The Zelenskyy-Trump deal – podcast

After the heated alternate between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy within the Oval Office in February, the chance of a deal between the USA and Ukraine used to be unsure.

“Every week, it feels like we get a new position from Donald Trump,” Andrew Roth, the Guardian’s world affairs correspondent based totally in Washington DC, tells Michael Safi. “Sometimes we get multiple new positions from Donald Trump in a single morning. Nobody really believed that that was going to happen until the two names were on the dotted line.”

And but, ultimate week the international locations agreed a momentous minerals deal, agreeing to separate long run income of the minerals trade in Ukraine 50/50.

“We’re talking about natural gas, oil, possibly, but more importantly we’re talking about critical earth minerals. These include a couple of things, lithium, graphite, titanium. These are rare, important, critical minerals that are used in all kinds of industries around the world,” says Roth.

Does US financial pastime in Ukraine convey the rustic nearer to peace?

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