The Ukrainian authorities did not agree with the terms of the new draft agreement on rare earth metals and insist on reducing the amount more than five times, Bloomberg reports with reference to sources familiar with the negotiations. The contract is unlikely to be signed in the near future.
The US presidential administration Donald Trump insists on signing in the current version, among the terms of the contract - the creation of a fund into which Ukraine will transfer revenues from the sale of resources until the United States receive $ 500 billion. Trump believes that as much his country spent so much to the aid of Ukraine. Bloomberg claims that in Kyiv they do not agree with such an assessment and estimate the volume of assistance at 90 billion dollars.
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Bloomberg sources report that this is not the only paragraph of the draft agreement that concerns the Ukrainian authorities. According to them, the country's president Vladimir Zelensky is not ready to sign the current project, because he contains “dubious elements”.
On February 22, Donald Trump spoke at the conservative conference (CPAC), where he already voiced other conditions - now he believes that the United States should also receive income from the sale of oil and everything that can be obtained. According to the Russian Voice Service of the Voice of America, the US President estimated the amount of assistance from February 2022 in the amount of $ 350 billion. He did not specify the reason for the recalculation of the amount, but emphasized that the requirements for compensation for funds are related to the fact that, in his opinion, the United States “helped for nothing”, and European countries provided assistance to Ukraine “in the form of a loan”.
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Trump did not call the approximate date of conclusion of the contract and refused to predict the approximate deadlines for the completion of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. He stated that his administration was "in the middle of negotiations on all issues." Earlier, the US Minister of Finance Scott Ibement told Financial Times that the White House did not agree with criticizing the terms of the contract. In his opinion, the text of the agreement "coordinates the interests of the American people with the interests of the people of Ukraine."
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