the idea of ​​processing that aid as a religion. The deal also seems to keep the door specifically open to Ukraine to finally join the European Union, which is a move, not the United States, and no Russia bidder.

There was no mention of a security guarantee-which Ukraine has long sought to prevent Russia from re-assembled after any endowment. But the deal means that the United States can send more military aid to Ukraine if a peace agreement is not reached.

The long -awaited signature of the agreement has certainly made one thing that seems impossible almost two months ago: Mr. Trump has linked the future of Ukraine.

“This agreement clearly indicates that the Trump administration is committed to a peace process focused on free, self -and prosperous Ukraine in the long run.”

Analysts approved on Thursday that The deal Mr. Trump’s interest in Ukraine can now guarantee that he is investing publicly.

“He is a businessman – he always does mathematics,” said Voludmir Vicenco, a pioneering political analyst at Kiev. “The mentality of his work is his approach to politics. Therefore, his motives for the agreement can help maintain our interest in Ukraine. How will this work in practice, he will tell only time.”

Officials said on Thursday that the Parliament of Ukraine is still the agreement, which is likely to occur in the next ten days.

In the end, it seems that Ukraine was able to get some of what you want, but not everything. The noticeable omission was the lack of a security guarantee.

“The agreement has changed significantly,” said Mr. Zelinski on a social media Thursday evening. He added: “Now is a truly equal agreement that creates an opportunity for investments in Ukraine.”

The Investment Fund will be funded by revenues from new projects in critical metals, oil and gas – not from the projects that are already operating.

Anna Scorclione, a member of the Ukrainian parliament from an opposition political party, said it was informed of the deal at a government meeting on Thursday. Mrs. Skurukhoud said that she had told the Americans to put money in the fund – and the equivalent amount of the dollar, which would cost him any future military assistance to Ukraine.

Ukrainians will develop funds in the fund from mining licenses issued to investors and collecting the metal resources that were developed under the deal. Half of these money will go to the Ukrainian budget. The half will go to the joint investment fund.

Mrs. Scorclook said she was hesitant to support the deal because she lacks details. “It looks good, but we don’t know whether this is true or is it a fairy story for us to vote,” she said.

Mrs. Scorukud said that the fund will be created by both the two governments and managed by a limited liability company that was formed in Dilayer and managed by three Ukrainians and three Americans. The profits will go to rebuild Ukraine after the war during the first ten years; After that, it is not clear what will happen with profits.

The final conditions will be detailed in future agreements.

The signature of the deal on the 100th day of Mr. Trump in his position was the last development in his constantly changing approach to the war, which Russia began to completely invade Ukraine in February 2022.

Mr. Trump blames Cuvy to incite the war and it seems that he finds more than one kinship with President Vladimir F. Putin is more than anyone than anyone in Ukraine. He has repeatedly wondered why the United States became the largest ally of Kiev under the leadership of President Joseph R. Biden Junior and did not hide from his irritation with President Voludimir Zelinski from Ukraine and Kiev’s requests for more military assistance.

The relationship between Ukraine and the United States came on February 28, when Mr. Zelinski and Mr. Trump were initially signed on the Maaden Minerals Parting deal in the Oval Office. The meeting was disaster. Mr. Trump and Vice President JD Vance photographed Mr. Zelensky, who was suddenly asked to leave the White House. In the repercussions, the Trump administration Suspension Military aid and intelligence participation with Ukraine.

But Mr. Trump has repeatedly said he wanted to end the war, Even campaigns On the promise he will do in 24 hours. He said since then he was not literal.

Since the Trump administration has pressed both Russia and Ukraine to agree to a peace agreement-or at least, Ukraine tried to look like a reasonable party. Mr. Zellinski, who worked to calm ties with the Trump administration after the Casablanca office, immediately agreed to the idea of ​​an unconditional armistice for 30 days; Mr. Putin did not.

However, for Ukraine, the metal deal provided an opportunity for some influence, even as critics described it as blackmail.

The Ukrainian government initially High Metal property in the country to the Trump administration, hoping that some investments respond and help strengthen the relationship between the two countries.

Ukrainian officials say the country holds deposits for more than 20 critical minerals; One consultant company They estimate them by several trillion dollars. But mineral extraction may not be easy to extract, just as the Soviet maps determine critical deposits sites have never been updated and are not necessarily examined.

Kyiv wanted a desperate to include a kind of security guarantee from the United States. Without one, officials were afraid, Russia could violate any ceasefire-which Moscow did before.

Mr. Trump said, though, that the presence of a joint investment fund with the United States will be a security guarantee itself – that if American companies and the American government are invested in the future of Ukraine, this alone will deter Russia.

In many ways, despite all of this, the deal that occurred on Wednesday with a little bang was similar to the one that collapsed in February.

The reaction to the deal was mixed in Ukraine on Thursday.

Vera Todan, 36, who lives in the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporesvia, which is frequently exposed to a Russian attack, said the deal can give up money from Ukrainian resources for American investors.

She said: “These are traps that tighten us and drag our country into a deeper and deeper hole.” “We live here and now, but those who have descended those who have to deal with the consequences. This, this, undoubtedly leave a great sign for them.”

But Svitlana Mahmoudova-Bardadyn, 46, who lives in the Sumi area near the border with Russia, said it hopes that the deal will receive that Ukraine will receive more American support-such as weapons. She also said that she hoped that this widespread war will finally end, and that things will improve for us. “

Everyone remained on Thursday, with the text of the mysterious agreement and Ukrainian officials who keep my mother on any promises that may have been presented.

Instead, the language of the deal pointed out “an expression of a broader and long -term strategy alignment” between the two countries, “a concrete demonstration to support the United States of America” ​​for Ukraine’s security. He explained who will not stand.

The agreement says that the United States and Ukraine want to ensure that the countries “that have been negatively acted to Ukraine in the conflict do not benefit from the rebuilding of Ukraine” once peace is reached – in other words, Russia.

Oleksandra mykolyyshyn The reports contributed.