The US says the income from the minerals will nourish the postwar growth of Ukraine

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The US Treasury Minister defended Donald Trump’s pressure on the agreement with Ukraine on the development of its natural resources and critical minerals, saying that the plan will nourish the growth in the country and does not provide for forced economic pressure.

Scott’s Comments OP-U for Financial Times Come when Trump administration officials try to consolidate what they claim is an economic partnership with Kiev as part of their broader diplomatic push to conclude a peaceful deal between Russia and Ukraine.

Ukrainian officials have still rejected the US demands to such an agreement, but US officials put strong pressure on Kyiv in their pressure on the transaction.

This week, officials in Kiev believe that the pressure of Trump against the Ukrainian president of Loladimir Zelensky, calling him a dictator and believing that Ukraine, not Russia started the war, are ways of strong movement of Kiev into the mineral business.

The OP-ED Bessent outlined some US proposal details. He said that Ukraine’s income from “natural resources, infrastructure and other assets” will “be allocated to a fund focused on long -term reconstruction and development of Ukraine, where the US will have economic and management rights in these future investments.”

However, the Bygromel did not say how much revenue from mining will be allocated to the fund or how much the US will be paid. Trump presented a mineral transaction as a way to provide Ukraine with previous military aid in the US.

The latest draft agreement dated Friday and is being considered by Financial Times requires the reconstruction of an investment fund, in which the United States “maintains 100 percent financial interest”.

Ukraine will make 50 percent of the fund’s income due to minerals until its contribution reached $ 500 billion. This is a figure that Ukrainian officials call it unacceptable.

Parliament’s speaker Ruslan Stefanchuk said Kyiv could start completing the transaction on Monday on Saturday.

Another Ukrainian official emphasized that he would only be signed after Kyiv receives security guarantees.

In his prompt order, the inflate said that the agreement would include “high standards of transparency, accountability, corporate management and legal framework necessary to attract reliable private investment for post -war growth in Ukraine” and participation of America “will not leave a place for corruption and insider transactions ”

US Treasury Minister went to Ukraine earlier this month on his first international trip to stop the deal VolodyMyr ZelenskyyPresident.

While US officials, including Mike Waltz, a national security adviser, said they believe that the deal is close, Ukrainian officials are more protected.

“The project on the table now requires more work,” said the man who participates in the negotiations. “We see that there are many commitments of Ukraine and very weak things (proposed) from the American side, so the project, as it is today, is not ready to be accepted at the president’s level.”

Negotiations took place early in the morning on the third day and will continue on Saturday and probably on Sunday.

Zelensky stated that the initial proposal was not in the benefit of Ukraine because it demanded 50 percent of the country’s rare and critical minerals in exchange for past military aid and did not contain any proposals for future assistance.

Official Ukrainians said they had held last week, drawing up a counter -law they discussed with the US Special Envoy in Ukraine Keith Kealo on Thursday and Friday.

Zelenskyy wants Trump administration to provide security guarantees in the new proposal before they agree to subscribe.

In operational order, the inflatory said that the terms of the transaction “ensure that countries that do not contribute to the protection of Ukraine’s sovereignty will not be able to use its reconstruction and this investment.”

The infant also suggested that the US did not try to seize control over Ukraine’s natural resources. “Let’s also realize that this is not the case. The United States will not take on physical assets in Ukraine. Also, it would not be Ukraine with greater debt. This type of economic pressure, which unfolds by other world subjects, does not promote American and Ukrainian interests, ”he wrote.