The United States and Ukraine announced on Wednesday the creation of a new reconstruction and investment fund, formalizing an economic Aalrement between the two countries that seek to access the United States to the process of the reserves of rare earth minerals of Ukraine.
The agreement concludes months of tense negotiations on whether the United States will continue to provide Ukraine economic and military support for Ukraine, since it tries to negotiate the end of its war with Russia. The economic agreement is intended to provide Ukraine an implicit security agreement while approaching President Trump’s concerns that the United States has been provident of kyiv with a blank check.
“This agreement clearly indicates to Russia that the Trump administration is committed to a peace process focused on a free, sovereign and prosperous long -term Ukraine,” said Treasury Secretary Scott Besent, in a statement. “President Trump imagined this association between the American people and the Ukrainian people to show the commitment of both parties” with the lasting peace and prosperity in Ukraine. “
He added: “And to be clear, no state or person who finances or supplies the Russian war machine can benefit from the reconstruction of Ukraine.”
