The preliminary agreement with the US is ready; There is no decisive / day on security guarantees

Zelenski is scheduled to travel to Washington on Friday, where the spoken can settle the future fate of the agreement.

The Ukrainian President explained that the draft agreement is the first step towards a comprehensive agreement to be ratified by the Ukrainian parliament.

Ukraine needs to know the position of the United States on future military support for Ukraine, Zelensky emphasized, expressing hope of a broad and meaningful conversation with US President Donald Trump in Washington.

« I want to coordinate my actions with the US, » Zelensky said. He announced that he wanted to know Trump whether the US plans to stop military assistance and, if it would be possible to buy weapons from the United States.

Zelensky also wants to know if Ukraine will be able to use frozen Russian assets for investing in weapons and whether Washington plans to lift sanctions against Russia.

Ukrainian Prime Minister Dennis Schmichal has previously confirmed that Ukraine and the US have reached a preliminary economic agreement that includes US access to Ukrainian rare earth minerals during the war.

After several days of talks, Ukraine and the United States will sign a preliminary agreement, but still have to work on the details of a full agreement, including US security guarantees that Kijiva officials consider to be very important, Schmihal said in Ukrainian public television.

Trump had demanded that Ukraine be granted access to its rare earth, thus compensating the billions of dollars in the military assistance it received during President Joe Biden.

The provisional agreement sets out the terms and conditions for the investment fund for the restoration of Ukraine, Schmihal revealed.