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Exclusive-US and Ukraine prepare to sign minerals deal on Tuesday, sources say (May it be so)
REUTERS ^ | March 4, 2025 at 2:04 PM | Erin Banco, Gram Slattery and Andrea Shalal

Posted on 03/04/2025 1:01:32 PM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's administration and Ukraine plan to sign the much-debated minerals deal following a disastrous Oval Office meeting Friday in which Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy was dismissed from the building, four people familiar with the situation said on Tuesday.

President Donald Trump has told his advisers that he wants to announce the agreement in his address to Congress Tuesday evening, three of the sources said, cautioning that the deal had yet to be signed and the situation could change.

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Ukraine’s presidential administration in Kyiv and the Ukrainian embassy in Washington did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

The deal was put on hold on Friday after a contentious Oval Office meeting between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy that resulted in the Ukrainian leader's swift departure from the White House. Zelenskiy had traveled to Washington to sign the deal.

In that meeting, Trump and Vice President JD Vance berated Zelenskiy, telling him he should thank the U.S. for its support rather than asking for additional aid in front of the U.S. media.

"You're gambling with World War III," Trump said.

U.S. officials have in recent days spoken to officials in Kyiv about signing the minerals deal despite Friday's blow-up, and urged Zelenskiy's advisers to convince the Ukrainian president to apologize openly to Trump, according to one of the people familiar with the matter.

On Tuesday, Zelenskiy posted on X that Ukraine was ready to sign the deal and calling the Oval Office meeting "regrettable." (Excerpt)

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

Read Psalm 22 for encouragement when everyone wants to take a swipe at you.. You’ll see there the animosity directed towards the Lord was overwhelming. Passerby’s hook their heads and mockingly shot out the lip. Shame, spittle, had covered his face. His siblings were estranged from him, etc.The disdain others felt towards God fell on Christ. (The bitterness directed towards you is actually the anger towards Zebrinsky so don’t take it personally. Please continue on the forum because too many other strong believers have left.)


21 posted on 03/04/2025 2:02:36 PM PST by EliRoom8 ( )
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To: usurper

Among other uses, the minerals deal is a carpet under which all sorts of problems can be swept


22 posted on 03/04/2025 2:04:15 PM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Where is ZORRO when California so desperately needs him?)
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com
Why do you they release a story on Tuesday and say its going to be signed on Tuesday. Wouldn't it be TODAY??
23 posted on 03/04/2025 2:12:47 PM PST by cdnerds (Vapingunderground)
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To: EliRoom8

“Read Psalm 22 for encouragement when everyone wants to take a swipe at you.. You’ll see there the animosity directed towards the Lord was overwhelming.”

Thank you
Your kind comment brought me to tears.


24 posted on 03/04/2025 2:13:08 PM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com (Pray for God 's intervention to stop Putin's invasion of Ukraine 🇺🇸)
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To: chief lee runamok

It’s a permanent USA tie to a corrupt nazi infested country. That’s nothing but a disaster.


25 posted on 03/04/2025 2:16:41 PM PST by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2025... RETURN OF THE JEDI...)
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

FOX (The Five) reportng this Reuters story is not true. 🤷‍♀️


26 posted on 03/04/2025 2:21:27 PM PST by Qiviut (Come! Live in the light! Shine with the joy and the love of the Lord!)
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To: IllumiNaughtyByNature

Jesus wept.

I bet the Russians said the same thing many times during Trump’s first term, for example in April 2018:

“Russia vows to shoot down any and all missiles fired at Syria. Get ready Russia, because they will be coming, nice and new and ‘smart!’,” Trump wrote on Twitter.

If a strong leader wants to do it, they’ll do it.

If you fill Ukraine with American firms using a mix of American and foreign contractors, there is not a shred of a deterrent to Putin if there aren’t clearly communicated security guarantees.

Zelensky is acutely aware that America’s mineral operation will be just as much fair game to Putin as Russia’s operations in Syria were fair game to Trump 7-8 years ago.


27 posted on 03/04/2025 2:26:13 PM PST by MalPearce ("You see, but you do not observe" - Holmes to Watson, A Scandal in Bohemia)
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To: DesertRhino
"It’s a permanent USA tie to a corrupt nazi infested country."

Financial ties can be easily severed. We now have a president
that won't hesitate to do so.

28 posted on 03/04/2025 2:27:01 PM PST by chief lee runamok ( Le Flâneur @Large)
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

>>>>bimbo: You used to start your UKE threads out with “Slava Ukraini” until Jim told you to stop.<<<<

>>>>”REVEREND”-mommy: False again<<<<

You make it so easy to prove you a liar.

Slava Ukraini means “Glory to Ukraine”. Why would Jim tell you to stop using it if you weren’t?

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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

Respectfully, this is America. Christian America. Our history does not include ‘GLory’ to anyone other than to God. All Glory to God.

Less propaganda would be appreciated.

43 posted on 12/2/2023, 11:36:05 PM by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.)
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

As I said, less propaganda would be appreciated.

48 posted on 12/2/2023, 9:50:52 PM by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.)
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https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4200866/posts?page=48#48


29 posted on 03/04/2025 2:38:57 PM PST by bimboeruption ((“Less propaganda would be appreciated.” JimRob 12-2-2023) )
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com
>>>>Thank you Your kind comment brought me to tears.<<<<

narcissistpatsy

30 posted on 03/04/2025 2:51:24 PM PST by bimboeruption ((“Less propaganda would be appreciated.” JimRob 12-2-2023) )
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To: foundedonpurpose

“The Z man makes more $ if he sells them multiple times.”

