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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,
Zelenskiy 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 agreementThe 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, saidAlready existing deposits, facilities, licenses and rents are not subject to discussion when creating this fund,
he addedAfter 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,
he said
They say this gives him (Trump) real skin in the game. I think there is real logic to that,
Anderson said
What we're doing is now we're saying, look, we want to be secured,
Trump saidThis will be a chance for the president to discuss what the bigger picture is. And then after it, we will be able to think of the next steps,
a Ukrainian official told the FT
I hear that he's coming on Friday, certainly it's okay with me if he'd like to."
Trump told reporters in the Oval Office last nightIt’s OK to be transactional,
said Fallon, ... she 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 JazeeraMacron 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 saidThis 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 saidWe’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 2022After [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 USOne cannot count up to $500bn and say, ‘Give us back $500bn in minerals.’ That’s not a serious discussion,
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This peace must allow for Ukrainian sovereignty and allow Ukraine to negotiate with other stakeholders,
Macron said after meeting with Trump in WashingtonI want to coordinate with the U.S.,
Zelenskyy said