Trump and Zelensky to sign mineral deal Friday

What we know about US-Ukraine minerals deal

Ukraine says it has agreed to the terms of a “preliminary” deal that would give the US access to its deposits of rare earth minerals.

Ukrainian President Voldymyr Zelensky said he hoped the initial agreement with the US “will lead to further deals”, but confirmed no American security guarantees have been agreed yet.

US President Donald Trump said a deal would help American taxpayers “get their money back” for aid sent to Ukraine throughout the war and give Kyiv “the right to fight on” against Russia.


Trump and Zelensky to sign deal Friday

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Ukraine and U.S. agree to framework for minerals deal, Ukrainian official says

Ukraine and the United States have agreed to a framework for an expansive minerals deal, according to a Ukrainian official and another person familiar with the matter. The White House has not confirmed the agreement and did not respond immediately to request for comment.

The Trump administration has pushed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to repay U.S. war aid with such an agreement, amid broader pressure to come to a peace deal with Russia.

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Zelensky Furious About Minerals-for-Security Deal as Ukraine Prepares To Sign Over Resources to America

Ukraine and America are on the “one-yard line” of a minerals-for-security deal despite Ukraine’s President Zelensky’s furious unleashing last week on Treasury Secretary Bessent about the size of the purported arrangement.

“It looks like we’re getting very close. The deal is being worked on and we’re I think getting very close to getting to an agreement where we get our money back over a period of time,” President Trump said Monday during a White House press briefing with French President Macron.

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Sending all 5 Canadian troops to Ukraine ‘on the table’ under possible peace deal: Trudeau

Justin Trudeau plays “statesman”

KYIV – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is not ruling out sending Canadian troops to Ukraine as part of a possible peace deal.

Trudeau is in Kyiv with a dozen other world leaders to mark the third anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

He began the day announcing that Canada will provide $5 billion in aid to Ukraine using funds from seized Russian assets.


An interesting history of NATO’s eastern expansion dating back to Clinton.

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Zelensky offers to step down as president in exchange for peace

Volodymyr Zelensky is willing to “immediately” step down as president of Ukraine in exchange for peace or the country being granted Nato membership.

On Sunday, the Ukrainian president told a press conference in Kyiv: “If there is peace for Ukraine, if you really need me to leave my post, I am ready…I can exchange it for Nato.”

Mr Zelensky added that he was focused on Ukraine’s security now, not in 20 years’ time, saying that it is not his “dream” to remain president for a decade.

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Trump official says Zelenskyy will sign US minerals deal ‘in the very short term’

The White House national security adviser, Mike Waltz, said on Friday that the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, was expected to sign a minerals agreement with the United States imminently, as part of broader negotiations to end the war with Russia.

“Here’s the bottom line: President Zelenskyy is going to sign that deal, and you will see that in the very short term,” Waltz said during remarks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).

The statement comes amid an increasingly public dispute between Zelenskyy and Donald Trump, with Waltz telling Fox News this week that the Ukrainian leader needed to “tone it down” and sign the proposed agreement.

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A Proposal for a Settlement to the Ukrainian War: Remember the Holodomor

My interest and concern regarding the war in Ukraine come naturally. My mother was born in Ukraine, and her story of harrowing flight from her village with her mother and brother in the middle of a snowstorm in the dead of night, pursued by a squad of White Russians and Ukrainian irregulars, remains fresh in my mind.

My father was born in the Russian oblast (administrative division) of Georgia near the border of South Ossetia, Stalin’s home region, and was the spitting image of the Russian tyrant — short, muscular, with a heavy mustache, a tendency to violence, and, like Stalin, played the piano. A racketeer who had the mayor of Montreal in his pay, he kept an enemies list and occasionally acted on it. In some sense, a domestic version of the Russia-Ukraine conflict occurred in my own home.


Watch this Rubio interview on recent encounters with Zelensky, he must be suicidal.

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The cruellest thing about Trump vs Zelensky? Trump’s right

And just like that, we are back in 2017. Donald Trump, the President of the United States, is posting ridiculous hyperbole on his socials and mouthing off from Mar-a-Lago, as he always has.

In the last 24 hours, however, the global political and media classes have gone back to gnashing their teeth and wailing in the way they did in Trump’s first term. It’s disgraceful! It’s sub-literate! He’s Vladimir Putin’s puppet! He’s reckless and utterly out of control! And that, of course, is the point.

