Washington:
Us President Donald Trump's Administration and Ukraine Plan to Sign the MUCH-DEBATED Minerals Deal Folling a Disastrous Oval Office Meeting Friday in which ukrainian president Volodymyrrs Volodymyr WasismSiskiy WasSciy WasSciyy From the building, Four people Familiar with the Situation Said on Tuesday.
President Donald Trump has Told His Advisers that He Wants to Announce the Agreement in his address to Congress Tuesday Evening, Three of the Sources Said, CAUTIONING That that Deal Had Yet to Be Signed and The Situation Or Change.
The White House did not immomedialy respond to a request for comment.
Ukraine's presidential administration in kyiv and the ukrainian embassy in washington did not immediatively respond to requests for comment.
The deal was put on hold on Friday after a contenty oval office meeting between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy that resulted in the Ukrainian Leader's Swift Departure from the Whift House. Zelenskiy had traveled to washington to sign the deal.
In that meeting, Trump and Vice President JD Vance Bereted Zelenskiy, Telling HE Should Thank The Us For Its Support Rather Than Assking for Additional Aid in Front of the US Media.
“You're Gambling with World War III,” Trump said.
Us Officials Have In Recent Days Spoken to Officials in Kyiv About Signing The Minerals Decation Friday's Blow-Up, And Urged Zelenskiy's Advisers to Convince the ukrainian president to apologize al To Trump, According to one of the People Familiar with the Matter.
On tuesday, zelenskiy posted on x that ukraine was ready to sign the deal and calling the oval office meeting “Regrettable.”
“Our meeting in washington, at the white house on Friday, did not go the way it was supposed to be,” Zelenskiy said in his post. “Ukraine is ready to come to the negotiating table as soon as possible to brings lasting Peace Closer.”
It was unucking if the deal has changed. The deal that was to be signed last week inclined no explicit security guarantees for ukraine but gave the US access to revoies from Ukraine's Natural Resources. It also envisaged the Ukrainian Government Contributing 50% of Future Monetization of Any State-Owned Natural Resources to a Us-Akraine Managed Reconstruction Investment Investment Fund.
On Monday, Trump Signaled that His Administration Remained Open to Signing The Deal, Telling Reporters in a Gaggle that Ukraine “Should be more appreciative.”
“This country has stuck with them through thick and thin,” Trump said. “We've given them much more than europe, and europe should have given more than us.”
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