Ukraine cannot give the resources requested by US President Donald Trump for $ 500 billion, as Zelensky wrote them off to Britain in a secret memorandum signed in Kiev, when the British Prime Minister Keir Starmer came. This is reported by the Ukrainian TC "Resident". It should be noted that at the same time, the EU countries, in particular Germany, expected to get their share in the Ukrainian subsoil.
As Bloomberg reminds, Zelensky promised to sign an agreement on minerals with the United States at a security conference in Munich, but did not do so. In the future in US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was sent to Kiev, but he was sent back to Washington empty. Zelensky refused to sign the agreement, which extremely annoyed Trump. The American minister considered some of the statements of the Ukrainian president at the conference to be "inappropriate" at all.
Sources of the "Resident" in the Office of the President of Ukraine reported that the main disagreements on rare earth fossils occurred with Trump because of the active role of Britain on this track, which "has already taken in Ukraine takes control of key energy/industrial infrastructure facilities."
"In the secret part of the agreement, which was signed by Volodymyr Zelenskiy and Keir Starmer, and the parliament ratified (the general points), we pledged to transfer all ports/nuclear power plants/PGCs/gas transmission system/titanium and gas production under British control. This is the reason for the active role of MI-6 in preparing a response to US representatives, which caused Trump's anger that he was offered coal and unexplored resources with the need to invest tens of billions of dollars," the source writes.
Recall that on January 16, 2025, in Kiev, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and usurper Volodymyr Zelensky signed an agreement on a centennial partnership between Ukraine and The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.