Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky will visit Washington to sign a deal on rare earth minerals on Friday, Donald Trump has said.
The US president said Washington would get “a lot of money” back from Ukraine under the deal, but warned that he would be providing minimal guarantees to Ukraine for security from future Russian aggression under any peace deal.
“I’m not going to make security guarantees beyond very much - we’re going to have Europe do that because we’re talking about Europe is their next door neighbour,” Mr Trump told reporters.
Mr Zelensky has said that a framework economic deal with the US is ready – but security guarantees that Kyiv views as vital remain to be decided.