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Trump ‘very frustrated’ and Zelensky must strike minerals deal, says adviser

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky needs to return to the negotiating table and strike a deal on US access to Ukraine’s critical minerals, White House national security adviser Mike Waltz has said.

On Wednesday, Zelensky rejected US demands for a share of its rare earth minerals – a “deal” Trump said would reflect the amount of aid the US had provided to Ukraine during its war with Russia.

The comments, made at a White House briefing on Thursday, overshadowed a meeting in Kyiv between Zelensky and Keith Kellogg, the US chief envoy to Ukraine.

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Musk: Zelensky is ‘despised’ by the Ukrainian people

Volodymyr Zelensky is “despised” by the Ukrainian people and is “feeding off the dead bodies” of his countrymen, Elon Musk has claimed.

Parroting criticisms voiced by Donald Trump, Mr Musk wrote on X that Mr Zelensky’s approval ratings had slumped and accused the Ukrainian leader of rigging online opinion polls and the media to boost his popularity, without citing evidence.

“If Zelensky was actually loved by the people of Ukraine, he would hold an election,” the tech billionaire said. “He knows he would lose in a landslide, despite having seized control of ALL Ukrainian media, so he cancelled the election.

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U.S. Doubles Down on Demand That Ukraine Sign Minerals Deal

The Trump administration is stepping up its push for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to hand mineral rights worth hundreds of billions of dollars to the U.S., after Zelensky’s initial rejection of the demand fueled President Trump’s escalating broadsides against Ukraine’s leader.

The White House called Zelensky’s refusal to sign a deal it proposed and his criticism of Trump unacceptable, a day after Zelensky said Trump is living in a “disinformation” bubble and Trump countered by calling Zelensky a dictator.

“They need to tone it down and take a hard look and sign that deal,” Trump’s national security adviser Mike Waltz said Thursday of Ukraine’s leadership on Fox News.

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North Korean captives reveal the true horror of fighting for Russia

Private Ri had the kind of dreams common to young men from educated families — to go to university, study and support his sick parents. Instead, he spent a decade as a conscript of the North Korean People’s Army.

Even as a skilled sniper in an elite unit, he endured extreme cold and harsh discipline. In ten years he did not once see his parents face to face. And, months from being discharged, he found himself sent to a place of unimaginable hardship — the front lines of Kursk, fighting alongside Russian soldiers against Ukrainian forces.

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JD Vance warns Zelensky he will regret ‘badmouthing’ Trump and condemns his ‘atrocious’ response to peace talks

Vice President J.D. Vance on Wednesday warned the Ukrainian president against attacking President Donald Trump, saying that ‘badmouthing’ him in public would only backfire.

Vance spoke to DailyMail.com hours after Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky accused Trump of living in a Russian-made ‘disinformation space.’

The extraordinary language on both sides comes at a critical time in the war between Ukraine and Russia, as Trump pushes for a speedy resolution.

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IT BEGINS: President Trump Starts Peeling Back the Zelenskyy Mask

It was inevitable. We have been together from the outset of the conversation where we admitted to ourselves that sooner or later the pretending was going to have to stop. Well, here we are.

President Donald Trump begins a very uncomfortable process to peel back the mask that Ukrainian President Zelenskyy represents.


If you haven’t read this consider having a look – How the U.S. Government Controls the Ukrainian Media

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How the U.S. Government Controls the Ukrainian Media

USAID funded the vast majority of ‘independent’ media in Ukraine. What American taxpayers don’t realize is that their money went to suppressing the truth.

The camera was rolling when chaos erupted. It was January 21, 2024, and an independent Ukrainian journalist named Ostap Stakhiv was livestreaming a call with Vasyl Pleskach, a man claiming he was being illegally detained by Ukraine’s infamous military conscription unit, the TCC. The agency has been accused of kidnapping men from the street and forcing them to the front lines. Those who resist have sometimes been tortured—and in several well-documented cases—killed.

In the middle of the interview, Stakhiv called the police to see if they would free Pleskach from the clutches of the TCC. Just then, with the police still on the line, a burly figure entered Vasyl’s frame, walked over to Pleskach, and struck him hard in the face. His phone tumbled to the ground, landing sideways, but still recording. “They’re beating him right now,” Stakhiv told the police, as Vasyl’s picture went haywire. “People are watching it live. They’re beating him as we speak. Go to my YouTube channel and see it for yourself.” Off-screen, Pleskach’s screams were audible for another minute before the line was disconnected.

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