Ukraine is ready to sign an agreement on natural resources with the United States, A person familiar with the matter said, to a extent that he could reinforce Washington’s support for kyiv by strengthening his economic association.
The draft agreement, which provides for the creation of a joint fund to manage Ukraine investment projectsit has been completed and could be signed on Wednesday, according to the source, which spoke on condition of anonymity because the conversations are private. Ukrainian Minister of Economy, Yulia Svydenko, addresses Washington for the firm, they reported.
As part of the agreement, the United States and Ukraine will seek to create the conditions for “Increase investment in mining, energy and technology related in Ukraine”, according to the draft document to which Bloomberg News had access. Washington also recognizes kyiv’s intention that the agreement avoids any conflict with its plans to join the European Union, considered for a long time as a red line for Ukraine in negotiations.
In another advance, the United States agreed that only the future military assistance that provides Ukraine after the signing of the agreement will be counted for its contribution to the fund, according to the document. The Ukrainian prime minister, Denys Shmyhal, declared on Sunday that Washington had abandoned his insistence on including in the agreement the tens of billions of dollars in aid delivered since the beginning of the Russian invasion.
The firm could happen at a time when President Donald Trump is increasingly frustrated by delays in achieving a high fire in the war, That has been four years. Trump has questioned the disposition of Russian President Vladimir Putin, to move towards a peace plan that Trump intended to implement in the first 100 days of his new administration. Trump is confident that an agreement on critical minerals with Ukraine will be signed, according to the White House on Tuesday.
The agreement “Strengthens the strategic association between the parties for the reconstruction and long -term modernization of Ukraine, In response to large -scale destruction caused by Russia’s large -scale invasion, ”according to the document.
Two other technical agreements that will determine how the Conjunct will workOr they are yet to be completed, said the source.
The spokesman for the United States Department of the Treasury He did not respond immediately to a request for comments.
American and Ukrainian officials signed a memorandum of intentions in early April and continued to negotiate the technical details of the agreement, which would grant the United States the first right on profits transferred to a special investment fund for reconstruction that would be controlled by Washington.
A previous attempt to close the agreement failed earlier this year after a confrontation between Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, and Trump and Vice President JD Vance in the Oval Office. Zelenskiy met personally with the US president in the Vatican on Saturday, before Pope Francis’s funeral.
Russia intensified its attacks on the line of the Ukraine Front and in several cities during the night, while Kremlin adopts a maximalist position in the peace negotiations negotiated with the United States. While Trump’s envoy, Steve Witkoff, tried The Russian leader insisted that Moscow must take total control of four Ukraine regions that claims, but does not occupy in its entirety, Bloomberg News reported.
White House Press Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, He reiterated on Tuesday that Trump was frustrating for the difficulty of ensuring that both Ukraine and Russia accept a peace agreement, but that “remains optimistic that we can achieve it.”
