By Reuters
Ukraine said on Wednesday it had reached a “preliminary” deal to hand revenue from some of its mineral resources to the United States, before an expected trip to Washington by President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Friday.
The deal is central to Ukrainian attempts to ensure strong support from U.S. President Donald Trump as he seeks a quick end to Russia’s war in Ukraine, with U.S.-Russian talks that have so far excluded Kyiv set to continue on Thursday.
“The main thing for me is we are not debtors. There is no $500 billion debt in the agreement, nor $350, nor $100 billion because that would be unfair,” Zelenskiy told a news briefing of the agreement.
Trump has cast the deal as a repayment for billions of dollars in aid to Kyiv during the war. Zelenskiy has been asking for security guarantees in exchange for the mineral rights, but it is
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