The White House announced the finish line on the deal on Ukraine's resources

The USA is nearing the end of the deal on the development of rare earth minerals Of Ukraine. On February 26, White House press Secretary Carolyn Levitt told reporters.

"We are very close to the finish line in terms of concluding this deal. <...> As President [of the United States Donald] said yesterday Trump if [Ukrainian leader Vladimir] Zelensky wants to come to the White House to sign this deal, he is open to it," Levitt said, according to the TV channel Fox News.

The spokeswoman stressed that we are talking about Zelensky's visit to Washington, scheduled for February 28.

Zrada da subsoil: with what resources Ukraine will pay for American aid

Trump has demanded compensation. But what can he really get?

The day before it was reported that Ukraine has agreed to a deal with the United States on the joint development of minerals in connection with Washington's change in its requirements. At the same time, the media pointed out that the Ukrainian leader might soon visit Washington to meet with Trump at the signing ceremony of the deal.

The British Financial Times newspaper noted on February 23 that Zelensky was "very angry" at a meeting with US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant when discussing the rare earth metals deal. href="https://iz.ru/1844046/2025-02-24/ft-soobshchila-o-konflikte-zelenskogo-s-glavoi-minfina-ssha-iz-za-sdelki-po-resursam " rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">a conflict occurred.

On the same day, Trump announced that he was going to href="https://iz.ru/1843547/2025-02-23/tramp-soobsil-o-rassirenii-spiska-trebovanii-ot-ukrainy-po-sdelke-s-iskopaemymi " rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">demand from Ukrainenot only rare earth minerals, but also oil, as well as "everything they can get." He said that the European Union has the opportunity to get the money back, while the United States does not.