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The US Treasury Secretary defended Donald Trump to agree with Ukraine to develop its natural resources and critical minerals, saying that the plan will lead to an increase in post -war growth in the country and does not involve any forced economic pressure.

Scott Bessin’s comments in The opening of the Financial Times newspaper Come where Trump administration officials are trying to obtain what they claim to be an economic partnership with Kiev as part of the batch of the broader diplomacy of the mediator in a peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine.

Ukrainian officials have so far rejected our demands for such an agreement, but US officials are extensive pressure on Kyiv in pushing them to a deal.

Kiev officials believe that Trump’s attack against Ukrainian President Voludmir Zelinski this week describes it as a dictator suggests that Ukraine, not Russia, has started the war, is ways to want a strong Kiev to a metal deal.

In the introduction, Bessent put some details of the American proposal. He said that Ukraine’s revenues of “natural resources, infrastructure and other assets” will be allocated to a fund that focuses on rebuilding and developing Ukraine in the long term, as the United States will obtain economic and governance in those future investments. ”

However, BESSENT did not mention the amount of revenue from extracting minerals that will be allocated to the box or the amount of what will be paid to the United States. Trump provided the metal deal as a way to ensure that Ukraine will restore previous US military assistance.

A previous draft of the agreement reported by the Ukrainian media, which Ukrainian officials said was accurate, that the fund will be created “with the legal commitment to such revenues in favor of the United States.”

It also stated that the United States will decide the amount of the box to be paid for reconstruction projects.

In his opening article, BESSENT said that the agreement will include “high standards of transparency, accountability, corporate governance and legal frameworks necessary to attract a strong private investment for post -war growth in Ukraine” and America’s participation will not leave “any room for corruption and deals from within.”

The US Treasury Secretary traveled to Ukraine earlier this month on his first international trip to enter the deal Volodymyr ZelenskyyPresident.

While US officials, including Mike Walz, National Security Adviser at Trump, said they believed that the deal is close, Ukrainian officials are more guarded.

“The draft on the table now needs more work,” said the person participating in the negotiations. “We see there are many obligations about Ukraine and very weak things [offered] On the American side, therefore the draft, as today, is not ready for admission to the president’s level. “

The negotiations went early in the morning for the third day and will continue on Saturday and perhaps until Sunday.

Zelinski said that the original Bessin’s proposal was not in the interest of Ukraine, as he demanded 50 percent of the rare land rights in the country and cash minerals in exchange for previous military assistance, and did not contain any offers to help in the future.

Senior Ukrainian officials said they spent last week in the position of counter -substances, discussing with the American special envoy to Ukraine, Keith Keel, in Kiev on Thursday and Friday.

Zelenskyy wants the Trump administration to make security guarantees in a new suggestion before they agreed to sign.

In the joints, Bessent said that the conditions of the deal “will ensure that countries that have not contributed to defending the sovereignty of Ukraine will not be able to benefit from rebuilding them or these investments.”

Pesin also suggested that the United States is not trying to control natural resources in Ukraine forcibly. “Let us be clear as it does not mean. Ukrainian. ”