Kyiv is suspended by high-ranking US officials to agree to a resource sharing deal that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy judged, is not in the interest of his country what Washington presented.
US President Donald Trump wants Kyiv to provide what he is called as a “equalization” for the support of Washington in the middle of the Ukrainian ongoing fight against a full Russian invasion. And he wants this payment in the form of access to the rare minerals of Ukraine worth around $ 500 billion.
Trump sent the US Finance Minister Scott Bessent to Kyiv last week to try to achieve an agreement about it, but Zelenskyy rejected the proposed conditions. They said they were too unfavorable for Ukraine and did not contain any specific security guarantees.
But US officials do not withdraw. On Thursday, Mike Waltz, the national security advisor of the White House, asked Zelenskyy to return to the table about negotiations in connection with the edition of minerals, while Besseter prompted the Ukrainian leader to first present the US that the United States had presented the US had not agreed.
“Instead of having some constructive conversations about what this deal should be in the future, we have a lot of rhetoric in the media, which were incredibly unhappy,” Waltz said about the decision of the Ukrainians to reject the US offer.
In Kyiv, Zelenskyy had spent part of his meeting with Keith Kellogg, Trump’s special representative for Ukraine and Russia. After the SIT-Down, a planned press conference was canceled and replaced by a short photo session, and a Ukrainian presidential spokesman said that this was true with the US wishes.
The US delegation made no comment.
In a contribution to X, Zelenskyy wrote that he had “a productive meeting” with Kellogg and that he “was grateful to the United States for all the support and cross -party support for Ukraine and the Ukrainian people”.
Reuters reported on Wednesday that the Trump administration Zelenskyy is considering a simplified mineral contract, although the Ukrainian president did not point out that he was in his social media comments on Thursday.
Change attitude in Washington
Ukraine faced almost three years in the all-out war after Russia started his full invasion of its neighbor on February 24, 2022.
The United States was a strong supporter of the Ukraine fight when Joe Biden was still in the White House. But Washington’s position changed in the first month of the new Trump presidency.
Trump recently announced that he had spoken to Russian President Vladimir Putin, and instructed US officials to start talks with Russia about the end of the war. Zelenskyy, who had tried to get to the front of the line to meet Trump, was informed about it according to the fact.
Trump administration officers have met with some Russian colleagues in Saudi Arabia since then, but Ukraine has been excluded from these conversations.
The US allies expressly alerted after President Donald Trump has joined the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and described him as a “dictator without elections” and accused him of bringing money to wage Russia.
Keir Giles, a Russia expert in Great Britain in Chatham House Think-Tank, says that the Trump government gave Putin exactly what he wanted what is not peace.
“What Russia wanted was rehabilitation, should be awarded from the cold, from the isolation, for aggression,” he told CBCs to Ukraine Power and politics. “And the United States handed over Russia on a plate.”
In the middle of this obvious approach, Ukraine is asked to agree with the “extortion” of a resource sharing contract with the USA, he said.
“The problem of Ukraine is that the requirements placed by the United States are not much worse instead of agreeing to a peace agreement.
In the past few days, Trump has verbally attacked Zelenskyy and referred to him as the “dictator without elections” – an obvious allusion to the fact that the conditions in war have delayed the Ukrainian elections. Zelenskyy, in turn, said it seemed that the US leader lived in a “disinformation room” made by Russia.
Pushback to Zelenskyy’s setback
Zelenskyy was criticized because he is pushing back against Trump.
“There must be a deep appreciation for what the American people and the American taxpayer, what President Trump did in his first term and what we have done since then,” said Waltz, the national security advisor, when the White House is registered.
“To be honest, there are some of the rhetoric that comes from Kyiv, and insults for President Trump (that) were unacceptable.”
Oleksiy Gonchenko, a Ukrainian legislator, saw Zelenskyy’s reaction as inappropriate and inappropriate because US support for Ukraine continues to have driven.
“Everyone knows that President Trump hates being publicly criticized and we are unable to do so,” he told the telegraph to the daily T -Podcast. “What will we do without American support?” he asked.
Trump’s comments were nevertheless shot down by some allies of Ukraine, among other things by French President Emmanuel Macron, who said on Thursday that Zelenskyy was a “legitimate” leader after he came to power in contrast to Russia’s Putin.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke to Zelenskyy on Thursday and repeated that “Canada will always be to defend Ukraine,” said a selection from the call.
Trudeau also emphasized that Ukraine must be part of negotiations that aim to achieve a deal to terminate the war.
