Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy comes to the White House on Friday, the agreement would provide access to the US Country mineral resources – President Donald Trump has given an agreement with American taxpayers who pay for the help of Russia in Ukraine.
“We will dig. We will dig, dig, we will drill.” Trump said on Thursday, saying that the US would do “a large amount of work” in Ukraine, “very badly taking the land we need in our town.”
“It will be very good for Ukrainian,” he continued. “It’s a tremendous economic development project. So it will be good for both countries.”
President Donald Trump speaks at the press conference Minister British Price Keir Starmer (not depicted) in Washington, DC, February 27, 2025, February.
Brian Snyder / Reuters
Zelenskyy, on the other hand, talks about the agreement in different terms – describing it as a means of the end: protects us.
If no guarantee of the military security he wants, Trump Administration officials said that an economic investment in U.S. can have a kind of obstacle for more Russian invasions on Earth in Ukraine.
The President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy talks at Kyiv, Ukraine, at the Ukraine press conference in the 26th 2025.
Tetiana Dzhafava / AFP via Getty Images
“I’ll meet Trump President” Ukrainian leader said on Wednesday. “For me and for all of the world, it is essential that America’s support is not stopped. Strength is essential for peace”.
Abc News talked to officials and analysts to deal with it, and what the agreement meant to end up with the future of Ukraine and ending the end of war after three tough years.
President of the Republican Presidency and Former President of Donald Trump and Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy gathered in Trump Tower in New York City, 27 September 2024.
Shannon Stapleton / Reuters, File
What – and not – in agreement
Officials who know negotiations say that the US and Ukrainians will work together different deposits of valuable minerals and other natural Ukrainian resources.
Unlike the original proposal, KYIV does not make these resources call for sales to pay $ 500 million. Before the Trump Administration had “repayment” in response to Russian invasion, according to the main Spanish-speaking US inspector.
Instead, the aim is to create an investment fund for post-war reconstruction, both countries and additional negotiations on this fund will occur after cementing the initial agreement.
Other factors will depend on the free market.
“The profitability of the fund depends on new investments in Ukrainian resources,” Gracelin Baskaran said, directors of the Mineral Critical Security Safety Program, in the same program in Strategic Research and Meredith Schwartz.
“So the private industry response is key to the success of the fund and determines how much it is worth United States Ultimately, they are derivatives, “they added.
But officials say Ukrainians also made concessions. Officials, initially, Kyiv wanted the conditions for ensuring Ukrainian concrete security.
“However, the idea is that the United States will continue to be involved in Ukrainian safety, stability and sustainable peace, and therefore be able to defend and defend Ukrainian security,” said Baskaran and Schwartz.
If successful, Baskaran and Schwartz say that the US can increase mineral safety, but the results could be made to fruit.
“Mining is a long-term effort, so the United States may not benefit from another 20 years,” they said.
Trump himself admits uncertainty.
“You know, dig and perhaps things aren’t there that you will think about it,” said Thursday.
The President of Donald Trump (R) has a bilateral meeting with the British Prime Minister Keir Starmer in Washington, DC Washington White office, 27 February 2025.
Jim Watson / AFP via Getty Images
Trump’s different melody
After recently built in the last few days, Trump smoothed the tone on Thursday.
He asked whether he believed Zelenskyy was a dictator. Trump replied, “Did I say that? I can’t believe that, before holding the next question.”
On the day later, Trump also offered praises on the battlefield for the valley of Zelenskyy and Ukrainian fighters.
“We’ve given lots of equipment and lots of money, but they’ve fought very braver. No matter how to figure it, they really fought,” he said. “Someone should use that equipment. And they were very brave in that sense.”
Ukrainian officials requested by Zelenskyy’s covenant may have a positive opportunity for their main argument – that the signing of Trump’s agreement will encourage the links between Trump Administration and Kyiv, as negotiations would increase the view of the President of Zelenskyy.
But whether Bonhomie will last or not.
“Critical access to mineral resources Trump is the last scope to guide transactional methods of his diplomacy,” Baskaran and Schwartz argues. “But the viability of the agreement continues to rise between two leaders in the world.”
Trump is not known for his patience, and some US officials predict slow results of the agreement that could be frustrated by Trump.
Or, two housing moved towards Zelenskyy. The president again could do it earlier that Trump highlights the potential benefits.
But the President shared only positive predictions on the eve of the meeting.
“I think we will have a very good meeting,” he said. “We’ll go very well. Okay. We have a lot of respect. I have a lot of respect for him.”
John E. Herbst, the General Manager of the Atlantic Council Eurasian Center and the former Ukraine Ambassador argues that the meeting between Zelenskyy and Trump is a good sign of Ukraine.
“Zelenskyy’s visit stands for two weeks when Trump saw Putin three times in the near future, or also last week, when Russian and US officials found in Riyadh,” he said. “It’s still celestskyy, not Putin, Oval”.
Other negotiations
From the public perspective, in recent weeks has changed to negotiations on the mineral agreement, after all, the lectures ultimately ended the end of Ukraine in a separate track.
Thursday, American and Russian officials have more than 6 hours to discuss more and more employees of Moscow and Washington. He said before the Secretary of Marco Rubio State were essential to increase cooperation between countries, as well as resolving the war in Ukraine.
Sided officials had a good meeting result from the meeting, and the greater diplomatic footprint can create a moment for peace talks and create potential peaks between Vladimir Putin leader and the Russian leader.
As the chorus of European leaders, Ukraine has tried to promote an exchange with Russia, promoting American Security guarantees, president Putin continued to say that it keeps the end of a deal.
“I’ve known a long time,” Trump said. “I don’t think he will violate his word. I don’t think he will come back. When we make a deal, I think it will hold the agreement.
But before meeting the UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, it was potentially important.
“You know, look, trust and check, let’s call,” he said.
Clifford D. May, May, Democracy Foundation and President of the Defense Foundation, is essential that it is clearly in the agreement with Putin.
“As the President Trump stops the war against Ukraine, it is not sensible to show respect for Mr. Putin to agree to Mr. Putin,” he said.
“But it is essential that Trump Putron had no excitement about Mr. Putin. Its character, intentions, ideology and his hatred about America hatred,” he can add.
