President Donald Trump on Monday said Ukraine’s president could visit Washington in the next few weeks to sign a deal granting America significant concessions in terms of his country’s mineral wealth as repayment for the support provided by the U.S. during the war that started with Russia’s invasion exactly three years earlier.
Additionally, Trump told the assembled press in the Oval Office that his understanding was that Russian president Vladimir Putin would not object to European peacekeepers being deployed in Ukraine as part of an agreement to end the three-year-old war that he started without provocation in an attempt to redraw his country’s borders to encompass territory that was lost with the fall of the Soviet Union.
He also said the mineral deal that is being negotiated with Kyiv would be an “economic partnership” between the two countries that would “ensure the American people recoup the Tens of Billions of Dollars and Military Equipment sent to Ukraine, while also helping Ukraine’s economy grow as this Brutal and Savage War comes to an end.”.
Sitting in the Oval Office alongside French president Emmanuel Macron, Trump said representatives from Washington and Kyiv were “very close to a final deal” and told reporters he’d be soon meeting with Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian leader with whom he’s had a contentious relationship dating back to his first term in the White House.
The president added that the agreement would be “a deal with rare earths and various other things” before telling reporters that Zelensky “would like to come” to Washington to sign the agreement before submitting it for ratification by his country’s parliament.
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