The United States and Ukraine Sign a Long-Awaited Critical Minerals Deal

Trump Reaches a Minerals Agreement with Ukraine

On April 30, Ukraine and the United States signed an agreement on developing Ukraine’s natural resources, including rare earth minerals, that “provides mutually beneficial conditions for both countries.” The Ukrainian government will retain full ownership and control of extracting operations and resources, including state-owned companies. The agreement creates a fund to attract global investment into Ukraine, which will operate as an equal partn…

People's Deputy from the “Voice” faction Yaroslav Zheleznyak told the details of the mineral agreement with the United States, which became known after the report of Prime Minister of Ukraine Denis Shmyhal in the Verkhovna Rada.

The United States and Ukraine Sign a Long-Awaited Critical Minerals Deal

After months of fraught negotiations, Washington dropped some key demands but did not provide security guarantees to Kyiv.

A mineral agreement in itself does not guarantee security. The expert compared the situation with a similar agreement with Afghanistan, which was not implemented.

On Wednesday 30 April, the United States and Ukraine, following negotiations and humiliation by Trump of Zelensky in the Oval Office at the end of February, signed a "Agreement on the Establishment of an Investment Fund for Reconstruction between the United States and Ukraine". Previously presented as an agreement on Ukrainian minerals, the signed text goes beyond the rare earths, but also covers other resources such as oil, natural gas, gold an…

In the end, it seems that the countries were able to get part of what they wanted, but Kiev had to give up an important issue