Ukrainian President VolodyMyr Zenskyy Prepares to meet Vice President JD Vance at the Munich Safety Conference Later this week after he confirmed Friday that he is ready to “close a deal” with President Donald Trump.
According to an interview with Reuters, Zenskyy said he was ready to provide the US with rare-earth minerals in exchange for Washington’s continuous support of his war effort.
“When we are talking about a deal, let’s leave a deal, we are alone,” said Zenskyy.
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President VolodyMyr Zenskyy has said that he is ready to “close a deal” with President Trump about the rare-earth minerals of Ukraine in exchange for continuous financial support. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)
The Ukrainian president has made it clear that he is also open to peace talks with Russia to put an end to the three -year war, although possible conditions for securing a peace agreement remain varied and unknown.
Although Zenskyy has said that he is looking for “guarantees” when it comes to future safety insurance policies for the war torn by war.
These security insurance will probably have to be more than a formal handshake in combination with a signed document, because Russia has twice violated his last agreement with Ukraine, known as the Budapest -Memorandum from 1994.
The deal saw Kyiv hand over its nuclear arsenal to Moscow for dismantling in exchange for sovereignty and independence guarantees of Russia, the US and the UK, the agreement did not prevent Russia from falling in Ukraine twice under Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Zenskyy apparently drove the idea of Trade Ukraine’s mineral resources -AverVereer 20% of this are now in Russian-controlled area, including half of the variety with rare earth-under his “Victory Plan” presented for the first time to Western allies last fall, Reuters reported.
Rare earth materials are used in the production of consumer electronics and electric motors. Zenskyy has warned that Russia could give these means to his allies such as Noord -Korea and Iran – the last whose US still started heavier sanction last week.
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Former President Donald Trump meets President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Trump Tower, September 27, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
“We have to stop Putin and protect what we have – a very rich DNIPRO region, central Ukraine,” said Zenskyy.
Although Trump will not attend Munich’s safety conference, Zenskyy will be the Ukrainian delegation there and It is said that it is expected to meet With Vance and special envoy for Ukraine and Russia, retired Lt. Gene. Keith Kellogg.
Trump told reporters last week that Zenskyy can travel to DC in the week after the security conference, which runs 14-16 February, after which both presidents will come together again to discuss the war.
“I would like to see that war end,” Trump told reporters last week. “We want to conclude a deal with Ukraine where they will secure what we give them with their rare earth and other things.”
The war effort of Russia in the east of Ukraine remains furious and Moscow claimed on Friday that it had conquered the Mijnstad Toretsk in the Donetsk region despite Ukraine’s months of attempts To stop Russian claims.
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The ruins of the city of Toretsk are located in the Donetsk region, Oost -Boekraine, on December 19, 2024. Russia, on February 7, 2025, claimed that he finally seized the mining city. (Ukinnel/Nurphoto via Getty images)
While Moscow continues to see incremental profit in eastern Ukraine, Kyiv also pushes ahead with his own attempts to grasp Russian territory, which security experts have told that Fox News Digital could be an attempt to give it better Negotiation of leverage comes the time for cessation -furen interviews With Moscow.
Zenskyy also said on Friday that Ukraine had opened a new offensive in the Russian region of Kursk, where Kyiv started with his invasion in August 2024 for the first time.
“New attacks have taken place in the areas of the Kursk operation,” said Zenskyy during his nocturnal address. “Russia once again deployed North Korean soldiers next to his troops.”
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Ukrainian forces are fighting forces in the Kursk region in Malaya Loknya, Russia, obtained from a hand -out video released in this screen Gab released on August 20, 2024. (Air Assault Brigade/Handout via Reuters)
It is unclear whether Noord -Korea sent more troops to Russia after the first effort of no fewer than 12,000 men in October last October, although the South Korean intelligence service has warned that Pyongyang is planning to do this.
Zenskyy said Sunday evening that Ukrainian troops in Kursk demonstrate very effective enemy destruction, although he did not describe any victims among Russian or North Korean troops.
“We have to hold all our positions firmly,” he said. “The stronger we are in the front line, the stronger our diplomacy – our work with partners – will be.”
