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President Donald Trump says that the US does not provide the security of Ukraine “more than” as to prepare a critical minerals deal on Friday.
“I don’t take over security guarantees that are greater,” Trump said his first meeting at the Cabinet on Wednesday. “We need to do in Europe that” because “Europe is the next neighbor neighbor”.
US president also confirms his Ukrainian counterpart, Volangymy Zelenskyy, goes to Washington on Friday to sign the APPROVAL. “We really go with Ukraine in terms of Wonderful land. We must be more unique earth, they have many wonderful land. “
He added that the agreement could be worth “maybe $ 350bn” in the US and $ 100bn in Europe.
Trump’s reminders arrived as the All-out of Russia War against Ukraine It enters a fourth year and its forces continue to count their grinding of eastern battlefields.
Ukraine has managed to slow the speed where its enemy takes the land and continues in a swath of territory within Russia it is obtained in August. But Kyiv is facing manpower and weapon disadvantages while Trump threatens to deny important help.
Zelenskyy had demanded clear guarantees of US military backing and security be part of the deal with washington, but a framework agreed this week by both sides did not include an explicit reference to such support.
Negotiators in Ukraine have made a bath in the scope of the agreement, but some keys Details have not been implanted.
“Not containing all security guarantees Ukraine, but I want at least one sentence that deals with guarantees – and there,” Zelenskyy said Wednesday.
He said the future of the agreement to withdraw his wider Trump address and his principle in support of Ukraine.
“This Agreement may have an important success or quiet passing,” says Zelenskyy. “And I believe that a prime success depends on our talking with President Trump.”
In a broader agreement with peace between Moscow and Ukraine, Trump said Russian President Vladimir Putin “must” make concessions. But he refused to specify what it was. “I don’t want to say now,” he said.
But Trump has repeated the US position that Ukraine can “forget” a path to the NATO membership, a key point of imposition for Putin.
US to do “The best we can do to make the best agreement we can for both sides”, added Ukrainian territory) back “to Kyiv.
If asked if Russia is allowed to maintain Ukrainian territory that has taken a dangerous message to other enemies in the US, Trump said: “Oh, you try to pick it up.”
Russia occupies about 20 percent of the Ukrainian land, including the crimean peninsula, forced it to identify the territories of 2014
Trump says the healing of Russian sanctions is not an option in any peace agreement. “No, I want to see us to do the agreement first, but I think we are,” he said.
When asked how Washington supports any European pioneering efforts in a postwar sitwar, Trump says “It is very easy for Peokekeeping”.
“Allow me to do peace first. Once we make peace give you all the answers you want,” he added.
