Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has rejected the US proposal to transfer about 50% of the rights to Ukrainian rare earth minerals to the US, as the deal did not have clear security guarantees from the US, the Financial Times reported.
According to three sources, Zelenskyy insists that any deal on mineral resources should be directly linked to American and European security guarantees.
During his visit to the Presidential Office in Kyiv, the US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent brought a document that Donald Trump wanted Volodymyr Zelenskyy to sign before Bessent returned to Washington.
Before discussing the agreement privately with Zelenskyy for about an hour, Bessent told reporters that it was an “economic agreement” with Kyiv that would “further integrate our economies.”
