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War
Thousand one hundred and sixty -third days. The Trump administration first approved the sale of weapons to Kyiv. USA and Ukraine signed an agreement on minerals
Medusa from February 24, 2022 lives on the Russian-Ukrainian war on the air. In our daily materials, we publish your letters, because we are sure: we must continue to talk about the war. What feelings do you experience because of the ongoing war? How does it affect you personally right now? How has your attitude to what is happening, towards Russia, Ukraine, to the world changed over these three years of the war? Look for a feedback form at the end of this article. The review of the previous day can be read here .
Ukraine
Kyiv and Washington signed an agreement on subsoil. It involves new military assistance to the Armed Forces
U.S. Finance Minister Scott Immord and Minister of Economics of Ukraine Yulia Sviridenko signed an agreement on minerals on April 30. The contract will provide the United States with privileged access to new projects for the development of 57 types of natural resources in Ukraine, including rare -earth metals, oil and natural gas.
The agreement assumes that the parties will create on equal terms a fund, which will invest in the prey of the most important minerals. The United States will be able to replenish the fund by both money and new military assistance provided by Ukraine, for example, air defense systems, Sviridenko said.
Immentine stated that the signed agreement “makes it clear to Russia that the Trump administration is committed to the peace process, in the center of which there is free, sovereign and prosperous Ukraine.”
According to Bloomberg, signing an agreement, Kiev seeks to enlist the support of US President Donald Trump in negotiations with Russia about the ceasefire. “This deal is considered as critical to strengthen Trump's favor to Kyiv, since its administration seeks to put an end to the war, which began after Russia's full -scale invasion of Ukraine,” the agency notes.
The United States and Ukraine signed an agreement two months after the public quarrel of the presidents of the United States and Ukraine in the White House - Donald Trump and Vladimir Zelensky arranged a skirmish on February 28, shortly before signing a bowels of the bowels. As a result, the United States granted Kyiv a tough version of the agreement, but during the negotiations they went to a number of concessions. The parties agreed to sign the agreement after Trump and Zelensky met on April 26 in the Vatican at the funeral of the Pope Francis.
World
Trump administration for the first time during his second presidential term approved the sale of weapons to Ukraine
The US Presidential Administration told Congress that it was going to allow Ukraine to sell defense products. The corresponding notification of the White House appeared on the congress website on April 29. The first on May 1, the Ukrainian edition of Kyiv Post reported this , referring to diplomatic sources.
We are talking about direct supplies from private companies (Direct Commercial Sales) in the amount of $ 50 million. American companies in the framework of DCS sell objects and defense services to foreign governments or organizations on a commercial basis, and not through state channels.
The US Congress in its last packet of assistance to Ukraine approved the sale of weapons through DCS for more than one billion dollars. In 2015–2023, the United States on this line permit weapons and services to Ukraine to more than $ 1.6 billion.
The analyst on defense assistance to Kolbi Badkhvar told Kyiv Post that all DCS processes are conducted “quietly”, they are not announced publicly-unlike interstate sales of weapons. According to him, the new one here is that sales of American weapons are ongoing, "despite all the predictions that Trump will completely cut off Ukraine."
According to Kyiv Post, the Trump administration approved the sale of weapons to Ukraine a few weeks after Vladimir Zelensky said that Ukraine was ready to buy weapons from the USA for up to $ 50 billion. “We handed over to the American side a large package [weapons], which we want to buy,” Zelensky said on April 9. The Ukrainian leader added that he was discussing the purchase of weapons with Donald Trump.
War through the eyes of readers "Medusa"
Natalia (Russia, NWFO ). Feelings are now only under the control of pills from a psychiatrist. On the first day of the beginning of the invasion, I just screamed. She yelled at her mother, called her a fool for not understanding the whole tragedy of what was happening. Several times I tried to collect things in order to go somewhere away from people who joyfully screeching about an imminent victory over ... I wanted to leave for Ukraine because my grandmother lived there. Because there I spent a summer vacation. Because there are the most magical landscapes. Because ... I don't know what. Because part of me is Ukraine too? It’s like in a terrible family, when someone big hits the weaker one, and you yourself are very small and you can only get under the belt so that the weak gets less than the blows.
But the rational defeated the emotional, and I live in the same place as before. But not as before. What was plans for the future directed and organized my present, no longer exists. Plans are broken about a terrible unknown. Any attempt to dream about a possible future ends with tears - the future that I strove for is no longer. And the present is more like the plot of a fantastic film with parallel universes. How did I find myself in this terrible reality without the future? And where is the other reality? How to return to it?
Yes, I began to follow the events in the world more in the hope that there is a will in the world that can stop what is happening. It’s like a victim’s child looks with tearful eyes through the dirty glass of the apartment to the street, expecting to see at least someone who passes by will understand his pain and do something with it, will change something. But everyone has their worries and sorrows.
There is simply no hope of salvation. Therefore, all life is now reduced to primitive vital needs: to eat, sleep, wake up, wash, go to work, maybe even work there. And the pills help not to cry ... For innocently killed people, according to their own murdered lives.