Kyiv Independent:
“Ukraine and the United States have officially launched a joint Reconstruction Investment Fund as part of their minerals agreement, Economy Minister Yuliia Svyrydenko announced on May 23.
“The last step was a diplomatic note from the United States, which I personally received this morning from Julie S. Davis, the U.S. Chargé d’Affaires. The Fund is officially launched,” Svyrydenko wrote in a Facebook post.
The fund is a core component of the broader U.S.-Ukraine minerals agreement, signed on April 30.”
He said that the U.S. was a “superpower without any peer” for a brief time following the collapse of the Soviet Union, but the global stage has since changed. “The era of uncontested U.S. dominance is over. Today we face serious threats in China, Russia and other nations determined to beat us in every single domain—from spectrum to low earth orbit to supply chains to even our communication infrastructure,” Vance said.
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