Ukrainian President Volodimier Zelanski on Friday made a push to appeal to Donald Trump’s pencults for a deal on a once-bar-versatile map of rare earth and other important minerals during an interview with Reuters on Friday.
The US President, whose administration is pressurizing Russia for a rapid end of Ukraine’s war, said on Monday that he said to Ukraine in return for financially supporting his war efforts. Wanted to supply America together.
“If we are talking about a deal, let’s make a deal, we are only for this,” Zelancesi said, emphasizing the need for safety guarantee from your colleagues as part of any disposal of Ukraine as part of any disposal of Ukraine. Giving.
Ukraine swams the idea of ​​opening its important minerals by the last autumn colleagues, as it presented a “Vijay Yojana”, which kept it in the strongest position for talks and forced Moscow to the table sought to.
Zelansky said that Ukraine had less than 20% of mineral resources, including about half of the rare earth deposits, were in Russian occupation.
Rare Earth is important in the manufacture of high-demonstration magnets, electric motors and consumer electronics; Zelansky said that Moscow could open those resources to his ally North Korea and Iran, both administered the oath of enemies to us.
“We need to stop Putin and save whatever we have – a very rich DNipro region, middle Ukraine,” he said.
Russian soldiers have been gaining land in the past for months, throwing large resources into an incredible aggressive, while a very small army of Kiev struck a very small army with a shortage of soldiers and freets on the supply of future weapons from abroad Are you
Zelanski exposed a map on a table in the office of the President of the President who was heavily-defined, showing several mineral deposits, including a broad strip of land in the east, with rare earth. About half of this was seen in favor of the current frontline of Russia.
He said that Ukraine had the largest reserves of Europe’s titanium, which is essential for aviation and space industry, and is used for uranium, nuclear power and weapons.
Many deposits of the titanium were marked in the north -western Ukraine, which was away from the fight.
Ukraine has rapidly withdraw its foreign policy approach to align with the transactional world view of Ukraine, the newly living White House.
But Zelancesi insisted that Kiev was not proposing to “distance” his resources, but jointly offering a mutually beneficial partnership to develop them:
“Americans helped the most, and so Americans must earn the most. And they should have this priority, and they will do it. I would like to talk about it with President Trump.”
He said that Russia knew in detail that Ukraine’s important resources were from the Soviet-era geological surveys, which in 1991 Kiev was taken back to Moscow on attaining independence.
In addition, Zelancesi said that Kiev and White House were discussing the idea of ​​using huge underground gas storage sites of Ukraine to store liquorized natural gas.
“I know the Trump administration is very interested in it … we are ready and ready to contract for LNG supply in Ukraine. And of course, we will be a center for the whole of Europe,” he said.
Zelansky wants to hold a meeting with Trump before the US-Russia talks
The interview comes before the Munich Security Conference on 14–16 February, where officials from dozens of western countries will converge an unexpected turn in a three-year war.
Zelansky said he planned to participate in the stage, where Trump’s special messenger for Russia and Ukraine is also expected to Kath Kelog.
The Ukrainian leader said it was necessary that he met Trump before meeting the US President’s Russian President Vladimir Putin, “Otherwise it would look like a dialogue about Ukraine without Ukraine”.
Trump said on Friday that he is expected to talk to Zelansky next week. Zelancesi said his own priority would increase the need for Ukraine’s safety guarantee as part of any deal to prevent Russia from starting another attack in the future.
In general, it was important that the West determined a comprehensive strategy before entering a conversation with Moscow.
He said that there were already regular contacts between his team and Kelog and Trump National Security Advisor Michael Waltz.
“We have contact every day, we talk about normal things, but the nuances will come after a while,” he said.
Trump’s peace push comes as pushing Russian forces, which threatens the Pokarovsk’s leading Ukrainian logistics hub.
In the battlefield, Zelansky first confirmed that his soldiers launched a new aggressive on Thursday, which moved forward 2.5 km (1.5 mi) in the Russian Kursk region.
Russia reported a Ukrainian attack in the region that day, but said it was removed.
Zelancesi said that thousands of North Korean soldiers who fought in favor of Russia had now returned to the Kiev’s army to compete against Kiev’s army after several weeks of break.
Next week, the government has intended to introduce attractive recruitment contracts to woo young men aged 18-24 – Draft below age – to help reduce a manpower lack in armed forces. Zelansky refused to say how many men were expected to sign up.
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