Posted on 05/02/2025 9:27:18 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Ukraine's parliament will hold a vote on May 8 to ratify a minerals deal signed with the United States earlier this week, a lawmaker said on Friday, while the prime minister suggested the agreement will help Kyiv with supplies of air defence systems.
Ukraine and the U.S. signed a deal on Wednesday that will give the United States preferential access to new investments in extraction of Ukraine's natural resources, and fund investment in Ukraine's reconstruction.
According to the deal, new military aid, if provided by Washington to Kyiv, could be scored as the U.S. contribution to the joint fund being set up under the accord.
"This agreement will allow us to better defend our country here and now - to better protect our skies thanks to American air defence systems," Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said at the governmental meeting.
Lawmaker Yaroslav Zheleznyak published the date of the upcoming ratification vote on the Telegram messaging app.
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Vance wasn’t in Vatican, where Trump and Zelensky met, and therefore couldn’t ruin it.
VE day. Interesting.
The United States and Ukraine come to an agreement.
Posters with Russian screen names most affected.
Just need to make a few more changes.
…..as Trump stated, Russia holds all the cards, St Z has none. They are in need of nothing from the West, sitting on trillions $$$ in natural resources, still bringing in billions $$$ from their huge energy sector…..all the while, the EU goes further into bankruptcy….easy to see how this ends.
Yet another chance for Lucy to pull the football away from Charlie Brown.
Unless the Ukraine Members of Parliament are getting ‘their percentage’ of this new grift , they will likely sink this ‘deal’.
And I hope they do, because the whole thing is a scam to rob American Taxpayers blind for another generation or so.
Yeah, two days before Ukraine's Galicia SS units surrendered to the allies.
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