Ukrainian President Voldimia Zelensky confirmed on Friday that he was ready to meet Vice President JD Vance at the Munich Security Conference later this week. It's there.
Zelensky said Washington is ready to supply the US with rare earth minerals in exchange for continued support of war efforts.
“If we're talking about trading, let's trade, we're just for that,” Zelensky said.
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President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he is ready to “trade” with President Trump on Ukraine's rare earth minerals in exchange for continued financial support. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)
The Ukrainian president is also open to join peace negotiations with Russia to end the three-year war, despite the diverse and unknown possible conditions for securing peace deals. It has revealed that there is.
Zelenskyy says he is looking for a “guarantee” when it comes to future security assurances for a war-torn country.
As Russia has violated its last agreement with Ukraine, known as the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, twice, these security guarantees must be more than a formal handshake combined with signed documents.
With this deal, Kiev handed over nuclear weapons to Moscow in exchange for sovereignty and independence guarantees from Russia, the US and the UK, which agreed to invade Ukraine twice under the President of Russia's Ukrainian president. I didn't stop doing that.
Zelenskyy appears to have first come to the idea of trading Ukrainian mineral resources. About 20% of that is currently in the territory of Russia's control, under his “Victory Plan,” which was first presented to Western Allies last fall. .
Rare earth materials are used in the production of home appliances and electric engines. Zelenskyy warned that Russia could give these resources to allies like North Korea and Iran.
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Former President Donald Trump will meet President Volodimia Zelensky at Trump Tower in New York on September 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Julia Demarie Nikinson)
“We need to stop Putin and protect what we have. It's a very rich Dnipro region, central central Ukraine,” Zelenkie said.
Trump will not attend the security conference in Munich, but Zelensky will lead the Ukrainian delegation. Reportedly, they are expected to meet He retired as Lieutenant General Keith Kellogg along with Vance and envoy to Ukraine and Russia.
Trump told reporters last week that Zelensky could travel to DC the week after the security meeting, which will be held from February 14-16.
“I want to see the end of that war,” Trump told reporters last week. “We're going to sign a deal with Ukraine and ensure they have what we're giving them with their rare earths and other things.”
Russia's war efforts in eastern Ukraine continue to be furious, claiming that Moscow on Friday captured Tretsk, a mining town in the Donetsk region, despite Ukraine's months of attempts to stop Russia's progress. did.
Trump is set to meet Zelensky, who is about to end the Ukrainian War.
The ruins of Toretsk city will be located on December 19, 2024 in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine. On February 7, 2025, Russia claimed that it had finally seized the mining city. (Ukrinform/Nurphoto via Getty Images)
As Moscow continues to increase its progressive profits in eastern Ukraine, Kiev is moving forward with its own attempt to seize Russian territory. Security experts say Fox News Digital is an attempt to provide better negotiation leverage. Moscow.
Zelensky also said on Friday that Ukraine opened a new attack on Russia's Kursk region, where Kiev first launched the invasion in August 2024.
“In the area of Operation Kursk, new attacks have occurred,” Zelenskyy said in his evening speech. “Russia has once again deployed North Korean soldiers with its troops.”
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The Ukrainian army will fight in the Kursk region of Malayaloknya in Russia with this screen grab obtained from a handout video released on August 20, 2024. (Air Attack Brigade/handouts via Reuters)
It is unclear whether North Korea sent more troops to Russia after first deploying 12,000 men last October, but South Korea's intelligence news warns that Pyongyang plans to do so I'm doing it.
On Zelensky's Sunday night, Ukrainian forces in Kursk said they “demonstrate a very effective enemy destruction,” but he did not detail the casualty rates among Russian or North Korean forces.
“We have to hold every position firmly,” he said. “The more we are on the forefront, the stronger our diplomacy, that is, our work with our partners.”