Amos n’ Andy 37: The Society Party
The Kingfish and Andy try to get their ladies to wear the same fur coat at the same time, to the same party.


31 posted on 03/04/2025 3:35:36 PM PST by rxh4n1
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To: PGR88

There’s quite a bit of minerals in Ukraine, even outside the Russian-controlled areas:

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-ukraines-mineral-resources

Can it be cost-effectively mined for hundreds of billions of dollars by American investors? I have no idea, but it’s not nonsense either. I’m sure the Russians would be happy to sell rare earths mined from their areas after a peace deal. If this can reduce China’s near-monopoly on that, well...


32 posted on 03/04/2025 4:46:26 PM PST by easychord
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To: bimboeruption
---- "You used to start your UKE propaganda threads out with "Slava Ukraini" until Jim told you to stop."

An assertion may be proven more than an assertion by going to this hotlink. Posted by "someone."

Update from Ukraine | I expect Russia to leave Kherson very soon | Glory to Ukraine!
10/15/2022, 12:26:12 AM · by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Youtube- https://t.me/pilotblog ^ | Oct 14, 2022 | Denys Davydov

Oct 14, 2022

33 posted on 03/04/2025 5:38:53 PM PST by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: EliRoom8

Oh please!
You might want to check her posting history before you comment.
And who is Zebrinsky ?


34 posted on 03/04/2025 5:40:29 PM PST by ANKE69 ( 🇺🇲 Let's MAGA 🇺🇲)
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To: ANKE69
It is interesting that this same story by Reuters was posted twice today?

Exclusive-US and Ukraine prepare to sign minerals deal on Tuesday, sources say (May it be so)
REUTERS ^ | March 4, 2025 at 2:04 PM | Erin Banco, Gram Slattery and Andrea Shalal
Posted on 3/4/2025, 4:01:32 PM by UMCRevMom@aol.com

Exclusive-US and Ukraine prepare to sign minerals deal on Tuesday, sources say
Reuters Yahoo News ^ | 3/4/2025 | Erin Banco, Gram Slattery and Andrea Shalal
Posted on 3/4/2025, 2:51:53 PM by marcusmaximus

Is it not also interesting that Psalm 22 is recommended on this thread, to comfort some over the 'slings and arrows' of political differences.

A revisit to Psalm 22 is recommended, as it surely does not address the heat of political debate:

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
Why are you so far from saving me,
so far from my cries of anguish?

Easy hotlink: Psalm 22

35 posted on 03/04/2025 6:03:42 PM PST by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: usurper

Like Greenland and the US.


36 posted on 03/04/2025 6:49:24 PM PST by curious7
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To: Worldtraveler once upon a time; UMCRevMom@aol.com

>>>>—— “You used to start your UKE propaganda threads out with “Slava Ukraini” until Jim told you to stop.”

An assertion may be proven more than an assertion by going to this hotlink. Posted by “someone.”

Update from Ukraine | I expect Russia to leave Kherson very soon | Glory to Ukraine!
10/15/2022, 12:26:12 AM · by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Youtube- https://t.me/pilotblog ^ | Oct 14, 2022 | Denys Davydov

Oct 14, 2022<<<<

____________________________________________

Yep, she used to start out many of her daily propaganda threads with a Memo From The Desk Of Volvo (whatever) Zelensky, President Of Ukraine, who frequently inserted the phrase “Slava Ukraine” in his pontifications.

“REVEREND”-mommy has an extremely short memory.


37 posted on 03/04/2025 7:15:58 PM PST by bimboeruption ((“Less propaganda would be appreciated.” JimRob 12-2-2023) )
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

Rooters is just propaganda.
Are they still paying you trolls?
please post less propaganda..
I hope this deal dies and never gets signed.
Any/All entanglements with this corrupt regime is bad.


38 posted on 03/05/2025 9:01:26 AM PST by CarolinaReaganFan
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To: CarolinaReaganFan

“Are they still paying you trolls?”

Good question:
Yevgeny Prigozhin ‘Glavset Russian company’, the Internet Research Agency, AKA known on Russian Internet slang as ‘Trolls from Olgino’ or ‘Kremlinbots’ produce online propaganda to influence operations on behalf of Russian business and political interests.

ARTICLE OF INTEREST:

Phoenix company used by Russians to operate social media ‘bot farm,’ feds say
By Morgan Loew and Cody Lillich
Jul. 29, 2024 at 10:55 PM EDT
https://www.azfamily.com/2024/07/30/phoenix-company-used-by-russians-operate-social-media-bot-farm-feds-say/

VIDEO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtnuBj55rmQ


39 posted on 03/05/2025 9:44:30 AM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com (Pray for God 's intervention to stop Putin's invasion of Ukraine 🇺🇸)
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To: All

REMINDER NOTICE:

Please knock-off the abusive posts, name-calling, taunting, trolling, stalking, flame-baiting, insults, religious insults, flames, threats, ill-wishes, harassing & annoying posts, unwanted posts & FReepmail, etc, etc, etc
Jim Robinson

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4166577/posts


40 posted on 03/05/2025 9:47:23 AM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com (Pray for God 's intervention to stop Putin's invasion of Ukraine 🇺🇸)
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