The USA will not provide Ukraine with security guarantees and military assistance under the agreement on the extraction of natural resources. This follows from the new version of the agreement, a copy of which was reviewed by the New York Times (NYT). The newspaper’s sources familiar with the negotiations confirmed that this is the version the parties are preparing to sign in the near future, although some terms may change. “This is an economic agreement with Ukraine, where there will be no guarantees of future war aid. It will not include any commitment to stationing a U.S. contingent in the region,” a White House official told the NYT.
According to CNN’s interlocutor in Kyiv, Ukrainian authorities decided to postpone discussion of “problematic technical details,” including the issue of security guarantees for Ukraine, because the U.S. side is “very resistant” to it. Kiev hopes the topic will be raised at the upcoming meeting between US and Ukrainian presidents Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy. “Everything is ready from our side,” a Ukrainian source told CNN, emphasizing that Ukraine has “done everything possible to make the terms acceptable.”
