Kyiv faces permanent pressure on the part of high US officials to agree to a contract on the division of resources, which was assessed by the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, he is not in his country, according to Washington's terms.
US President Donald Trump wants Kijiv to deliver what was he called “Equalization” for the support provided by Washington, among the ongoing struggle of Ukraine with the Russian full -scale invasion. And wants this payment in the form of access to rare lands of Ukraine Value USD 500 billion.
Trump sent Scott Bessent Scott Bessent Scott Bessent last week try to reach an agreement In this matter, but Zelenskyy rejected the proposed conditions, citing the fact that they were Too bad for Ukraine and did not contain specific safety guarantees.
But American officials do not withdraw from the problem. On Thursday, Mike Waltz, an advisor to the National Security of the White House, called Zelenskyy to “return to the table” in relation to negotiations related to the issue of minerals, while Bessent released the Ukrainian leader for not agreeing to a contract that the USA for the time was The first presented.
“Instead of conducting constructive conversations about what should be continued, we received a lot of rhetoric in the media, which were extremely unfortunate,” Waltz told the Ukrainian decision to reject the US offer.
In Kiev, Zelenskyy spent part of his Thursday meeting with Keith Kellogg, a special envoy of Trump for Ukraine and Russia. However, after sitting, the planned press conference was canceled and replaced by a short photo session, and a spokesman for the Ukrainian president said that this is in line with the wishes of the US.
The US delegation did not comment.
IN Post on XZelenskyy wrote that he had a “productive meeting” with Kellogg and that he was “grateful to the United States for all help and bilateral support for Ukraine and the Ukrainian people.”
A changing attitude in Washington
Ukraine met with almost three years of war after Russia began the full invasion of its neighbor on February 24, 2022.
The US was a strong supporter of the struggle of Ukraine with Russian aggression when former US president Joe Biden was still in the White House. But Washington's position changed in the first month of Trump's new presidency.
Trump recently revealed that he talked to Russian President Vladimir Putin and ordered US officials to start talking to Russia about the end of the war in Ukraine. Zelenskyy who I tried to get to the front of the line To meet Trump, he was informed about this action after the fact.
Officials in Trump's administration have Since the meeting with some Russian counterparts In Saudi Arabia, but Ukraine was excluded from these conversations.
American allies express an alarm after President Donald Trump attacked the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, calling him a “dictator without elections” and accusing him of taking him money to war with Russia.
Since then, Trump attacked Zelenskyy and called him “a dictator without elections” – an apparent allusion to the fact that the war conditions delayed Ukrainian elections. Zelenskyy in turn He said it appeared The US leader lived in the Russian “disinformation space”.
Trump's comments were shot down by some allies of Ukraine, including by French President Emmanuel Macron, who said on Thursday that Zelenskyy was a “legal” leader who came to power through free elections, unlike Russian Putin.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau talked to Zelenskyy on Thursday and repeated that “Canada will always be in defense of Ukraine”, according to this Reading from the conversation.
Trudeau also emphasized that Ukraine must be part of any negotiations aimed at achieving the contract for the end of the war.