Ukraine open to mineral deal

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Ukraine is not opposed to a mineral deal, as President Trump suggested, former Deputy Minister for European Integration of Ukraine Sergiy Petukhov says.  #Ukraine #Trump

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00:00The question of some sort of control over the Ukrainian minerals will be raised as for

00:10some reason that has become an important question for President Trump, and he stated this publicly.

00:15Whereas, I mean, Ukraine is not in principle opposed to some sort of agreement, but it

00:22definitely has to be an equitable agreement.

00:24And also the security guarantees are something that are necessary for any of those agreements

00:29to be effective, as most of the minerals that we're talking about are either right now controlled

00:35by Russia, the occupied territories, or really close to them.

00:38So again, I think the real conversation here is that, well, we're ready to give opportunities

00:45for U.S. businesses, but we really want to see what are the security guarantees, the

00:49real ones that U.S. is willing to provide for Ukraine against another Putin aggression.

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