The media announced the expectation of the United States to ratify the agreement on resources in the rada in a week.

The United States expects that the agreement with Ukraine on mining can be ratified by the Verkhovna Rada within a week. This was reported on May 1 by Sky News with reference to a senior representative of the American administration.

According to him, three key documents making up the deal were signed on Wednesday. According to the terms of the agreement, half of the rent from new natural resource projects in Ukraine will be allocated to the United States. At the same time, we are talking not only about rare earth elements, but also about other mineral resources.

It is noted that Washington will also receive preferential access to future deals on Ukrainian mineral resources. In addition, the United States plans to make direct financial contributions to the investment fund being created.

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The day before, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced that Washington and Kiev had signed an agreement on Ukraine's natural resources. In addition, the countries have concluded a deal on the creation of an investment fund for the reconstruction of Ukraine, he added.

On April 17, Vice President of Ukraine, Minister of Economy Yulia Sviridenko announced that Kiev and Washington had signed a memorandum on an agreement on minerals. The next day, Deputy Zheleznyak published the text of the memorandum on his Telegram channel, noting that there was no mention of security guarantees in the document.