Donald Trump will meet with Volodymyr Zelenski

news.5v.pl 4 months ago

– I will most likely meet president Zelenski next week," Donald Trump said to journalists on Friday.

However, the president of the United States could not explain where the gathering of politicians would take place. Could be Washington. I'm not going to Kiev," he said.

If that happens, it will be the first gathering of Ukrainian and US leaders since Trump's return to the seat of president of the United States.

Access to uncommon earth metals for the aid of Ukraine

Trump reported that 1 of the topics of the conversation would be the uncommon earth metallic reserves in Ukraine. At the beginning of the week, the American president suggested that in exchange for further military assistance, Ukraine should return the U.S. access to these valuable elements.

“We say Ukraine has very valuable uncommon earth metals. We want them to pawn it as a guarantee. We want a guarantee, due to the fact that we give them money in handfuls," Trump said a fewer days ago.

– So we effort to make a deal with Ukraine, where they will safe what we give them, utilizing their uncommon earth metals and another things," he added.

The American president did not give details of how specified an agreement should look, but stressed that Kiev was interested.

Zelenski responds to Trump ultimatum

The information was later confirmed by the president of Ukraine, who announced that his country was willing to share its resources with an American ally.

– 1 of the key economical points in the triumph Plan is investment in Ukrainian mineral resources (...) Russia has occupied our lands since 2014, and any of them contained crucial resources of our natural materials. We are open to their usage in cooperation with partners who aid us defend our land and defy the enemy with their weapons, presence and sanctions packages," said Zelenski during a gathering with the Director-General of the global Atomic Energy Agency Rafael Grossi.

Zelenski admitted that he discussed this issue in September with the then US presidential candidate and incumbent White home host Donald Trump. “I told him we were open to investing in American companies,” said Zelenski. He added that if mineral resources were controlled by Russia, there was a hazard that another countries specified as Iran and North Korea would be curious in them.

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