Ian Lovett
Appearances
Apple News Today
Why environmentalists are so worried about this lawsuit
They really want to keep the U.S. on the Ukrainian side, which seems much less clear since Trump took office. They want the U.S. to be invested in Ukraine economically and ideally also militarily.
Apple News Today
Why environmentalists are so worried about this lawsuit
There have been a lot of questions about what Trump's goal is exactly, whether it's just to end the conflict as fast as possible, even if that means Ukraine giving up not only territory, but perhaps other concessions to Russia. And Ukraine has been working with European allies to try to come up with a contingency plan, basically, to continue to be able to fight if the U.S. pulls its backing.
WSJ What’s News
Inside the U.S.-Ukraine Mineral-Rights Deal
So, the final deal is less ambitious, both for Ukraine and for the US, than I think the respective sides had potentially been hoping for. Last week, the US presented Zelenskyy with a draft that had some pretty aggressive economic demands in it. And the most notable of those was that the US would have...
WSJ What’s News
Inside the U.S.-Ukraine Mineral-Rights Deal
das Recht auf zukünftige Prozesse von Mineralversorgungsentwicklung bis zu 500 Billionen Dollar, aber es hatte keine Sicherheitswahrnehmung für die Ukraine. Diese Verhandlung, im Gegensatz dazu, hat wirklich keine dieser Dinge.
WSJ What’s News
Inside the U.S.-Ukraine Mineral-Rights Deal
Die ökonomischen Bedingungen sind nur, dass ein Fund eröffnet wird, der eine Teil der Prozesse von Mineralversorgungsentwicklung in der Ukraine in einen Fund einlegt, der dann in die Investitionen in die Ukraine geht. Ukraine will pay 50% into that fund and it's unclear exactly what kind of stake the US might have in that fund or in other kind of joint ownership projects.
WSJ What’s News
Inside the U.S.-Ukraine Mineral-Rights Deal
That is set to be hashed out in future agreements. But there are also no security guarantees in this deal for Ukraine.
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Inside the U.S.-Ukraine Mineral-Rights Deal
Part of the appeal from the Ukrainian side of doing some sort of mineral rights deal with the US is that they hoped it would keep the US invested in Ukraine's future and keeping the country sovereign under Ukrainian control in a way so that whatever economic benefit the US stood to gain, that they would want to make sure that they could get that.
WSJ What’s News
Inside the U.S.-Ukraine Mineral-Rights Deal
Ukraine is believed to have deposits of at least 20 of the 50 minerals that the US government has designated as critical. A lot of these have never been developed. Up to about 40% of them are currently in parts of the country that are under Russian control. And so access to those, you know, we don't know when, if ever Ukraine might get control of those areas back.
WSJ What’s News
Inside the U.S.-Ukraine Mineral-Rights Deal
Das war Foreign Correspondent Ian Leavitt in Kiew.