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It's a deal about investment, it's about mutually beneficial projects and we have to view this deal as part of the wider negotiating process and as such it's a success."
He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme
This agreement signals clearly to Russia that the Trump administration is committed to a peace process centred on a free, sovereign, and prosperous Ukraine over the long term,
said Bessent
There’s no requirement to sell everything to the US, or to channel all investment through the fund. The obligation is to give the fund fair market access to future projects,
wrote MylovanovAnd to be clear, no state or person who financed or supplied the Russian war machine will be allowed to benefit from the reconstruction of Ukraine."
He noted
It is truly an equal and beneficial international agreement on joint investments in the development and recovery of Ukraine between the US and Ukrainian governments."
Speaking on Wednesday, he ... He further saidOn behalf of the Government of Ukraine, I signed the Agreement on the Establishment of a United States-Ukraine Reconstruction Investment Fund. Together with the United States, we are creating the Fund that will attract global investment into our country."
In a post on X, Svyrydenko statedIt is the Ukrainian state that determines what and where to extract. Subsoil remains under Ukrainian ownership -- this is clearly established in the Agreement."
In the post, she statedThe American side may also count new, I emphasize new, military aid to Ukraine as a contribution to this fund."
He said
What it will probably ensure or certainly [what] Kyiv hopes it will ensure is that, if the present round of peace negotiations fails and Trump, as threatened, walks away, he will blame Russia, not Ukraine,
said Lieven
We’re expecting it to be discussed and ratified by Ukraine’s parliament later today,
said Al Jazeera’s Zein Basravi, reporting from Kyiv
Well, it could.”
Asked whether the deal would “inhibit” Russian leader Vladimir Putin, Trump saidNow they (Ukrainians) will have to pay for military supplies with the national wealth of a disappearing country,
he saidAnd although that’s not a security guarantee, it certainly ought to be a deterrent to future Russian aggression,
he saidTrump has broken the Kyiv regime to the point where they will have to pay for US aid with mineral resources,
he said
What is important for us is that this deal is not actually a debt obligation to the United States.”
Ukrainian MP Lisa Yasko stressed the fairness of the agreement, speaking to BBC she said
We discussed recent diplomatic efforts and the next steps to achieve a fair and lasting peace,
Sybiha said
Ultimately, this is an agreement of geopolitical convenience, which reflects American weakness: the U.S. needs Ukrainian minerals to counteract the Chinese blockade; in exchange, Ukraine is desperate for a continued flow of weapons,
Golson said
Economic investment for resource extraction is not a security guarantee, even if traded for weapons; as a matter of fact, these commitments could just as well be honored by whoever controls Ukrainian territory,
Eric Golson, an associate professor of economics at the University of Surrey, U.K, told NewsweekPolitically, it's a good deal for us,
Merezhko told NewsweekThanks to President Trump's tireless efforts to secure a lasting peace, I am glad to announce the signing of today's historic economic partnership agreement between the United States and Ukraine establishing the United States-Ukraine Reconstruction Investment Fund."
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Wednesday