The mineral deal of US Ukraine: what we know

Ukraine signed a contract that gave the United States control over a share of future income from natural resources, a long -awaited agreement that Kyiv hopes to facilitate the way for the continued support in the USA.

The announcement on Wednesday that the deal had been signed was found after months of residence negotiations-an explosive Oval Office confrontation instead when the Trump government tries to convey an end to Ukraine with Russia at the end of the three-year war war.

The agreement, in which a joint investment fund is created between the federal states, is intended to give President Trump a personal part of the country's fate and at the same time his concerns that the United States have made an empty check available to withstand the invasion of Russia. It could also clarify the way for subsequent discussions about the support of the US military for Ukraine and the conditions of a possible ceasefire with Russia.

What is in the business?

The mineral agreement will create an investment fund controlled by the USA that would achieve income from the natural resources of Ukraine, as can be seen from a copy of the agreement published on Thursday.

It seems that Ukraine managed to get something from what it wanted, but not everything.

The Trump government had said in March that Ukraine wanted to repay Ukraine in the war with its mineral assets – which Ukraine had been financially violated for generations. The idea of ​​treating this help as debt was eliminated in the final deal. And the deal seems to expressly keep the door for Ukraine open in order to finally join the European Union.