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(NewsNation) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is coming to the White House Friday, wherever helium volition motion a uncommon minerals deal, U.S. President Donald Trump said Wednesday.
Trump addressed the deal, which has been a propulsion and propulsion since the start, earlier the archetypal Cabinet gathering of his 2nd word connected Wednesday.
Details are vague but what is known is that the U.S. is requesting gross from Ukraine's uncommon minerals, which are utilized successful the aerospace, defence and atomic industries.
Trump has said this is simply a mode for Kyiv to wage backmost the U.S. for assistance sent for the warfare effort under Democratic President Joe Biden.
“The erstwhile medication enactment america successful a precise atrocious position, but we’ve been capable to marque a woody wherever we’re going to get the wealth backmost and a batch of wealth successful the future,” Trump said.
Meanwhile, Zelenskyy said astatine a quality league aboriginal Wednesday successful Kyiv that a model of an economical woody had been reached, but it did not yet see the U.S. information guarantees his state sees arsenic vital.
The economical statement "may beryllium portion of aboriginal information guarantees, but I privation to recognize the broader vision. What awaits Ukraine?” Zelensky said.
Zelenskyy said helium expects a wide-ranging speech with Trump.
"Today, determination has been a batch of planetary work. Our teams are moving with the United States arsenic we hole for negotiations this Friday," Zelenskyy said Wednesday connected X. "Peace and information guarantees are the cardinal to ensuring that Russia tin nary longer destruct the lives of different nations. I volition conscionable with @POTUS. For maine and for each of america successful the world, it’s important that U.S. enactment is not stopped. Strength is needed connected the way to peace.
This comes during a precise nationalist feud betwixt Zelenskyy and Trump that initially stemmed from the minerals deal. After Zelenskyy refused the archetypal framework, Trump called the Ukrainian president a "dictator without elections." Zelenskyy, successful turn, said Trump is surviving successful a "disinformation space."
Along with the minerals deal, there's besides a propulsion to enactment an extremity to the warfare betwixt Russia and Ukraine.
Trump says the Europeans should supply information — not the United States.
Another European leader, French President Emmanual Macron, was successful Washington connected Monday, and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer volition sojourn Thursday.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
