President Donald Trump told reporters on Monday afternoon that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will travel to the United States this week to sign a new mineral deal with the United States.
“I hear that [Zelensky is] coming on Friday,” Trump said. “Certainly it’s OK with me if he’d like to.”
Ukrainian officials confirmed to multiple publications that Zelensky will meet with President Donald Trump on Friday to sign the deal at the White House.
The Financial Times reported that Ukraine agreed to the terms of the mineral deal that was proposed by the Trump administration, which it hopes bolsters its relationship with the United States, but only after the United States dropped its demand for the right to $500 billion in potential revenues from the minerals to repay the United States for the assistance it has received over the last three years.
“It’s a very big deal. It…
