{"id":244147,"date":"2025-02-21T23:42:09","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T23:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/21\/ukraine-promises-swift-deal-for-minerals-as-trump-cuts-kyiv-out-of-peace-talks\/"},"modified":"2025-02-21T23:42:09","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T23:42:09","slug":"ukraine-promises-swift-deal-for-minerals-as-trump-cuts-kyiv-out-of-peace-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/21\/ukraine-promises-swift-deal-for-minerals-as-trump-cuts-kyiv-out-of-peace-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine Promises Swift Deal for Minerals as Trump Cuts Kyiv Out of Peace Talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/02\/21\/multimedia\/21ukraine-trump-01-mvck\/21ukraine-trump-01-mvck-facebookJumbo.jpg?ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Ukraine Promises Swift Deal for Minerals as Trump Cuts Kyiv Out of Peace Talks\" title=\"Ukraine Promises Swift Deal for Minerals as Trump Cuts Kyiv Out of Peace Talks\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Thursday that Ukraine will work \u201cswiftly and very sensibly\u201d on an agreement granting the United States access to its natural resources, in an apparent overture to tamp down tensions that had flared with President Trump over the deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Kyiv has focused on strengthening its negotiating position as the United States and Russia open talks on ending the war \u2014 with or without Ukraine\u2019s involvement. In a flurry of diplomacy on Thursday and Friday, Mr. Zelensky spoke with half a dozen leaders in Europe and Canada to shore up other sources of support.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">As he did so, however, Mr. Trump <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2025\/02\/21\/us\/trump-news\/d5e23629-354a-5dea-a502-04b286465bac?smid=url-share\" title=\"\">said in a radio interview on Friday<\/a> that the Ukrainian president did not need to participate in talks intended to end the conflict on his soil.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI don\u2019t think he\u2019s very important to be at meetings to be honest with you, he\u2019s been there for three years,\u201d Mr. Trump told Brian Kilmeade, the Fox News host, adding that he had been watching Mr. Zelensky \u201cnegotiate with no cards.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cAnd you get sick of it,\u201d Trump said. \u201cYou just get sick of it. And I\u2019ve had it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Kyiv and Moscow engaged in direct talks early in the invasion but since April of 2022 have negotiated only over prisoner of war exchanges and to return Ukrainian children from Russia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The idea of trading natural resources for U.S. assistance was first put forward by Ukraine, but Mr. Zelensky balked when the U.S. proposal suggested that Kyiv provide access to profits from <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/15\/world\/europe\/ukraine-minerals-us-deal-rejected.html\" title=\"\">50 percent of the country\u2019s minerals and energy resources<\/a>. Mr. Zelensky had also objected that the deal included no American security commitments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Several aides to Mr. Zelensky believe that a new version of the agreement under discussion on Thursday addresses those concerns, and have now advised Mr. Zelensky to sign it, a person familiar with discussions in the Ukrainian government about the U.S. proposal said on Friday. The shift in some Ukrainian officials\u2019 stance on the deal was first reported by <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/02\/20\/us-ukraine-rare-earth-minerals-agreement\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Axios<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In another positive sign for the talks with the United States on resources, Keith Kellogg, the retired lieutenant general who is Mr. Trump\u2019s envoy to Ukraine for settlement negotiations, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/generalkellogg\/status\/1892928578641162487\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">posted on X<\/a> praise for Mr. Zelensky as \u201cthe embattled and courageous leader of a nation at war and his talented national security team.\u201d Mr. Kellogg said he had \u201cextensive and positive discussions\u201d on his visit to Kyiv.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In a statement Friday evening, Mr. Zelensky said his negotiating team was working with U.S. counterparts on \u201can agreement that can strengthen our relations,\u201d but that the need remained \u201cto work out the details to ensure its effectiveness.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He added: \u201cI look forward to the outcome \u2014 a just result..\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Talks had derailed last week after Mr. Zelensky declined to immediately sign a version presented to him by the U.S. treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, on a visit to Kyiv.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Trump responded with a broadside against Mr. Zelensky\u2019s moral standing in the conflict, falsely saying Ukrainian leaders started the all-out war that began in 2022 with Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine. Mr. Zelensky, in turn, said Mr. Trump lived in a \u201cweb of disinformation.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But the U.S. pressure on Kyiv continued. On Thursday, the U.S. national security adviser, Mike Waltz, said in an interview on Fox &amp; Friends that Ukrainian leadership needed \u201cto tone it down and take a hard look and sign that deal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Zelensky suggested that talks were progressing in a nightly address to Ukrainians on Thursday, after a meeting in Kyiv with the Trump administration\u2019s envoy to Ukraine and Russia, Mr. Kellogg, saying it was \u201ca meeting that restores hope.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He offered no details on a potential natural resources deal, other than to say that \u201ceconomy and security must always go hand in hand,\u201d and that his interest was in securing an enduring agreement with the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Ukrainian government has simultaneously pursued a flurry of diplomacy with Europe, in hopes that Europe might provide security commitments or military aid to fill gaps if the United States withholds support.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Zelensky and other Ukrainian officials concede that European nations cannot fully replace the full range of military and intelligence assistance the United States provides to Ukraine, but they have been encouraged by discussions of forming a European peacekeeping force to enforce a cease-fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Thursday, Mr. Zelensky spoke by phone with five European leaders, from France, the United Kingdom, Norway, Denmark and Finland, and with the prime minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, and on Friday with the president of Poland, Andrzej Duda.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In the nine days since Mr. Trump opened negotiations with Russia in a phone call with President Vladimir V. Putin on Feb. 12, Mr. Zelensky has met or spoken on the phone with European leaders at least nine times. A visit was scheduled for Monday by Spain\u2019s prime minister, Pedro S\u00e1nchez.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">And Mr. Macron and the U.K. prime minister, Keir Starmer, will continue to press Ukraine\u2019s case in planned visits to Washington next week, where they are expected to present to the Trump administration what Europe and the United Kingdom can provide Ukraine and to lay out what is still needed from the United States.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/21\/world\/europe\/ukraine-zelensky-minerals-peace.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Thursday that Ukraine will work \u201cswiftly and very sensibly\u201d on an agreement granting the United States access to its natural resources, in an apparent overture to tamp down tensions that had flared with President Trump over the deal. 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