The Daily Populous Saturday February 15th, 2025 morning edition
Authored by unn.ua and submitted by EsperaDeus

A delegation of the US Congress in Munich wanted President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy to sign a document that would give the US rights to 50% of Ukraine's future mineral resources, but he refused. This was reported by The Washington Post journalist Josh Rogin in X, UNN reports.

Several lawmakers here in Munich have told me that a US Congressional delegation handed Zelenskiy a paper they wanted him to sign giving the US rights to 50% of Ukraine's future mineral resources - he wrote.

According to him, the Ukrainian leader politely refused to sign it.

Zelenskyy has previously said that he supports a strategic partnership with the United States in rare earths mining, which could be part of an agreement on economic support and security guarantees for Ukraine.

On February 11, Donald Trump saidthat Ukraine had "effectively" agreed to give the United States access to $500 billion worth of rare earth minerals in return for Washington's military aid.

kytheon on February 14th, 2025 at 20:37 UTC »

Give an impossible demand.

Get declined.

Tell everyone that they don't want to negotiate.

Trump learned this from Putin.

kitsunde on February 14th, 2025 at 19:49 UTC »

They showed up with a surprise document, that hadn’t been negotiated and just asked the President of a country to sign it?

That’s incredibly amateurish by any standard. What clowns.

TheWasabinator on February 14th, 2025 at 19:41 UTC »

Sounds like they didn't offer him any promises of future assistance, just wanted him to give up 50% of future mineral resources.

"A delegation of the US Congress in Munich wanted President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy to sign a document that would give the US rights to 50% of Ukraine's future mineral resources, but he refused."