🪨 USA – Ukraine finalizes trillion-dollar resource agreement!
🤝 On May 1, 2025, the USA and Ukraine completed the agreement after weeks of negotiation.
- The USA has the right to invest earliest in aluminum, oil, gas, and graphite mines in Ukraine.
- The two countries will jointly establish a reconstruction fund. The USA will take the first profits from this fund.
📞 Trump once told Zelensky at the Vatican:
This deal is good for both. Signing it is already a win.
⚔️ Prior to this, negotiations nearly fell apart.
- In February 2025, Zelenskiy visited the White House but left empty-handed after arguing with Trump and Vice President JD Vance.
- Trump demanded that Ukraine repay US aid with $500 billion in minerals. Ukraine refused.
💰 Now the joint fund will be divided as follows:
- Ukraine contributes 50% of revenue from future mines.
- The USA has the right to first benefits to cover the costs of aid.
- Both sides will manage it, but according to US law.
🧪 Ukraine's resources are extremely impressive:
- 19 million tons of graphite, lithium, titanium, uranium... in many mines
- Total estimated value from $3,000 to $15,000 billion
- However, extracting from one mine can take 18 years and cost up to $1 billion in infrastructure investment.
🚧 Challenges still remain:
- Many resource regions are occupied by Russia.
- Infrastructure is heavily damaged.
- Mining data still relies on Soviet-era information.
⚠️ The agreement does NOT guarantee security.
- Ukraine still needs the USA to share intelligence.
- The US Congress finds it difficult to allocate more funds, but Trump achieves a political victory after 100 days of his second term.
🦉 In summary:
✅ The USA secures the right to invest in Ukraine's resources earliest.
✅ Ukraine retains the right to share 50% of the profits, without needing to "repay debts".
✅ Minerals for the USA, land for Russia, and glory for Ukraine.