After the agreement of minerals, Trump approves weapons for Ukraine, plays the peace plan | Russia-Ukraine was news

The administration of Donald Trump approved her first sale of weapons to Ukraine last week, after signing a memorandum intended to exploit the Ukrainian mineral assets, which indicates that the US foreign and defense policy is driven by economic policy as part of its current president.

The US Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) announced on May 2 that the Trump administration approved the sale of parts, maintenance and training for F-16 fighter aircraft to Ukraine worth $ 310 million.

Defense newspaper The war zone had previously announced that F-16S were shipped by a cemetery of the US air weapon in Arizona to Ukraine for spare parts, and published photos of partially mined F-16 flure, which were invited to a Ukrainian Antonov-124 transport aircraft at Tucson International Airport on May 1st.

The US sales announcement did not include operative F-16 aircraft or rockets, but the European allies of Ukraine report a total of 85 functioning F-16.

This sale was the first military aid of the Trump government in Ukraine, and the Ukraine of first aid would pay for this.

The former administration of President Joe Biden provided Ukraine financial and military grants of $ 130 billion.

The Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy publicly offered to buy US gun systems on April 15 for the first time, and was particularly demanding according to Patriot Air Defense Systems.

The US sale followed the signing of a memorandum on April 30 of the US Finance Minister Scott Bessent and the Ukrainian first deputy Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko to take advantage of new minerals in Ukraine, including metals, oil and gas.

“This agreement clearly signals Russia that the Trump government has committed a peace process that concentrates in the long term on a free, sovereign and prospering Ukraine,” said Bessent.

The memorandum said that half of the proceeds from license fees and license fees that are to be paid to the government of Ukraine are brought to an investment fund for reconstruction purposes. It was not determined whether US investors would invest a share of their proceeds in a similar way or whether the US government would make it easier to invest. The memorandum has also not given a time frame for the investment.

Svyrydenko said the US government would contribute to the reconstruction fund without determining how much.

Zelenskyy called it in his Mayday evening address “Really an equal partnership” and said it would “earn money” in partnership with the USA and Ukraine.

“This partnership sends a strong message to Russia-the United States in the game and is committed to the long-term success of Ukraine,” said a statement by the White House.

Trump resigns from the peace agreement

One day after the mineral contract was signed, the Trump government began to distance itself from the prospect of peace in Ukraine, although Trump quickly promised after his inauguration.

On April 17, the government delivered a ceasefire offer to Russia and Ukraine and called it “final”.

“It will be up to you to reach an agreement and to stop this brutal, brutal conflict,” the US Vice President JD Vance told Fox News on May 1.

“We won't fly around the world, organize the mediation meeting. Now it is on the two sides,” said Tammy Bruce, spokesman for the Foreign Ministry.

The US Foreign Minister and the incumbent national security advisor Marco Rubio told Fox News on the same day: “We have so many, I would argue even more importantly that there are problems all over the world.

While the Ukraine has approved a 30-day proposal for the 30-day armistice, Russia has not proposed a three-day ceasefire to protect 29 international leaders who attended a victory parade in Moscow on May 9th in Moscow at the end of World War II.

Zelenskyy dismissed this request. On May 9th he again asked Putin for “a 30-day silence. But it has to be real. No rocket or drone attacks, no hundreds of attacks on the front … The Russians … have to prove their willingness to end the war.”

The spokesman for the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharova, replied on the grounds of Zelenskyy, “clearly threatened the leaders of the world”.

The spokesman for Kreml, Dmitry Peskov, told reporters that the three -day ceasefire should “test Kyiv's willingness to find paths for long -term sustainable peace”.

The Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told the O -Globo newspaper in Brazil: “The ball is not in our dish. [Kyiv] has not shown any willingness to negotiate. “

Is Russia serious with peace?

Russia has followed his war against Ukraine to the fullest and opened 1,300 attacks since the beginning of May.

