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This agreement is part of our larger agreements with the United States. This agreement could be part of future security guarantees... an agreement is an agreement, but we need to understand the broader vision,
The Government of the United States of America supports Ukraine's efforts to obtain security guarantees needed to establish lasting peace."
A copy of a draft agreement, seen by Reuters and dated February 25, said The main thing for me is we are not debtors. There is no $500 billion debt in the agreement, nor $350, nor $100 billion because that would be unfair,
Zelenskiy told a news briefing of the agreement Already existing deposits, facilities, licenses and rents are not subject to discussion when creating this fund,
After the Ukrainian president and the U.S. president agree on security guarantees, agree on how we tie this preliminary agreement to security guarantees from the United States for our country, in the presence of (both) presidents, a representative of the Ukrainian government will sign this preliminary agreement,
Macron himself endorsed this plan, he saw it as being something as significant, that could potentially lead to the beginnings of a true peace negotiation,
Al Jazeera’s Stratford said This is hugely significant, because certainly, according to the Ukrainians we’ve been speaking to all week, this [deal] is seen as a means for Donald Trump to basically get what he wants,
Al Jazeera’s Charles Stratford said Donald Trump appears to have broken all norms in international policy by doing this, and he’s losing a lot of US soft power by being so transactional,
Theresa Fallon, director of the Centre for Russia Europe Asia Studies and a senior fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, told Al Jazeera It’s OK to be transactional,
said Fallon, ... she said After [President] Donald Trump’s remarks last week … it is clear that this government does not care much about the fate of Europe,
he said, calling for German “independence” from the US We’re spending hundreds of billions of dollars on Russia and Ukraine fighting a war that should have never, ever happened.”
He reiterated this on Tuesday, saying I didn’t let the ministers sign a relevant agreement because in my view it is not ready to protect us, our interest,
Zelenskyy was quoted as saying by the Associated Press during the Munich Security Conference on February 15. About five percent of all the world’s ‘critical raw materials’ are located in Ukraine, which occupies only 0.4 percent of the Earth’s surface,
Svetlana Grinchuk, Ukraine’s deputy minister of environmental protection and natural resources, said during a UN meeting in 2022 One cannot count up to $500bn and say, ‘Give us back $500bn in minerals.’ That’s not a serious discussion,
Zelenskyy said on February 19. This peace must allow for Ukrainian sovereignty and allow Ukraine to negotiate with other stakeholders,
Macron said after meeting with Trump in Washington $350 billion and lots of equipment, military equipment, and the right to fight on.”
Asked by reporters what Ukraine would receive in the deal, Trump said We’ve pretty much negotiated our deal on rare earth and various other things,
We included it in our victory plan earlier, which was presented by our president to the US and the rest of our partners in 2024.
Speaking to BBC Radio 4's Today program, Sak said I wanted to have a sentence on security guarantees for Ukraine, and it's important that it's there,
Very soon we'll get used to the very unusual nature of this negotiating process. At the same time, we are not a nation of freeloaders, we understand that this war has lasted for three years and the time has come to switch to a slightly different narrative."
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