Trump says that Putin will have to make concessions, the US will not make Ukraine guarantees “beyond much”

Kyiv and London – President Donald Trump said he will not make security guarantees to Ukraine “beyond much”, such as the eyes of the United States signs a mineral agreement with Ukraine.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Western security guarantees are necessary for a high fire in the war with Russia.

When asked during the first meeting of the cabinet of his second term on Wednesday, what security guarantee is willing to do, Trump replied: “I will not make security guarantees beyond. We are going to make Europe do that.”

“We are talking about Europe is the neighbor next door,” he continued. “But we will make sure everything goes well.”

Trump announced that he will sign the mineral agreement with Zelenskyy in the White House on Friday and said his administration is “happy” with the agreement. He has said that some access to rare land minerals of Ukraine would be necessary to ensure an agreement that involves the continuous support of the nation to Ukraine.

At the end of the war in Ukraine, Trump said he is able to reach an agreement with Russia that could end the conflict and pointed out that Russian President Vladimir Putin will have to make concessions, although Trump did not come into details about what could be.

Russian and higher American diplomats are expected to make conversations again on Thursday in Istanbul, according to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.

Zelenskyy emphasizes future security guarantees

Zelenskyy told a press conference in kyiv on Wednesday on Wednesday that Ukraine has been working on a “preliminary framework” for a mineral exchange agreement with the United States, but again warned that no agreement can succeed without sufficient Western security guarantees.

“Without future safety guarantees, we will not be high,” said Zelenskyy. “And if we don’t have it, nothing will work. Nothing will work.”

Zelenskyy told ABC News that Trump will face a “lot [of] “Putin” challenges. It is really very difficult. I understand that President Trump wants to do it quickly. “

“But this is not a dialogue with someone,” Zelenskyy added. “He will have many challenges with Putin, because he doesn’t want to end the war.”

“The most important thing is to end the war yesterday,” the president continued. “We need to concentrate to obtain peace without any possibility of returning to war. That is why we are focusing only on peace and durable. This is more important than weeks. Of course we want in a matter of days.”

Zelensky also said that he is ready to be “flexible” about security guarantees, which suggests that the United States did not need to be in their center, but could contribute along with other countries. The president added that he wants to ask Trump if the United States could stop US military aid in the future. For now, he said, there is no freezing in help.

Zelenskyy emphasized that any mineral agreement cannot put Ukraine in debt for previous US subsidies in times of war. That would open a “Pandora box,” he said, allowing other nations to demand payments.

Treatment details

The countries agreed an agreement related to critical minerals and other resources, a senior Ukrainian official said on Tuesday.

The details of the agreement seem to suggest that kyiv has managed to significantly improve the terms, perhaps to look at some of the most expensive demands of the Trump administration.

The $ 500 billion required by Trump no longer characteristics in the agreement, and the fund in which Ukraine will pay will no longer be 100% owned by the United States, according to the full text of the agreement obtained by ABC News.

Ukraine agreed to contribute 50% of all the income of its natural resources to a Joint Property Fund of Ukraine and the United States, according to the agreement. Natural resources assets include those directly or indirectly owned by the Ukrainian government and are defined as “mineral, hydrocarbons, oil, natural gas and other removable materials, and other relevant infrastructure for natural resources assets (such as liquefied natural gas terminals and port infrastructure)”.

“The contributions made to the Fund will be reinvested at least annually in Ukraine to promote the security, security and prosperity of Ukraine, to be further defined in the fund agreement,” says the agreement.

When Rachel Scott, from ABC News, asked if Trump has spoken with Zelenskyy and if he has signed the Marf Deal framework, the White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, said the administration is close to obtaining an agreement.

“The critical mineral agreement and the rare steel, as President Trump said, is absolutely fundamental. We are very close to the finish line and making that agreement,” Leavitt said. “And the president said yesterday, he will welcome Zelenskyy to the White House to sign or visit whether that is what Zelenskyy wants to do.”

A Ukrainian official who described the details of the agreement to ABC News said that the resources to which the agreement will be applied are only those that currently do not contribute to the Ukrainian budget, which means that there is no oil and gas, or probably most of the country’s mineral resources.

If the final agreement remains close to those terms, the agreement may be quite restricted in real economic terms.

Carl Bildt, former Swedish prime minister and co -chair of the European Foreign Affairs Council, told BBC News that the mineral seems like a “secondary show” and was mainly designed to “keep Mr. Trump happy.”

“But it is not going to give much money to the United States, and I don’t see that it has any materially economic effect for many years,” Bildt told the BBC.

ABC News’ Will Gretsky, Hannah Demissie, Rachel Scott and Michelle Stoddart contributed to this report.