Russia suffered 35,000 victims in April and only less than 126,000 in the first four months of 2025, said the Department of Defense of Ukraine – the equivalent of three rifles. During this time, Russia occupied 1,627 km² (628 square miles), a number that contained the reconquest of his own Conschair region in March, according to the institute for the investigation of the war (ISW).

Al Jazeera is unable to check the victims independently.

However, the ISW said that the Russian profits “would have slowed down when Russian armed forces in and around larger cities such as Kupiansk, Chasiv Yar, Toretsk and Pokrovsk have defended Ukrainian positions in the past four months.

The Ukrainian commander -in -chief Oleksandr Syrskii said that the main threats were in “mainly Sumy and Kursk, Pokrovsky, Novopavlovsk”.

Russia has reinforced its use of controlled air bombs (CABS) this year, said Ukraine Task Force in April in April by 5,000 compared to 4,800 in March, 3,370 in February and January 1,830.

Ukraine sees these 1.5-ton bombs as one of the greatest difficulties on the front. The neutralization of Russia's ability to start it deep in Russia from airplanes was the main reason for the request of strike functions by former President Joe Biden.

Russia also rose across long -distance distances with the cities of Ukraine.

Overnight on May 1st, Russia fired five Iskander ballistic rockets and 170 drones and birds. Two other Iskander and 183 drones were launched on May 2. The northern city of Kharkiv, just 30 km from the Russian border, was particularly hard. The state emergency service said that 10 fires were recorded in various districts of the city. About 44 people were injured. Russia met Kharkiv days later and devoured his commercial market on fire.

Russia started 165 drones the following day on the 3rd and 116 drones and 2 Iskander missiles. On Wednesday, a ballistic rocket and drones hit Kyiv and killed a mother and a son.

“The Russians ask for silence on May 9, but they themselves beat Ukraine every day,” wrote Zelenskyy in telegram.

The ISW said: “The Kremlin tries to extend negotiations to remove additional concessions from the USA and Ukraine.”

The Ukraine strikes back

Ukraine held its front against an escalating Russian rush and hit targeted blows against the Russia's military machine.

The Ukrainian director of the military secret service, Kyrylo Budanov, told The War Zone that the Ukrainian Magura-7-unspoiled surface runs successfully broken two Russian Sukhoi 30 fighter aircraft with AIM-9-sideway missiles, which were originally developed for the use of AIM.

The pilot of the first Russian SU-30 was saved by a civil ship near the port of No.Rossiysk in the Black Sea. The second SU-30 fell over the Crimea. The crew did not survive, said Budanov.

The dismantling of a sukhoi by a surface trough is unprecedented, he added.

The Ukrainian military intelligence was pioneer in the use of surface -Kamikaze drones to beat Russian black -seater fleet ships, and used them on December 31 to start rockets, with two Russian helicopters being reduced.

It was the first time that surface roaring against air goals were used – another Ukrainian innovation.

Since the end of 2022, Ukraine has also done the use of light drones from the first person as a pioneering work to carry out targeted ammunition drops on enemy armor and staff.

“In the past two months – March and April – our drones have hit and destroyed over 160 thousand enemy goals,” wrote Syrskii in telegram.

In April, drones destroyed more than 83,000 destinations, 8 percent more than in March, and praised the “effectiveness of the Ukrainian unmanned systems”.

In addition, he said that deep -striking stalks had scored 62 destinations on Russian territory in April.

Last week, Ukrainian drones started the work of fiber optic systems in Saransk, the Republic of Mordovia, for the second time in a month, with Russia's Russia-optical cable in unmanned aerial vehicles. They also seemed to have hit the nearby Saranskkabel machine construction system.

Ukraine also met the instrument design office in Tula, the tank section systems and small weapons as well as the scientific production association (SPLAV), which produces rocket systems with several moods.

In addition, Ukraine claimed to have met airbases in the Moscow and Kaluga, Housing Cruise Raksies, Tupolev-22M3 Strategic Bombers and SU-27 and MIG-29 fighter aircraft.

“You write the history of modern Ukrainian statehood,” Syrskii wrote on Tuesday about Telegram. “You are the modern history of Ukraine.”