Zelensky’s selective loan demands expose a glaring double standard. While Europe’s aid comes with repayment strings, U.S. taxpayers are treated like an ATM. no accountability, no transparency.
Reuters — President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Ukraine would not accept any mineral rights deal that threatened its integration with the EU but said it was too early to pass judgment on a dramatically expanded minerals deal proposed by Washington.
The Ukrainian leader told reporters that Kyiv’s lawyers needed to review the draft before he could say more about the U.S. offer, a summary of which suggested the U.S. was demanding all Ukraine’s natural resources income for years.
He also said Kyiv would not recognise billions of dollars of past U.S. aid as loans, though he did not say whether such a demand featured in the latest draft version received by a top government official.
Zelenskiy did say, however, that the text was “entirely different” from an earlier framework agreement that he had been set to sign with Donald Trump before their talks descended into acrimony last month.
Zelenskiy in 2023: “Give us credit, and we will pay you back after the war.” Now he says he owes nothing.
🚨Alert: Zelensky slams Trump and the US over the terms in the Mineral Deal! Refuses to sign it again. Says Ukraine owes US ‘nothing!!’ Demands more money and weapons and all of Russia’s frozen assets immediately!! pic.twitter.com/yzWFZLDCt1
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