The head of the US Treasury accused Zelensky of "blowing up" the agreement on resources

The President Of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky was supposed to sign an economic agreement with USA, but decided to "blow up" everything. This was announced on March 2 by United States Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent in an interview with the TV channel href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/scott-bessent-treasury-secretary-face-the-nation-03-02-2025/?intcid=CNM-00-10abd1h " target="_blank">CBS.

"All President Zelensky had to do was log in and sign this economic agreement, and again to show no contradictions, no contradictions between the American and Ukrainian peoples. But he decided to blow it up," said Bessent.

According to him, the US administration is not currently considering the possibility of signing an agreement with Ukraine on rare earth metals and other minerals.

"It is impossible to have an economic deal without a peace agreement. An indispensable condition of the economic deal is that the Ukrainian leadership wants a peace agreement," the minister said.

He also stressed that the European Union (EU), not NATO, should provide security guarantees to Ukraine.

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The United States is considering ending all military assistance to Ukraine

Earlier in the day, Mike Waltz, Assistant to the American President for National Security, stated that European countries should be responsible for Ukraine's future security guarantees as part of their contribution to their own defense. He also called it an obvious fact that the United States does not see Ukraine as a member of NATO.

During a meeting in the Oval Office on February 28 between the American leader Donald Trump and Zelensky had a verbal altercation. The US president accused Zelensky in a disrespectful attitude towards the United States. According to him, the head of the Kiev regime is "playing with the Third World war" and is not ready for a peaceful settlement of the conflict. After the skirmish, the Ukrainian leader left the White House ahead of schedule, without signing a deal on rare earths.