President Trump refuses to guarantee Ukraine’s security after signing minerals deal
President Trump refuses to guarantee Ukraine’s security after signing minerals deal
Story by Jessica Kwong, Josh Milton
27/02/2025
트럼프 대통령은 광물 협정에 서명한 후 우크라이나의 안보 보장을 거부합니다.
스토리: 제시카 궝(Jessica Kwong), 조쉬 밀튼(Josh Milton)
President Trump refuses to guarantee Ukraine’s security after signing minerals deal
US President Donald Trump confirmed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will visit the White House to sign a major minerals deal but refused to guarantee Ukraine’s security. Ahead of Zelensky’s meeting with Trump set for Friday, the US president said: ‘I’m not going to make security guarantees beyond – very much. We’re going to have Europe do that.’ The deal will see Ukraine hand over billions of its mineral wealth and other resources to the US (Picture: FP/GETTY / REX)
트럼프 대통령은 광물 협정에 서명한 후 우크라이나의 안보 보장을 거부합니다.
도널드 트럼프 미국 대통령은 볼로디미르 젤렌스키 우크라이나 대통령이 백악관을 방문해 주요 광물 계약에 서명할 것이라고 확인했지만 우크라이나의 안보 보장은 거부했다. 금요일로 예정된 젤렌스키와 트럼프의 회담에 앞서, 트럼프 대통령은 "나는 그 이상의 안보 보장을 하지 않을 것이다. 우리는 유럽이 그렇게 하도록 할 것입니다." 이 거래로 우크라이나는 수십억 달러의 광물 자원과 기타 자원을 미국에 넘겨줄 것입니다 (사진: FP/GETTY / REX)
President Trump refuses to guarantee Ukraine’s security after signing minerals deal
Zelensky told CNN that the proposed deal is a ‘framework’ but added that it does not have ‘concrete steps on security guarantees’ because they need to be agreed upon with the US and Europe. Meanwhile, Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr, clearly sided with Russia amid peace negotiations that last week excluded Zelensky (Picture: Pool/Ukrainian Presidentia/Plane/Rex)
President Trump refuses to guarantee Ukraine’s security after signing minerals deal
‘I honestly can’t imagine that anyone in their right mind would be picking Ukraine as an ally when Russia is the other option,’ Trump Jr said in his Triggered podcast. ‘The US should have been sending weapons to Russia’ (Picture: Reuters)
President Trump refuses to guarantee Ukraine’s security after signing minerals deal
Zelensky hopes that the minerals deal will help his country gain security and Trump’s support. He expressed a desire to talk about the relationship with the US in the in-person meeting with Trump. ‘This deal could be a great success or it could pass quietly,’ Zelensky said on Wednesday. ‘And the big success depends on our conversation with President Trump’ (Picture: dia images via Getty Images)
President Trump refuses to guarantee Ukraine’s security after signing minerals deal
Under the agreement, Ukraine and the US would jointly create a Reconstruction Investment Fund. Ukraine would contribute 50% of all revenues from natural resource assets like rare earth minerals, natural gas and oil and hydrocarbons. Over the weekend, Trump stated that he is ‘trying to get the money back’ that the Biden administration sent to Ukraine to help fight Russia’s invasion and war. Zelensky said in a news conference in Kyiv that Ukraine pay back the money as part of the minerals deal. ‘I will not accept (even) 10 cents of debt repayment in this deal,’ he said. ‘Otherwise, it will be a precedent’ (Picture: AP)
President Trump refuses to guarantee Ukraine’s security after signing minerals deal
The meeting will come after sparring last week, in which Trump called Zelensky a ‘dictator’ and Ukraine’s leader shot back that Trump is ‘living in a disinformation space’ created by Russia. Ukraine controls more than 100 major deposits of rare minerals on top of oil and natural gas reserves, some of the largest in Europe, a pre-war assessment by the Kyiv School of Economics found (Picture: EPA)
President Trump refuses to guarantee Ukraine’s security after signing minerals deal
Trump’s reversal on America’s policies toward Ukraine have raised concerns that China could advance its territorial claim on Taiwan. Trump has also declined to comment on whether the US will not allow China to take Taiwan by force. He also said he has a great relationship with Chinese President Xi Jinping (Picture: Reuters)