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I didn’t let the ministers sign a relevant agreement because in my view it is not ready to protect us, our interest,
Zelenskyy said at the Munich Security Conference in a quote first reported by The Associated Press on Saturday Binding economic ties with the United States will be the best guarantee against future aggression and an integral part of lasting peace. The U.S. recognizes this, the Russians recognize this, and the Ukrainians must recognize this,
Ultimately … Ukraine will have to be involved because they’re the ones that were invaded, and the Europeans will have to be involved because they have sanctions on Putin and Russia as well,
Help us defend this, and we will make money on this together. And here it's very important that in this document shall be a term to protect it. And that is the security guarantees,
We say that we have titanium in Ukraine ... and it is sufficient for industry for 40 years. Forty years,
It seems to me important to understand what we will do with those rare earths that now cost billions, hundreds of billions, that Putin occupied, ... Is it to give to him? ... This is what I want to discuss."
Zelenskiy said on NBC's "Meet the Press." If we are not given the security guarantees from the United States, I believe that the economic treaty will not work. It must all be fair. The second part that is not discussed yet but it must be, that is what Putin captured,
We say, 'Let us defend titanium in Ukraine, and you will not need to pay money neither to Russia nor to China',
President Zelenskyy is being short-sighted about the excellent opportunity the Trump administration has presented to Ukraine."
This minerals agreement between the United States and Ukraine is a game changer, because President Trump can go to the American people and say Ukraine is not a burden, it's a benefit,
If this minerals agreement happens it's a nightmare for Putin, because we have something to defend that we didn't have before,
Subsoil belongs to Ukrainians under the Constitution,
Kseniiia Orynchak, founder of the National Association of Mining Industry of Ukraine, previously told the AP, suggesting a deal would need popular support For me is very important the connection between some kind of security guarantees and some kind of investment,
the Ukrainian president said It’s a colonial agreement and Zelenskyy cannot sign it,
the former senior official said The U.S. recognizes this, the Russians recognize this, and the Ukrainians must recognize this.”
I think it’s important that the vice-president understood me that if we want to sign something, we have to understand that it will work,
I’m a school of realism. I think that’s not going to happen.”
Pressed on whether that meant Europeans would be included, he said You can have the Ukrainians, the Russians, and clearly the Americans at the table talking,
Mr Kellogg said at an event hosted by a Ukrainian tycoon at the Munich Security Conference It is not ready yet to protect our interests,
he told a news conference on the sidelines of the annual Munich Security Conference of global political and military leaders I think that's fair to say."
Democratic Senator Brian Schatz, asked after the meeting if Zelenskiy considered the U.S. proposal one-sided, responded
