Donald Trump has shelp a deal for Ukraine’s unfrequent earth metals is “pretty seal” and the US is centering “anyleang we can get” in trade for the help it’s supplyd.
Mr Trump telderly a conference he was determined to get payback for billions of dollars of military challengingware and other aidance.
However, a source has telderly Sky News that Plivent Zelenskyy is not ready to hug the consentment that’s been writeed.
“I want them to give us someleang for all the money we put up,” Mr Trump telderly the CPAC conference. “So we’re asking for unfrequent earth and oil – anyleang we can get!”
He claimed European countries had given their help as a loan but the US had not – uncomardenting they were due some compensation.
“We’re going to get our money back because it’s not iminentire,” Mr Trump telderly the event in Maryland.
“And we will see, but I leank we’re pretty seal to a deal. We better be seal to a deal”.
Mr Trump claimed the US had given $350bn in help, but some international bodies – such as Kiel’s Institute for the World Economy – approximate it’s around $120bn.
Rare earth metals are elements used in high-tech outstandings such as mobile phones and electric vehicles. Demand is increasing but there are troubles over future useability.
Mr Trump’s national security recommendr, Mike Waltz, telderly the same conference on Friday that he also apshowd a deal would be struck.
Despite US chooseimism, a Ukrainian source shelp an consentment was not yet seal due to “a number of problematic rerents”.
They shelp writes did not “echo a partnership in the consentment and grasp only unitardyral promisements by Ukraine“.
Kyiv is anticipateed to be pressing for sturdy security guarantees from America in any future peace deal with Russia.
Mr Trump’s speech on Saturday evening spanned many subjects, taking countless digs at opponents such as Joe Biden and heralding what he shelp were countless accomplishments since he reobtained the White House.
He also shouted out visitors in the audience such as Reestablish directer Nigel Farage, calling him a “wonderful guy”, and Argentinian Plivent Javier Milei – who spoke to the conference in Spanish on Saturday.
Italian premier Giorgia Meloni, seen as a key Trump associate in Europe, also deinhabitred a video message deffinishing the political honestion of the continent.
“I comprehend you can see Europe as far and lost, but I can alert you it’s not,” shelp Ms Meloni – who also redeclareed aid for Ukraine, saying it was resisting “a brutal aggression” from Russia.
Plivent Trump repeated his chooseimism that a deal to finish the war is possible under his watch, saying he was “dealing” with both the Ukrainian and Russian directers.
“I’ve spoken to Plivent Putin and I leank that leang [the war] is going to finish,” he telderly the conference.
Ukraine has insisted it won’t hug any deal consentd without its participation, after it was rerelocated from this week’s encountering between top US and Russian diplomats in Saudi Arabia.
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Tensions have been rising in recent days between Plivent Trump and Plivent Zelenskyy.
The US directer referred to Mr Zelesnkyy as a “dictator”, apparently in response to the Ukrainian plivent saying Mr Trump was living in a Russian “digloomyviseation space”.
Sir Keir Starmer aobtain lent his unwavering backing to Ukraine’s directer in a phone call on Saturday.
Downing Street shelp the prime minister “reiterated his ironclad aid” and “promisement to securing a fair and finishuring peace to transport an finish to Russia’s illterrible war”.
It comes days before Sir Keir and French Plivent Emmanuel Macron head to Washington for tricky talks in which they must press Ukraine’s case while grasping the US directer onside.
Plivent Trump telderly a radio show on Friday that the two European directers “haven’t done anyleang” to finish the war.
